Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 79 (Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security) 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: 1,340 awards worth £11,224,554,543 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wolverhampton | £60,580,968 | 10 |
| Derby | £10,504,121 | 1 |
| Stevenage | £6,274,035 | 1 |
| Ards and North Down | £5,868,100 | 5 |
| Surrey Heath | £5,117,426 | 2 |
| Nottingham | £2,740,000 | 4 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £2,222,095 | 1 |
| Oxford | £1,763,732 | 1 |
| Carmarthenshire | £1,600,000 | 1 |
| Sheffield | £1,536,855 | 10 |
Based on the 8% of Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £7,382,303,217 | 771 |
| selective | £3,587,629,807 | 215 |
| direct | £249,862,819 | 303 |
| limited | £4,019,169 | 36 |
| Not recorded | £739,532 | 15 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £5,952,965,846 | 560 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £2,937,692,358 | 188 |
| Award under framework | £2,065,766,287 | 135 |
| Direct award | £241,519,785 | 178 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £12,831,827 | 97 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £8,343,034 | 125 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £4,019,169 | 36 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £739,532 | 15 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £676,706 | 6 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £11,175,227,495 | 1,335 |
| works | £40,000,000 | 1 |
| goods | £9,327,048 | 4 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 55 of 852 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.