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UK public-procurement awards in the last 12 months, by CPV category, competition type and threshold level.

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Tender awards — category overview

What kinds of public-procurement contracts were awarded in the last 12 months, in aggregate — by category, competition type and threshold level. Individual awards are on the search and browse page; this page is the high-level shape, not the row-level detail.

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 (see below), by design, not by omission.

Last 12 months

Since October 2025: 14,280 awards worth £140,404,027,653 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.

Currently open right now

Live tender opportunities aren't tracked for the UK yet — separately from the completed awards above, this would show still-open opportunities to bid on, not a record of what already happened.

Top categories by value

the UK tender awards by CPV category, last 12 months
CPV categoryValueContractsTypical award
Construction work£17,128,478,155422£2,820,351
Health and social work services£9,027,936,847864£995,077
Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment£8,420,942,75032£2,052,500
Information systems or technology strategic review and planning services£5,011,216,6675£5,000,000
Social work services with accommodation£3,916,401,468112£1,404,000
Pharmaceutical products£3,764,816,766104£1,000,000
Transport services (excl. Waste transport)£3,327,785,97199£316,628
Education and training services£2,586,269,502381£476,500
Sound or visual signalling apparatus£2,500,000,0001£2,500,000,000
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support£2,389,284,967276£617,634

A hollow bar marks a category built from 2 or fewer tenders — its total can be almost entirely one large framework agreement, not a genuine spending pattern across many contracts.

Top 10 of 2,040 categories by value, accounting for 42% of £138,170,858,259 in categorised awards.

Competition type

the UK tender awards by competition type, last 12 months
Competition typeValueContracts
open£100,674,601,4178,886
selective£30,815,424,0021,690
direct£8,660,371,2213,015
limited£107,117,378448
Not recorded£146,513,635241

Threshold level

the UK tender awards by threshold level, last 12 months
Threshold levelValueContracts
Open procedure£75,480,186,5216,429
Competitive flexible procedure£44,672,266,0561,995
Award under framework£8,798,608,317602
Direct award£7,776,624,3871,937
Call-off from a framework agreement£2,092,321,967200
Below threshold - without competition£873,269,3341,066
Below threshold - open competition£411,627,3461,186
Below threshold - unknown£107,189,640139
Below threshold - limited competition£106,607,536438
Below threshold - award under framework£19,032,631109
Not applicable£16,815,8354
Other - Not Specified£12,055,53610
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system£12,032,72032
Single tender action (below threshold)£10,477,50012
Not specified£3,609,88443
Other -£2,677,15933
Other - Further competition from a framework£2,250,0001
Restricted procedure (above threshold)£1,940,23511
Other - Direct Award via Framework£1,475,7287
Open procedure (above threshold)£1,155,9202
Competitive quotation (below threshold)£509,84310
Restricted procedure£432,7064
Open procedure (below threshold)£356,0005
Other - Direct Award£350,8532
Below threshold - by reference to dynamic market£65,0001
Other - Direct Award - Short Form£50,0001
Other - Direct Award off a non NH Framework£39,0001

Contract type

the UK tender awards by contract type, last 12 months
Contract typeValueContracts
services£90,327,099,5769,559
works£29,708,604,7561,590
goods£18,135,153,9272,697
Not recorded£2,233,169,393434

Single-bid contracts

In the last 12 months, 987 of 9,769 contracts with a recorded bid count (10%) 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.

Browse by council

All-time totals, one page per council.

Based on the 11% of all award rows in the last 12 months with a single council identified — the rest (national frameworks and non-council awarding bodies) are not attributed to one council and so are not reflected in any single page below.

Browse by category

All-time totals, one page per CPV category actually awarded against.

Figures published by UK Find a Tender Service and Contracts Finder (OCDS award notices). Accessed 2026-10-18.

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