Cambridge — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Cambridge 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: 19 awards worth £26,728,156 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 Cambridge — 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 Cambridge's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports facilities operation services | £19,922,361 | 1 | £19,922,361 |
| Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses | £4,800,000 | 1 | £4,800,000 |
| Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services | £798,000 | 3 | £399,000 |
| Equipment for swimming pools | £423,520 | 1 | £423,520 |
| Window-cleaning services | £179,000 | 1 | £179,000 |
| Business and management consultancy and related services | £128,445 | 2 | £64,222 |
| Community action programme | £94,414 | 1 | £94,414 |
| Recreational, cultural and sporting services | £86,226 | 1 | £86,226 |
| System quality assurance assessment and review services | £60,000 | 1 | £60,000 |
| Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment | £45,984 | 1 | £45,984 |
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 99% of £26,728,156 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £26,244,636 | 17 |
| direct | £483,520 | 2 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Competitive flexible procedure | £19,922,361 | 1 |
| Open procedure | £5,721,247 | 5 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £601,028 | 11 |
| Direct award | £423,520 | 1 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £60,000 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £21,504,636 | 17 |
| works | £4,800,000 | 1 |
| goods | £423,520 | 1 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 1 of 17 contracts with a recorded bid count (6%) 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.