Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 55 (Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services) 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: 211 awards worth £1,545,870,732 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Derby | £34,000,000 | 2 |
| Nottingham | £33,727,606 | 2 |
| Boston | £3,846,990 | 6 |
| Flintshire | £1,813,659 | 2 |
| County Durham | £1,000,000 | 13 |
| Westminster | £351,000 | 1 |
| Epsom and Ewell | £23,678 | 1 |
Based on the 13% of Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £1,127,052,861 | 154 |
| selective | £400,318,187 | 31 |
| direct | £16,166,482 | 22 |
| limited | £2,333,202 | 4 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £910,011,864 | 103 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £605,923,258 | 74 |
| Direct award | £15,174,100 | 12 |
| Award under framework | £11,131,895 | 4 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £2,333,202 | 4 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £992,382 | 10 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £304,031 | 4 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £1,545,870,732 | 211 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 12 of 182 contracts with a recorded bid count (7%) 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.