Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 71 (Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection 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: 765 awards worth £5,087,666,519 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Southampton | £10,000,000 | 1 |
| Westminster | £3,594,645 | 2 |
| Nottingham | £2,200,000 | 6 |
| Pembrokeshire | £2,091,121 | 3 |
| Bracknell Forest | £1,849,640 | 2 |
| Belfast | £1,736,159 | 1 |
| Coventry | £1,400,000 | 1 |
| Oxford | £1,194,301 | 1 |
| Gloucester | £988,201 | 2 |
| Swindon | £957,180 | 1 |
Based on the 10% of Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £3,357,112,638 | 493 |
| selective | £1,472,961,573 | 91 |
| direct | £253,602,981 | 134 |
| limited | £3,031,582 | 39 |
| Not recorded | £957,745 | 8 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £2,562,486,349 | 360 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £2,221,407,199 | 107 |
| Direct award | £247,697,216 | 90 |
| Award under framework | £41,174,864 | 35 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £5,905,765 | 44 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £3,713,350 | 65 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £3,031,582 | 39 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £1,292,448 | 17 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £957,745 | 8 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £5,085,764,895 | 762 |
| works | £1,311,544 | 2 |
| goods | £590,080 | 1 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 34 of 542 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.