Milton Keynes — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Milton Keynes 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 £120,994,770 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 Milton Keynes — 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 Milton Keynes's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting | £75,068,564 | 4 | £36,197,632 |
| Welfare services for children and young people | £17,800,000 | 1 | £17,800,000 |
| Sports facilities operation services | £15,026,929 | 1 | £15,026,929 |
| Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy | £6,309,160 | 1 | £6,309,160 |
| Training services | £1,615,950 | 1 | £1,615,950 |
| Social work services without accommodation | £1,311,557 | 1 | £1,311,557 |
| IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support | £1,100,000 | 1 | £1,100,000 |
| Public road transport services | £1,037,610 | 1 | £1,037,610 |
| Security services | £750,000 | 1 | £750,000 |
| Domestic appliances | £500,000 | 1 | £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 13 categories by value, accounting for 100% of £120,994,770 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £113,585,610 | 15 |
| direct | £7,409,160 | 2 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £113,585,610 | 15 |
| Direct award | £7,409,160 | 2 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £113,935,610 | 12 |
| goods | £7,059,160 | 5 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 3 of 15 contracts with a recorded bid count (20%) 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.