Education and training services — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 80 (Education and training 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: 619 awards worth £3,764,338,950 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Leicester | £26,227,500 | 9 |
| Liverpool | £10,912,263 | 4 |
| Wokingham | £7,666,780 | 1 |
| Sunderland | £6,165,000 | 3 |
| Rochdale | £1,867,907 | 1 |
| Milton Keynes | £1,615,950 | 1 |
| Flintshire | £1,570,000 | 1 |
| Bracknell Forest | £1,494,500 | 1 |
| Westminster | £1,050,000 | 1 |
| Salford | £1,015,502 | 2 |
Based on the 7% of Education and training services awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £2,725,506,214 | 445 |
| selective | £926,157,613 | 36 |
| direct | £87,638,172 | 124 |
| limited | £973,514 | 7 |
| Not recorded | £24,063,436 | 7 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £2,580,223,671 | 354 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £1,051,559,535 | 38 |
| Direct award | £53,058,051 | 64 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £34,580,122 | 60 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £24,063,436 | 7 |
| Award under framework | £13,994,920 | 22 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £5,779,164 | 66 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £973,514 | 7 |
| Below threshold - award under framework | £106,537 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £3,764,203,832 | 618 |
| goods | £135,118 | 1 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 53 of 465 contracts with a recorded bid count (11%) 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.