Food, beverages, tobacco and related products — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 15 (Food, beverages, tobacco and related products) in the last 12 months, in aggregate — by council, 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: 138 awards worth £295,212,607 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.
Top councils by value
| Council | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | £3,286,000 | 1 |
| Nottingham | £496,500 | 1 |
| Exeter | £416,666 | 1 |
| Leeds | £225,000 | 1 |
| Burnley | £66,000 | 1 |
Based on the 4% of Food, beverages, tobacco and related products awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £257,168,906 | 124 |
| selective | £30,718,490 | 5 |
| direct | £6,828,710 | 8 |
| Not recorded | £496,500 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £256,642,659 | 119 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £30,977,625 | 7 |
| Direct award | £6,516,666 | 2 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £496,500 | 1 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £312,044 | 6 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £160,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £107,112 | 2 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| goods | £226,684,311 | 92 |
| services | £68,528,296 | 46 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 6 of 128 contracts with a recorded bid count (5%) 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.
Figures published by UK Find a Tender Service and Contracts Finder (OCDS award notices). Accessed 2026-10-18.