Southampton — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Southampton 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: 23 awards worth £69,190,778 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 Southampton — 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 Southampton's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chargers | £30,000,000 | 1 | £30,000,000 |
| Health and social work services | £13,829,426 | 3 | £2,941,251 |
| Building surveying services | £10,000,000 | 1 | £10,000,000 |
| Concrete repair work | £6,000,000 | 1 | £6,000,000 |
| Accommodation services | £6,000,000 | 2 | £6,000,000 |
| Vehicles for refuse and sewage | £986,000 | 2 | £493,000 |
| Housing services | £795,000 | 2 | £397,500 |
| Computer equipment and supplies | £560,075 | 1 | £560,075 |
| Refurbishment work | £453,399 | 1 | £453,399 |
| Funeral and related services | £125,000 | 1 | £125,000 |
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 16 categories by value, accounting for 100% of £69,076,778 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £58,749,426 | 10 |
| selective | £8,674,075 | 3 |
| direct | £1,031,400 | 3 |
| limited | £577,545 | 4 |
| Not recorded | £158,332 | 3 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £48,474,426 | 7 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £18,000,000 | 2 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £577,545 | 4 |
| Award under framework | £560,075 | 1 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £538,400 | 2 |
| Direct award | £493,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £275,000 | 2 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £158,332 | 3 |
| Call-off from a framework agreement | £114,000 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £61,441,268 | 14 |
| works | £6,577,545 | 5 |
| goods | £1,057,965 | 3 |
| Not recorded | £114,000 | 1 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 0 of 15 contracts with a recorded bid count (0%) 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.