Belfast — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Belfast 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: 18 awards worth £15,842,659 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 Belfast — 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 Belfast's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Refuse and waste related services | £6,400,000 | 2 | £3,200,000 |
| Architectural design services | £1,736,159 | 1 | £1,736,159 |
| Time accounting or human resources software package | £1,261,400 | 1 | £1,261,400 |
| Refuse disposal and treatment | £900,000 | 1 | £900,000 |
| Event services | £875,000 | 2 | £437,500 |
| Bedding plants | £820,000 | 1 | £820,000 |
| Provision of services to the community | £760,000 | 1 | £760,000 |
| Ambulance services | £700,000 | 1 | £700,000 |
| Polythene waste and refuse sacks and bags | £600,000 | 1 | £600,000 |
| Installation services (except software) | £380,000 | 1 | £380,000 |
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 16 categories by value, accounting for 91% of £15,842,659 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £13,876,259 | 14 |
| direct | £1,586,400 | 2 |
| selective | £380,000 | 2 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £11,355,000 | 11 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £2,816,159 | 4 |
| Direct award | £1,586,400 | 2 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £85,100 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £14,422,659 | 16 |
| goods | £1,420,000 | 2 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 10 of 16 contracts with a recorded bid count (62%) 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.