Liverpool — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Liverpool 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: 55 awards worth £252,842,487 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 Liverpool — 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 Liverpool's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing services | £200,954,000 | 5 | £35,334,000 |
| Chargers | £12,000,000 | 1 | £12,000,000 |
| Education and training services | £10,912,263 | 4 | £2,422,500 |
| Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy | £4,965,449 | 1 | £4,965,449 |
| Community health services | £4,227,715 | 1 | £4,227,715 |
| Electoral forms | £4,000,000 | 1 | £4,000,000 |
| Site preparation work | £3,837,765 | 1 | £3,837,765 |
| Computer equipment and supplies | £2,310,055 | 6 | £315,869 |
| Health and social work services | £1,625,922 | 2 | £812,961 |
| Bins | £1,447,090 | 3 | £279,285 |
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 27 categories by value, accounting for 98% of £252,496,368 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £237,599,250 | 24 |
| selective | £7,977,369 | 8 |
| limited | £4,659,341 | 8 |
| direct | £1,285,456 | 5 |
| Not recorded | £1,321,071 | 10 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £235,357,737 | 20 |
| Award under framework | £7,489,794 | 5 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £4,659,341 | 8 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £1,255,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £986,513 | 3 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £974,952 | 8 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £820,456 | 4 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £487,574 | 3 |
| Direct award | £465,000 | 1 |
| Other - | £346,119 | 2 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £237,721,164 | 21 |
| goods | £9,650,801 | 21 |
| works | £5,124,403 | 11 |
| Not recorded | £346,119 | 2 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 5 of 32 contracts with a recorded bid count (16%) 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.