Northumberland — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Northumberland 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: 18 awards worth £9,166,340 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 Northumberland — 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 Northumberland's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health and social work services | £3,890,813 | 6 | £190,257 |
| Guidance services | £2,340,000 | 1 | £2,340,000 |
| Business and management consultancy services | £674,981 | 1 | £674,981 |
| Health services | £410,000 | 1 | £410,000 |
| Ophthalmologist services | £184,000 | 1 | £184,000 |
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 | £6,683,318 | 7 |
| selective | £1,224,326 | 5 |
| limited | £313,844 | 2 |
| direct | £184,000 | 1 |
| Not recorded | £760,853 | 3 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £3,883,318 | 6 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £2,800,000 | 1 |
| Call-off from a framework agreement | £1,147,986 | 4 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £410,000 | 1 |
| Other - Direct Award | £350,853 | 2 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £222,476 | 1 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £184,000 | 1 |
| Competitive quotation (below threshold) | £91,368 | 1 |
| Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system | £76,340 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £7,499,794 | 10 |
| Not recorded | £1,666,546 | 8 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 1 of 8 contracts with a recorded bid count (12%) 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.