South Tyneside — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by South Tyneside 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: 27 awards worth £36,626,088 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 South Tyneside — 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 South Tyneside's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health services | £24,764,849 | 2 | £12,382,424 |
| Repair and maintenance services | £5,000,000 | 1 | £5,000,000 |
| Surface work for highways | £4,600,000 | 2 | £2,300,000 |
| Entertainment services | £820,000 | 12 | £44,125 |
| Funeral and related services | £417,035 | 2 | £208,518 |
| Other community, social and personal services | £406,569 | 1 | £406,569 |
| Electrical wiring and fitting work | £254,297 | 1 | £254,297 |
| Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment | £140,000 | 1 | £140,000 |
| Insurance services | £86,553 | 1 | £86,553 |
| Artistic and literary creation and interpretation services | £60,000 | 1 | £60,000 |
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 13 categories by value, accounting for 100% of £36,626,088 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £31,120,238 | 17 |
| selective | £4,686,553 | 3 |
| limited | £454,297 | 3 |
| direct | £365,000 | 4 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £30,666,884 | 15 |
| Award under framework | £4,000,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £686,553 | 2 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £454,297 | 3 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £453,354 | 2 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £365,000 | 4 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £31,771,791 | 23 |
| works | £4,854,297 | 4 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 3 of 20 contracts with a recorded bid count (15%) 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.