IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 72 (IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support) 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: 667 awards worth £8,457,558,411 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Castle Point | £1,933,858 | 1 |
| Milton Keynes | £1,100,000 | 1 |
| Tower Hamlets | £920,000 | 1 |
| Westminster | £583,333 | 1 |
| Epsom and Ewell | £425,001 | 2 |
| Nottingham | £320,000 | 1 |
| Fareham | £214,412 | 1 |
| Denbighshire | £182,512 | 1 |
| North Tyneside | £120,035 | 3 |
| Leicester | £118,300 | 1 |
Based on the 3% of IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| selective | £6,516,239,243 | 88 |
| open | £1,384,214,437 | 216 |
| direct | £555,189,795 | 337 |
| limited | £1,042,751 | 14 |
| Not recorded | £872,186 | 12 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Award under framework | £5,681,393,870 | 46 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £1,419,736,879 | 90 |
| Open procedure | £797,517,269 | 145 |
| Direct award | £460,517,368 | 237 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £94,672,426 | 100 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £1,576,967 | 21 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £1,042,751 | 14 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £872,186 | 12 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £228,695 | 2 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £8,445,822,011 | 663 |
| goods | £11,736,401 | 4 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 16 of 256 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.