Manchester — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Manchester 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: 36 awards worth £42,809,981 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 Manchester — 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 Manchester's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social work services with accommodation | £12,099,802 | 7 | £1,077,228 |
| Health and social work services | £9,941,582 | 4 | £2,300,446 |
| Cleaning and sanitation services | £5,597,168 | 1 | £5,597,168 |
| Cleaning and polishing products | £2,400,000 | 1 | £2,400,000 |
| Insurance services | £2,319,587 | 5 | £170,068 |
| Social work and related services | £2,313,405 | 4 | £572,802 |
| Social work services | £1,710,000 | 2 | £855,000 |
| Road transport services | £1,465,608 | 1 | £1,465,608 |
| Housing services | £1,113,525 | 1 | £1,113,525 |
| Welfare services for children and young people | £929,405 | 1 | £929,405 |
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 93% of £42,809,981 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £40,639,153 | 32 |
| selective | £1,113,525 | 1 |
| direct | £1,057,303 | 3 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £40,639,153 | 32 |
| Award under framework | £1,113,525 | 1 |
| Direct award | £1,057,303 | 3 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £42,102,678 | 33 |
| goods | £707,303 | 3 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 2 of 32 contracts with a recorded bid count (6%) 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.