Exeter — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Exeter 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: 16 awards worth £7,996,851 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 Exeter — 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 Exeter's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction work | £1,995,908 | 1 | £1,995,908 |
| Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment | £1,860,000 | 1 | £1,860,000 |
| Social work services with accommodation | £1,677,578 | 9 | £211,634 |
| Electricity | £937,764 | 1 | £937,764 |
| Health and social work services | £780,000 | 1 | £780,000 |
| Beverages, tobacco and related products | £416,666 | 1 | £416,666 |
| Entertainment services | £190,000 | 1 | £190,000 |
| Construction work for bridges and tunnels, shafts and subways | £138,935 | 1 | £138,935 |
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 | £6,319,273 | 7 |
| direct | £1,677,578 | 9 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Below threshold - open competition | £3,072,607 | 3 |
| Open procedure | £2,466,666 | 3 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £968,834 | 6 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £780,000 | 1 |
| Direct award | £708,744 | 3 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £4,507,578 | 12 |
| works | £3,072,607 | 3 |
| goods | £416,666 | 1 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 1 of 7 contracts with a recorded bid count (14%) 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.