Sunderland — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Sunderland 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: 14 awards worth £32,069,639 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 Sunderland — 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 Sunderland's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical equipment for engines and vehicles | £10,440,749 | 1 | £10,440,749 |
| Construction work for commercial buildings, warehouses and industrial buildings, buildings relating to transport | £10,053,324 | 1 | £10,053,324 |
| Education and training services | £6,165,000 | 3 | £1,462,500 |
| Travel management services | £2,310,000 | 1 | £2,310,000 |
| Forklift trucks | £1,261,747 | 2 | £630,874 |
| Repair and maintenance services of catering equipment | £461,547 | 1 | £461,547 |
| Counselling services | £450,000 | 1 | £450,000 |
| Catering equipment | £400,000 | 1 | £400,000 |
| Legal services | £300,000 | 1 | £300,000 |
| Land rental services | £180,120 | 1 | £180,120 |
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 £32,069,639 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £19,318,890 | 12 |
| direct | £10,440,749 | 1 |
| selective | £2,310,000 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £18,868,890 | 11 |
| Direct award | £10,440,749 | 1 |
| Award under framework | £2,310,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £450,000 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £20,707,416 | 10 |
| works | £10,100,476 | 2 |
| goods | £1,261,747 | 2 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 1 of 12 contracts with a recorded bid count (8%) 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.