Sheffield — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Sheffield 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: 54 awards worth £122,290,313 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 Sheffield — 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 Sheffield's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sporting services | £88,890,000 | 1 | £88,890,000 |
| Health and social work services | £11,918,618 | 6 | £651,772 |
| Floor coverings | £6,406,696 | 2 | £3,203,348 |
| Tree-clearing services | £5,000,000 | 1 | £5,000,000 |
| Public road transport services | £1,684,000 | 13 | £3,000 |
| Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories | £1,649,231 | 2 | £824,616 |
| Traffic monitoring services | £1,500,000 | 1 | £1,500,000 |
| Job search services | £976,855 | 8 | £488,428 |
| Insurance services | £866,700 | 3 | £235,000 |
| Psychiatrist or psychologist services | £485,340 | 1 | £485,340 |
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 98% of £122,290,313 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| direct | £89,674,185 | 5 |
| open | £32,616,128 | 49 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Direct award | £89,646,984 | 3 |
| Open procedure | £31,370,017 | 39 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £1,246,111 | 10 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £27,201 | 2 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £113,868,386 | 49 |
| goods | £8,421,927 | 5 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 5 of 49 contracts with a recorded bid count (10%) 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.