Printed matter and related products — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 22 (Printed matter 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: 84 awards worth £385,684,991 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 | £4,000,000 | 2 |
| Liverpool | £4,000,000 | 1 |
| Coventry | £2,485,000 | 2 |
| Carmarthenshire | £1,600,000 | 2 |
| Ards and North Down | £325,000 | 1 |
| County Durham | £200,000 | 1 |
| Tunbridge Wells | £41,740 | 1 |
Based on the 12% of Printed matter and related products awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £347,698,845 | 62 |
| selective | £35,030,123 | 6 |
| direct | £2,670,283 | 13 |
| limited | £285,740 | 3 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £346,464,606 | 57 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £34,384,636 | 6 |
| Direct award | £2,496,724 | 7 |
| Award under framework | £1,430,122 | 2 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £449,604 | 3 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £285,740 | 3 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £173,559 | 6 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| goods | £308,246,627 | 56 |
| services | £77,438,363 | 28 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 2 of 69 contracts with a recorded bid count (3%) 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.