Nottingham — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Nottingham 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: 61 awards worth £222,996,827 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 Nottingham — 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 Nottingham's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services | £49,720,000 | 5 | £9,500,000 |
| Letting services of short-stay furnished accommodation | £33,727,606 | 2 | £16,863,803 |
| Health and social work services | £27,438,849 | 2 | £13,719,424 |
| Construction work for highways, roads | £25,000,000 | 1 | £25,000,000 |
| Electricity distribution and related services | £15,000,000 | 1 | £15,000,000 |
| Surface work for highways | £13,000,000 | 5 | £1,500,000 |
| Heating equipment | £12,225,000 | 1 | £12,225,000 |
| Tyres for heavy/light-duty vehicles | £7,200,000 | 1 | £7,200,000 |
| Switches | £5,575,000 | 1 | £5,575,000 |
| Mechanical installations | £4,500,000 | 1 | £4,500,000 |
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 36 categories by value, accounting for 87% of £222,640,827 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £214,788,216 | 58 |
| selective | £6,512,634 | 1 |
| direct | £1,199,477 | 1 |
| Not recorded | £496,500 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £199,032,216 | 43 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £8,320,000 | 2 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £7,080,000 | 8 |
| Award under framework | £6,512,634 | 1 |
| Direct award | £1,199,477 | 1 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £496,500 | 1 |
| Open procedure (below threshold) | £356,000 | 5 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £138,671,660 | 29 |
| works | £51,340,000 | 17 |
| goods | £32,629,167 | 10 |
| Not recorded | £356,000 | 5 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 5 of 53 contracts with a recorded bid count (9%) 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.