Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 31 (Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting) 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: 193 awards worth £6,503,680,563 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Milton Keynes | £75,068,564 | 4 |
| Tower Hamlets | £75,000,000 | 1 |
| Southampton | £30,000,000 | 1 |
| Swindon | £21,300,000 | 1 |
| Liverpool | £12,000,000 | 1 |
| Sunderland | £10,440,749 | 1 |
| Nottingham | £8,575,000 | 2 |
| North East Lincolnshire | £8,000,000 | 1 |
| County Durham | £6,000,000 | 1 |
| Coventry | £1,876,323 | 1 |
Based on the 12% of Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £6,033,184,622 | 124 |
| selective | £428,928,932 | 19 |
| direct | £41,031,787 | 38 |
| limited | £535,223 | 12 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £5,141,300,679 | 92 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £1,301,535,370 | 30 |
| Direct award | £28,476,575 | 25 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £12,555,212 | 13 |
| Award under framework | £10,460,003 | 5 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £8,817,502 | 16 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £535,223 | 12 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £5,541,197,337 | 72 |
| works | £771,699,188 | 13 |
| goods | £190,784,038 | 108 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 9 of 144 contracts with a recorded bid count (6%) 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.