Derby — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Derby in the last 12 months, in aggregate — by category, competition type and threshold level. Individual awards are on the filtered search and browse page.
Supplier identity is never aggregated on this page — a winning bidder's name is often a person's name, not a company's, so it follows the same registered-access rule as the browse page's supplier search.
Last 12 months
Since October 2025: 29 awards worth £235,742,669 combined.
Framework agreements can dominate a year's total: A large share of awarded value comes from framework agreements, whose published value is often the framework's ceiling — the maximum that can be drawn down over its full, often multi-year, lifetime — rather than money spent in the year it was awarded. Checked directly against real data: a single council's own largest year can be dominated by framework agreements alone. A single large framework can make one year look far larger than its neighbours without that reflecting actual annual spend.
This total covers only awards recorded specifically against Derby — nationally, just 11% of award rows in the last 12 months carry a single council attribution at all (national frameworks and non-council awarding bodies account for the rest), so Derby's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health and social work services | £184,592,820 | 8 | £11,692,250 |
| Hotel accommodation services | £34,000,000 | 2 | £34,000,000 |
| Security services | £10,504,121 | 1 | £10,504,121 |
| Public security services | £1,075,000 | 1 | £1,075,000 |
| Fire-prevention services | £768,000 | 1 | £768,000 |
| Refuse and waste related services | £750,000 | 1 | £750,000 |
| Repair and maintenance services of electrical distribution equipment | £730,000 | 1 | £730,000 |
| Training services | £672,000 | 1 | £672,000 |
| Repair and maintenance services of electrical building installations | £580,000 | 1 | £580,000 |
| Lifts | £495,000 | 3 | £130,000 |
A hollow bar marks a category built from 2 or fewer tenders — its total can be almost entirely one large framework agreement, not a genuine spending pattern across many contracts.
Top 10 of 12 categories by value, accounting for 100% of £234,266,940 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £233,236,940 | 18 |
| direct | £930,000 | 2 |
| selective | £100,000 | 2 |
| Not recorded | £1,475,728 | 7 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £232,741,940 | 15 |
| Other - Direct Award via Framework | £1,475,728 | 7 |
| Direct award | £730,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £495,000 | 3 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £200,000 | 1 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £100,000 | 2 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £233,771,940 | 19 |
| works | £495,000 | 3 |
| Not recorded | £1,475,728 | 7 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 1 of 20 contracts with a recorded bid count (5%) had only one bid. See these contracts → The single-bid-rate ranking shows a different figure for the same measure — it uses a fixed calendar year, not the trailing 12 months shown here. Nationally, over the same trailing 12 months, 10% of contracts had only one bid.
Figures published by UK Find a Tender Service and Contracts Finder (OCDS award notices). Accessed 2026-10-18.