Other community, social and personal services — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded under CPV category 98 (Other community, social and personal 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: 189 awards worth £335,865,951 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Westminster | £20,820,846 | 1 |
| Southampton | £6,125,000 | 3 |
| Leeds | £3,566,291 | 1 |
| South Tyneside | £853,604 | 4 |
| Nottingham | £833,333 | 1 |
| Watford | £800,000 | 2 |
| Gloucester | £789,038 | 1 |
| Leicester | £634,257 | 4 |
| Pendle | £404,000 | 1 |
| Belfast | £320,000 | 1 |
Based on the 13% of Other community, social and personal services awards with a single council identified — the rest are not attributed to one council.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £236,508,166 | 135 |
| selective | £60,336,283 | 8 |
| direct | £36,255,987 | 43 |
| limited | £2,600,515 | 2 |
| Not recorded | £165,000 | 1 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £211,055,871 | 100 |
| Competitive flexible procedure | £77,934,564 | 14 |
| Direct award | £34,970,252 | 27 |
| Award under framework | £4,000,000 | 1 |
| Below threshold - open competition | £3,854,014 | 28 |
| Below threshold - limited competition | £2,600,515 | 2 |
| Below threshold - without competition | £1,285,735 | 16 |
| Below threshold - unknown | £165,000 | 1 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| services | £335,225,951 | 188 |
| goods | £640,000 | 1 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 40 of 142 contracts with a recorded bid count (28%) 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.