Reading — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Reading 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: 17 awards worth £271,203,936 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 Reading — 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 Reading's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provision of services to the community | £142,100,000 | 2 | £71,050,000 |
| Social work services with accommodation | £97,759,232 | 2 | £48,879,616 |
| Social work services without accommodation | £10,335,000 | 5 | £375,000 |
| Cleaning services | £8,636,031 | 1 | £8,636,031 |
| Installation of doors and windows and related components | £4,200,000 | 1 | £4,200,000 |
| Residential property renting or leasing services | £3,479,000 | 1 | £3,479,000 |
| Surface work for roads | £1,789,273 | 1 | £1,789,273 |
| Installation services of fire protection equipment | £1,480,000 | 1 | £1,480,000 |
| Services provided by medical laboratories | £785,400 | 2 | £392,700 |
| Printing and related services | £640,000 | 1 | £640,000 |
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.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £270,563,936 | 16 |
| direct | £640,000 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £268,774,663 | 15 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £1,789,273 | 1 |
| Direct award | £640,000 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £265,214,663 | 15 |
| works | £5,989,273 | 2 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 1 of 16 contracts with a recorded bid count (6%) 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.