Salford — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Salford 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 £50,394,620 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 Salford — 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 Salford's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health and social work services | £47,683,960 | 2 | £23,841,980 |
| Building surveying services | £643,675 | 1 | £643,675 |
| Social work and related services | £622,712 | 1 | £622,712 |
| Higher education services | £566,839 | 1 | £566,839 |
| Primary education services | £448,664 | 1 | £448,664 |
| Provision of services to the community | £135,000 | 1 | £135,000 |
| Kitchen equipment | £81,200 | 1 | £81,200 |
| Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security | £79,200 | 1 | £79,200 |
| Recreational, cultural and sporting services | £46,448 | 1 | £46,448 |
| Event services | £44,992 | 1 | £44,992 |
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 £50,394,620 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £47,344,538 | 8 |
| direct | £2,963,160 | 2 |
| limited | £86,922 | 2 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £46,459,178 | 4 |
| Direct award | £2,883,960 | 1 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £885,360 | 4 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £86,922 | 2 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £79,200 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £50,394,620 | 12 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 2 of 10 contracts with a recorded bid count (20%) 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.