Carmarthenshire — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Carmarthenshire 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: 38 awards worth £9,131,338 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 Carmarthenshire — 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 Carmarthenshire's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hire of industrial vehicles with driver | £4,000,000 | 18 | £4,000,000 |
| Health and social work services | £1,858,255 | 2 | £929,128 |
| Printing and related services | £1,600,000 | 1 | £1,600,000 |
| Personal care products | £560,000 | 2 | £280,000 |
| Pollution-monitoring devices | £381,200 | 1 | £381,200 |
| Repair and maintenance services of machinery | £300,000 | 1 | £300,000 |
| Education and training services | £200,000 | 3 | £200,000 |
| Special education services | £144,000 | 1 | £144,000 |
| Insurance services | £87,883 | 1 | £87,883 |
| Hire of mowers or agricultural equipment with operator | £0 | 1 | £0 |
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 15 categories by value, accounting for 100% of £9,131,338 in categorised awards.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £7,443,455 | 31 |
| selective | £1,687,883 | 7 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £7,099,455 | 27 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £1,600,000 | 6 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £344,000 | 4 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £87,883 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £6,590,138 | 29 |
| goods | £2,541,200 | 9 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 0 of 37 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.