Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 35 (Security, fire-fighting, police and defence 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: 136 awards worth £2,287,486,542 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 | £3,400,000 | 14 |
| South Tyneside | £140,000 | 1 |
| Dartford | £19,500 | 1 |
Based on the 12% of Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £1,639,306,107 | 87 |
| direct | £576,957,487 | 35 |
| selective | £70,882,644 | 8 |
| limited | £340,305 | 6 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £1,556,995,460 | 72 |
| Direct award | £576,309,240 | 26 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £151,870,968 | 15 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £907,379 | 4 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £648,246 | 9 |
| Award under framework | £342,896 | 1 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £340,305 | 6 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £72,048 | 3 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| goods | £2,041,298,382 | 107 |
| services | £245,289,806 | 24 |
| works | £898,355 | 5 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 6 of 97 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.