Canterbury — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Canterbury 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: 25 awards worth £11,282,702 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 Canterbury — 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 Canterbury's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building construction work | £3,669,989 | 1 | £3,669,989 |
| Repair and maintenance services | £2,350,000 | 2 | £1,175,000 |
| Coastal-defence works | £1,214,903 | 3 | £124,719 |
| Emergency lighting equipment | £780,000 | 1 | £780,000 |
| Structural works | £670,948 | 1 | £670,948 |
| Playground equipment | £473,590 | 2 | £236,795 |
| Fire-prevention installation works | £425,085 | 1 | £425,085 |
| Balcony work | £329,441 | 1 | £329,441 |
| Tyres for heavy/light-duty vehicles | £327,415 | 1 | £327,415 |
| Waste and rubbish containers and bins | £284,661 | 1 | £284,661 |
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 19 categories by value, accounting for 93% of £11,282,702 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| limited | £7,792,413 | 10 |
| open | £3,177,875 | 10 |
| direct | £106,134 | 3 |
| Not recorded | £206,280 | 2 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Below threshold - limited competition | £7,792,413 | 10 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £1,785,799 | 7 |
| Open procedure | £1,392,076 | 3 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £206,280 | 2 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £106,134 | 3 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| works | £7,393,408 | 15 |
| services | £3,561,879 | 9 |
| goods | £327,415 | 1 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 1 of 20 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.