Leeds — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Leeds 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: 49 awards worth £1,646,670,352 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 Leeds — 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 Leeds's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction work | £1,518,500,000 | 3 | £600,000,000 |
| Devices for the elderly | £55,730,528 | 6 | £55,730,528 |
| Grounds maintenance services | £17,500,000 | 1 | £17,500,000 |
| Health and social work services | £14,490,931 | 3 | £2,182,698 |
| Fire-prevention installation works | £10,000,000 | 1 | £10,000,000 |
| Health services | £9,680,000 | 1 | £9,680,000 |
| Tree-maintenance services | £4,500,000 | 1 | £4,500,000 |
| Other community, social and personal services | £3,566,291 | 1 | £3,566,291 |
| Surveillance and security systems and devices | £3,400,000 | 14 | £130,000 |
| Construction work for chair lifts | £2,680,000 | 2 | £1,340,000 |
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 21 categories by value, accounting for 100% of £1,646,670,352 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £1,624,202,540 | 43 |
| selective | £19,187,217 | 2 |
| direct | £3,280,595 | 4 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £1,620,573,540 | 35 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £18,500,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £3,629,000 | 8 |
| Direct award | £3,107,067 | 2 |
| Award under framework | £687,217 | 1 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £173,528 | 2 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| works | £1,533,254,620 | 8 |
| goods | £59,993,385 | 24 |
| services | £53,422,347 | 17 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 1 of 44 contracts with a recorded bid count (2%) 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.