Leicester — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Leicester 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: 83 awards worth £72,952,920 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 Leicester — 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 Leicester's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education and training services | £26,227,500 | 9 | £3,671,850 |
| Construction work | £25,655,483 | 4 | £12,500,000 |
| Software package and information systems | £8,915,920 | 11 | £134,653 |
| Health and social work services | £2,771,113 | 4 | £570,044 |
| Risk or hazard assessment other than for construction | £1,500,000 | 1 | £1,500,000 |
| Public security services | £1,076,980 | 1 | £1,076,980 |
| Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation | £900,566 | 3 | £298,342 |
| Gully cleaning and emptying services | £799,489 | 1 | £799,489 |
| Weed-killing services | £514,134 | 1 | £514,134 |
| Auction services | £475,000 | 1 | £475,000 |
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 21 categories by value, accounting for 96% of £71,536,404 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £62,631,653 | 55 |
| direct | £9,344,439 | 7 |
| Not recorded | £976,828 | 21 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £60,212,208 | 39 |
| Direct award | £8,942,601 | 5 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £2,419,445 | 16 |
| Other - | £672,497 | 20 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £401,838 | 2 |
| Not applicable | £304,331 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £35,562,965 | 29 |
| works | £25,655,483 | 4 |
| goods | £10,317,956 | 17 |
| Not recorded | £1,416,517 | 33 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 3 of 44 contracts with a recorded bid count (7%) 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.