Research and development services and related consultancy services — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 73 (Research and development services and related consultancy 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: 231 awards worth £349,784,779 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Colchester | £166,000 | 1 |
| Newport | £61,960 | 2 |
| Coventry | £56,250 | 2 |
Based on the 2% of Research and development services and related consultancy services awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £232,408,916 | 123 |
| selective | £77,324,536 | 24 |
| direct | £39,542,227 | 72 |
| limited | £493,099 | 11 |
| Not recorded | £16,000 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £225,207,374 | 81 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £79,090,188 | 25 |
| Direct award | £38,311,779 | 45 |
| Award under framework | £3,337,071 | 7 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £1,629,189 | 30 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £1,230,448 | 27 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £493,099 | 11 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £404,630 | 3 |
| Below threshold - by reference to dynamic market | £65,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £16,000 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £349,784,779 | 231 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 16 of 137 contracts with a recorded bid count (12%) 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.