Dartford — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Dartford 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 £5,804,160 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 Dartford — 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 Dartford's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction work | £4,022,349 | 1 | £4,022,349 |
| Miscellaneous repair and maintenance services | £988,000 | 1 | £988,000 |
| Accommodation, building and window cleaning services | £260,000 | 1 | £260,000 |
| Security software package | £176,693 | 1 | £176,693 |
| Quantity surveying services | £89,056 | 1 | £89,056 |
| Installation of doors and windows and related components | £70,020 | 2 | £35,010 |
| Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy | £60,976 | 1 | £60,976 |
| Graffiti removal services | £56,250 | 1 | £56,250 |
| Heating works | £49,396 | 1 | £49,396 |
| Surveillance and security systems and devices | £19,500 | 1 | £19,500 |
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 11 categories by value, accounting for 100% of £5,804,160 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £5,127,575 | 4 |
| selective | £349,056 | 2 |
| direct | £176,693 | 1 |
| limited | £150,837 | 5 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Below threshold - open competition | £4,139,575 | 3 |
| Open procedure | £988,000 | 1 |
| Award under framework | £260,000 | 1 |
| Direct award | £176,693 | 1 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £150,837 | 5 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £89,056 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| works | £4,214,661 | 6 |
| services | £1,393,306 | 4 |
| goods | £196,193 | 2 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 0 of 9 contracts with a recorded bid count (0%) 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.