Gateshead — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Gateshead 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: 13 awards worth £18,516,740 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 Gateshead — 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 Gateshead's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health and social work services | £12,382,623 | 5 | £1,209,090 |
| Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses | £3,384,468 | 1 | £3,384,468 |
| Social services | £1,022,500 | 1 | £1,022,500 |
| Bicycles | £462,450 | 1 | £462,450 |
| Insurance services | £417,958 | 1 | £417,958 |
| Security services | £376,754 | 1 | £376,754 |
| Audio-visual equipment | £240,000 | 1 | £240,000 |
| Accommodation, building and window cleaning services | £183,165 | 1 | £183,165 |
| Urban planning services | £46,822 | 1 | £46,822 |
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.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £18,051,960 | 11 |
| selective | £417,958 | 1 |
| limited | £46,822 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £17,651,960 | 10 |
| Award under framework | £417,958 | 1 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £400,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £46,822 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £14,892,272 | 11 |
| works | £3,384,468 | 1 |
| goods | £240,000 | 1 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 3 of 12 contracts with a recorded bid count (25%) 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.