Postal and telecommunications services — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 64 (Postal and telecommunications 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: 62 awards worth £259,626,296 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Denbighshire | £559,117 | 1 |
| Flintshire | £210,600 | 1 |
Based on the 3% of Postal and telecommunications services awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| direct | £180,376,245 | 29 |
| open | £77,566,841 | 23 |
| selective | £1,611,859 | 9 |
| Not recorded | £71,350 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Direct award | £179,603,688 | 24 |
| Open procedure | £73,587,340 | 18 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £4,081,600 | 6 |
| Award under framework | £1,325,328 | 5 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £772,557 | 5 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £165,155 | 2 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £71,350 | 1 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £19,277 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £259,626,296 | 62 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 2 of 26 contracts with a recorded bid count (8%) 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.