Coventry — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Coventry 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: 60 awards worth £80,438,974 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 Coventry — 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 Coventry's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social work and related services | £24,980,896 | 7 | £3,660,000 |
| Taxi services | £14,100,000 | 1 | £14,100,000 |
| Earthmoving and excavating machinery, and associated parts | £12,200,000 | 21 | £150,000 |
| Building construction work | £8,501,853 | 1 | £8,501,853 |
| Cycles with auxiliary motors | £5,500,000 | 1 | £5,500,000 |
| Electoral forms | £2,485,000 | 2 | £2,485,000 |
| Postage-franking machines | £2,112,000 | 1 | £2,112,000 |
| Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work | £1,920,490 | 1 | £1,920,490 |
| Electric motors | £1,876,323 | 1 | £1,876,323 |
| Electrical services | £1,400,000 | 1 | £1,400,000 |
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 29 categories by value, accounting for 93% of £80,350,232 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £65,326,127 | 46 |
| direct | £14,702,419 | 12 |
| selective | £410,428 | 2 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £54,903,784 | 44 |
| Direct award | £14,357,169 | 7 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £8,501,853 | 1 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £1,920,490 | 1 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £345,250 | 5 |
| Award under framework | £321,686 | 1 |
| Call-off from a framework agreement | £88,742 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £49,282,607 | 38 |
| works | £21,148,666 | 14 |
| goods | £9,918,959 | 7 |
| Not recorded | £88,742 | 1 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 0 of 46 contracts with a recorded bid count (0%) 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.