Recreational, cultural and sporting services — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 92 (Recreational, cultural and sporting 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: 85 awards worth £775,313,320 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sheffield | £88,890,000 | 1 |
| Cambridge | £20,008,587 | 2 |
| Milton Keynes | £15,026,929 | 1 |
| Tower Hamlets | £4,729,080 | 2 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £4,680,990 | 1 |
| Warrington | £1,050,000 | 1 |
| Lisburn and Castlereagh | £943,460 | 1 |
| South Tyneside | £880,000 | 13 |
| Bracknell Forest | £475,000 | 1 |
| Belfast | £380,000 | 2 |
Based on the 38% of Recreational, cultural and sporting services awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £373,753,264 | 51 |
| direct | £317,822,034 | 24 |
| selective | £83,360,000 | 4 |
| limited | £342,022 | 5 |
| Not recorded | £36,000 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Direct award | £317,300,079 | 17 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £199,936,504 | 8 |
| Open procedure | £175,975,699 | 34 |
| Award under framework | £80,000,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £1,201,061 | 12 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £521,955 | 7 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £342,022 | 5 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £36,000 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £775,313,320 | 85 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 5 of 59 contracts with a recorded bid count (8%) 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.