Maidstone — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Maidstone 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: 24 awards worth £46,821,960 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 Maidstone — 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 Maidstone's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction work | £37,559,402 | 2 | £18,779,701 |
| Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses | £7,245,000 | 1 | £7,245,000 |
| Park and playground equipment | £600,000 | 1 | £600,000 |
| Community health services | £325,000 | 1 | £325,000 |
| Survey services | £188,991 | 3 | £31,061 |
| Burglar and fire alarms | £140,485 | 1 | £140,485 |
| Construction consultancy services | £135,166 | 2 | £67,583 |
| Transport systems consultancy services | £121,863 | 2 | £60,932 |
| Museum services | £100,000 | 1 | £100,000 |
| Environmental issues consultancy services | £84,220 | 1 | £84,220 |
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 17 categories by value, accounting for 99% of £46,821,960 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £46,821,960 | 24 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Competitive flexible procedure | £37,454,402 | 1 |
| Open procedure | £8,318,355 | 15 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £1,049,203 | 8 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| works | £45,379,392 | 4 |
| services | £1,442,568 | 20 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 2 of 24 contracts with a recorded bid count (8%) 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.