Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 33 (Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care 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: 603 awards worth £6,629,737,605 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Leeds | £55,730,528 | 6 |
| Tower Hamlets | £6,322,896 | 1 |
| Westminster | £4,453,322 | 1 |
| Swale | £1,795,974 | 2 |
| Nottingham | £1,254,167 | 1 |
| Carmarthenshire | £560,000 | 2 |
| Pembrokeshire | £300,000 | 2 |
Based on the 2% of Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £6,194,458,238 | 349 |
| selective | £251,411,898 | 21 |
| direct | £183,529,644 | 226 |
| limited | £337,825 | 7 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £6,105,586,041 | 312 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £274,361,396 | 28 |
| Direct award | £180,520,777 | 191 |
| Award under framework | £61,424,898 | 18 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £4,422,802 | 11 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £3,008,868 | 35 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £337,825 | 7 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £75,000 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| goods | £6,011,356,779 | 555 |
| services | £486,285,026 | 42 |
| works | £132,095,801 | 6 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 67 of 357 contracts with a recorded bid count (19%) 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.