Plymouth — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Plymouth 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: 51 awards worth £566,474,844 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 Plymouth — 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 Plymouth's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health services | £500,000,000 | 40 | £500,000,000 |
| Social work and related services | £41,723,706 | 6 | £6,318,702 |
| Health and social work services | £23,000,000 | 2 | £11,500,000 |
| Computer equipment and supplies | £1,050,545 | 1 | £1,050,545 |
| Public road transport services | £457,350 | 1 | £457,350 |
| Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying water | £243,243 | 1 | £243,243 |
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.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £566,231,601 | 50 |
| selective | £243,243 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £558,194,197 | 49 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £8,280,647 | 2 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £565,181,056 | 49 |
| goods | £1,293,788 | 2 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 1 of 51 contracts with a recorded bid count (2%) 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.