Southend-on-Sea — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Southend-on-Sea 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: 8 awards worth £4,428,363 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 Southend-on-Sea — 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 Southend-on-Sea's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Variable message signs | £3,000,000 | 1 | £3,000,000 |
| Repair and maintenance services | £450,000 | 1 | £450,000 |
| Cooling and ventilation equipment | £354,528 | 1 | £354,528 |
| Parking services | £280,000 | 1 | £280,000 |
| Social work and related services | £153,076 | 1 | £153,076 |
| Urban planning and landscape architectural services | £110,000 | 1 | £110,000 |
| Social work services with accommodation | £51,259 | 1 | £51,259 |
| Environmental impact assessment for construction | £29,500 | 1 | £29,500 |
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 | £4,237,604 | 5 |
| direct | £161,259 | 2 |
| limited | £29,500 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Competitive flexible procedure | £3,000,000 | 1 |
| Open procedure | £1,084,528 | 3 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £161,259 | 2 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £153,076 | 1 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £29,500 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £4,428,363 | 8 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 1 of 6 contracts with a recorded bid count (17%) 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.