Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 32 (Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment) 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: 107 awards worth £8,737,325,829 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dacorum | £25,000,000 | 1 |
| Exeter | £1,860,000 | 1 |
| Tower Hamlets | £1,212,694 | 2 |
| Coventry | £326,198 | 1 |
| Worcester | £241,563 | 1 |
| Gateshead | £240,000 | 1 |
| Epsom and Ewell | £171,788 | 1 |
| Cambridge | £40,000 | 1 |
Based on the 8% of Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £8,523,022,281 | 75 |
| direct | £207,482,994 | 24 |
| selective | £5,711,196 | 5 |
| limited | £1,016,267 | 2 |
| Not recorded | £93,091 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £8,509,971,267 | 52 |
| Direct award | £204,364,512 | 13 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £16,593,515 | 11 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £3,118,482 | 11 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £1,734,519 | 15 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £1,016,267 | 2 |
| Award under framework | £434,176 | 2 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £93,091 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £8,622,464,341 | 48 |
| goods | £114,139,999 | 56 |
| works | £721,489 | 3 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 3 of 74 contracts with a recorded bid count (4%) 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.