Buyer profile · Local authority

Worcester City Council tenders and contracts

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Tenders published
11
About one every 33 days
Contracts awarded
14
To 13 different suppliers
Value awarded
£981k
13 contracts, frameworks excluded
Typical contract
£67k
Median value awarded
Open now
1
1 contracts end in 90 days

Figures cover in the last 12 months, from notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.

Open tenders

  1. Museum and Art Gallery - Gallery Refurbishment

    West MidlandsConstruction, Building maintenance and repairs

    Closing soon4 days leftSmall contract

    £170kestimated

Coming up

Pipeline, market engagement and planned procurement notices: early warning of tenders to come.

  1. £10kestimated
  2. £10kestimated

When it goes to market

Tender notices published each month. Active in 7 of 12 months.

What it buys

Procurements in the last 12 months, by trade.

What its tenders ask for

Accreditations and conditions its notices mention in the last 12 months. Always check the tender documents.

  1. Site visit11%
    In 3 of 28 notices

Who it buys from

Suppliers awarded contracts in the last 12 months, by value awarded (frameworks excluded).

  1. 1 contract
  2. 1 contract
  3. 1 contract
  4. 1 contract
  5. 1 contract
  6. 1 contract
  7. 1 contract
  8. 2 contracts

How it buys

How much of its work was open to any supplier.

  • Advertised openly (any supplier could bid)55%
  • Framework call-off (only suppliers on the framework)5%
  • Invited quotes (the buyer chose whom to ask)18%
  • Direct award (no competition)23%
Based on 22 procurements.

Scorecard

How we score

How Worcester City Council has bought over the last 12 months, compared with similar buyers.

Time to bid
28 days
Shorter than 67% of local authorities
Based on 11 advertised tenders
Advertised openly
55%
Lower than 60% of local authorities
Based on 22 procurements
Won by small firms
71%
Higher than 54% of local authorities
Based on 14 winning suppliers
Split into lots
0%
Lower than 76% of local authorities
Based on 11 advertised tenders
Direct awards
23%
Higher than 54% of local authorities
Based on 22 procurements
Cancelled
0%
About the same as most local authorities
Based on 11 tenders

Compared with other local authorities

Time to bid, 283 local authorities
Show as a table
RangeBuyers
0–5 days0
5–10 days0
10–15 days0
15–20 days4
20–25 days11
25–30 days120
30–35 days119
35–40 days19
40–45 days7
45–50 days1
50–55 days1
55–60 days1
60+ days0
Advertised openly, 365 local authorities
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RangeBuyers
0–10%13
10–20%11
20–30%25
30–40%32
40–50%36
50–60%48
60–70%47
70–80%33
80–90%44
90–100%76
Won by small firms, 324 local authorities
Show as a table
RangeBuyers
0–10%0
10–20%0
20–30%7
30–40%6
40–50%27
50–60%41
60–70%76
70–80%80
80–90%55
90–100%32

Each column is a group of local authorities with similar figures. The coloured column holds Worcester City Council.See the full scoreboard

Contracts ending in the next 90 days

Contracts like these are often re-tendered. Knowing early gives you time to prepare.

ContractCurrent supplierValueEnds
Scala Arts Venue, Worcester - Theatre EquipmentGlantre Engineering Limited£70k1 Nov 2026

8 more contracts end in the next 12 months.

Recent contract awards