Wolverhampton — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Wolverhampton 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: 44 awards worth £340,242,802 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 Wolverhampton — 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 Wolverhampton's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads | £150,000,000 | 4 | £31,250,000 |
| Health and social work services | £79,559,906 | 15 | £735,000 |
| Legal advisory and representation services | £60,000,000 | 9 | £4,334,000 |
| Building construction work | £13,195,823 | 1 | £13,195,823 |
| Social work services | £12,971,000 | 2 | £6,485,500 |
| Social work and related services | £7,837,522 | 2 | £3,918,761 |
| Bathrooms construction work | £6,469,333 | 3 | £6,469,333 |
| Building installation work | £3,676,491 | 1 | £3,676,491 |
| Non-hazardous refuse and waste treatment and disposal services | £3,355,000 | 1 | £3,355,000 |
| Company health services | £888,064 | 1 | £888,064 |
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 15 categories by value, accounting for 99% of £340,242,802 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £335,937,648 | 41 |
| selective | £4,257,458 | 2 |
| direct | £47,695 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £322,401,825 | 39 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £13,195,823 | 1 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £3,676,491 | 1 |
| Award under framework | £580,968 | 1 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £340,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £47,695 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| works | £173,341,647 | 9 |
| services | £166,780,460 | 33 |
| goods | £120,695 | 2 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 7 of 41 contracts with a recorded bid count (17%) 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.