Tunbridge Wells — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Tunbridge Wells 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: 7 awards worth £217,251 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 Tunbridge Wells — 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 Tunbridge Wells's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software package and information systems | £46,225 | 1 | £46,225 |
| River regulation and flood control works | £43,545 | 1 | £43,545 |
| Account books | £41,740 | 1 | £41,740 |
| Construction work for water projects | £34,935 | 1 | £34,935 |
| Resurfacing works | £33,024 | 1 | £33,024 |
| Urban planning and landscape architectural services | £17,782 | 1 | £17,782 |
| Building services | £0 | 1 | £0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| limited | £120,989 | 3 |
| open | £96,262 | 4 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Below threshold - limited competition | £120,989 | 3 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £96,262 | 3 |
| Open procedure | £0 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| works | £111,504 | 3 |
| services | £105,747 | 4 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 2 of 7 contracts with a recorded bid count (29%) 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.