County Durham — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by County Durham 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: 92 awards worth £2,107,073,311 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 County Durham — 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 County Durham's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Financial leasing services | £1,760,000,000 | 4 | £550,000,000 |
| Health and social work services | £317,984,705 | 36 | £1,080,054 |
| Hotel meeting and conference services | £13,000,000 | 13 | £1,000,000 |
| Burglar and fire alarms | £6,000,000 | 1 | £6,000,000 |
| Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages | £1,600,000 | 1 | £1,600,000 |
| Industry specific software package | £1,488,000 | 3 | £450,000 |
| Pension fund management services | £1,200,000 | 1 | £1,200,000 |
| Cleaning services | £1,068,000 | 1 | £1,068,000 |
| Construction work | £791,895 | 8 | £395,948 |
| Residential health facilities services | £750,000 | 1 | £750,000 |
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 20 categories by value, accounting for 100% of £2,107,073,311 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £2,102,547,438 | 83 |
| selective | £3,522,356 | 5 |
| direct | £926,621 | 3 |
| limited | £76,895 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £2,096,368,582 | 66 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £4,763,857 | 5 |
| Award under framework | £3,400,000 | 4 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £1,415,000 | 12 |
| Direct award | £926,621 | 3 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £122,356 | 1 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £76,895 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £2,102,063,238 | 76 |
| goods | £4,218,177 | 8 |
| works | £791,895 | 8 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 4 of 84 contracts with a recorded bid count (5%) 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.