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Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 75 (Administration, defence and social security services) in the last 12 months, by local authority, competition type and threshold level.

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Administration, defence and social security services — tender awards

Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 75 (Administration, defence and social security 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.

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Last 12 months

Since October 2025: 166 awards worth £377,721,414 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

Administration, defence and social security services awards by council, last 12 months
CouncilValueContracts
Reading£142,100,0002
Watford£7,580,0005
Derby£1,943,0004
Great Yarmouth£1,783,0303
Birmingham£1,746,5201
Ards and North Down£1,469,5861
Leicester£1,076,9801
Belfast£760,0001
Lisburn and Castlereagh£189,2051
Salford£135,0001

Based on the 14% of Administration, defence and social security services awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.

Competition type

Administration, defence and social security services tender awards by competition type, last 12 months
Competition typeValueContracts
open£339,963,854121
direct£32,052,47328
selective£5,421,18013
limited£173,8832
Not recorded£110,0242

Threshold level

Administration, defence and social security services tender awards by threshold level, last 12 months
Threshold levelValueContracts
Open procedure£329,661,08499
Direct award£31,181,70422
Competitive flexible procedure£11,306,87315
Below threshold - open competition£2,955,35118
Award under framework£1,461,7252
Below threshold - without competition£870,7696
Below threshold - limited competition£173,8832
Below threshold - unknown£110,0242

Contract type

Administration, defence and social security services tender awards by contract type, last 12 months
Contract typeValueContracts
services£377,721,414166

Single-bid contracts

In the last 12 months, 24 of 133 contracts with a recorded bid count (18%) 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.

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