Tower Hamlets — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Tower Hamlets 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: 20 awards worth £254,776,091 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 Tower Hamlets — 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 Tower Hamlets's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction work | £78,800,000 | 3 | £17,000,000 |
| Electrical equipment for engines and vehicles | £75,000,000 | 1 | £75,000,000 |
| Site preparation work | £47,840,000 | 1 | £47,840,000 |
| Public utilities | £15,000,000 | 1 | £15,000,000 |
| Other building completion work | £11,300,000 | 1 | £11,300,000 |
| Health and social work services | £10,151,421 | 4 | £1,747,710 |
| Medical aids | £6,322,896 | 1 | £6,322,896 |
| Recreational, cultural and sporting services | £4,729,080 | 2 | £2,364,540 |
| Support services for land transport | £2,750,000 | 2 | £1,375,000 |
| Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment | £920,000 | 1 | £920,000 |
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 13 categories by value, accounting for 99% of £254,776,091 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £188,577,195 | 16 |
| direct | £66,198,896 | 4 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £126,777,195 | 14 |
| Direct award | £65,462,896 | 3 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £60,000,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £1,800,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £736,000 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| works | £137,940,000 | 5 |
| services | £116,543,397 | 14 |
| goods | £292,694 | 1 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 0 of 16 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.