Bedford — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Bedford 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: 12 awards worth £14,013,094 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 Bedford — 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 Bedford's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property management services of real estate on a fee or contract basis | £7,000,000 | 1 | £7,000,000 |
| Tree-clearing services | £2,373,187 | 4 | £686,186 |
| Housing services | £2,034,250 | 2 | £1,017,125 |
| Health and social work services | £1,957,720 | 1 | £1,957,720 |
| Personnel-training services | £289,000 | 1 | £289,000 |
| Legal services | £240,000 | 2 | £240,000 |
| Training services | £118,938 | 1 | £118,938 |
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 | £14,013,094 | 12 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £14,013,094 | 12 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £14,013,094 | 12 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 1 of 12 contracts with a recorded bid count (8%) 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.