Birmingham — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Birmingham 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: 24 awards worth £434,414,852 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 Birmingham — 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 Birmingham's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drainage and surface works | £200,000,000 | 1 | £200,000,000 |
| Highway maintenance work | £120,000,000 | 1 | £120,000,000 |
| Hospital and related services | £95,000,000 | 1 | £95,000,000 |
| Repair and maintenance services | £4,313,798 | 2 | £2,156,899 |
| School meals | £3,286,000 | 1 | £3,286,000 |
| Printed matter and related products | £3,250,000 | 1 | £3,250,000 |
| Environmental security control services | £3,000,000 | 1 | £3,000,000 |
| Benefit services | £1,746,520 | 1 | £1,746,520 |
| Management-related services | £1,200,000 | 1 | £1,200,000 |
| Electoral forms | £750,000 | 1 | £750,000 |
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 22 categories by value, accounting for 100% of £434,414,852 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £308,680,057 | 19 |
| direct | £121,200,000 | 2 |
| selective | £4,534,795 | 3 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £308,031,887 | 13 |
| Direct award | £121,200,000 | 2 |
| Award under framework | £4,534,795 | 3 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £534,566 | 2 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £113,604 | 4 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £313,781,556 | 20 |
| works | £120,000,000 | 1 |
| goods | £633,296 | 3 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 2 of 19 contracts with a recorded bid count (11%) 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.