Public sector buyer
Bedford Borough Council
Bedford Borough Council has awarded 372 contracts worth £242,909,933 to 351 different suppliers between 2019 and 2030. Most of its award notices are recorded in East of England.
From award notices published on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. Contracts awarded through other e-tendering portals are not included, so this is a floor, not a total.
What they have awarded, by year
Our award history is not continuous. We hold notices published January 2021 to July 2022, and September 2022 to November 2022, and July 2023 to August 2026, and nothing published between December 2022 and June 2023 — a gap of 7 months. Any period overlapping that gap is understated here, and the change between periods is not a market trend.
- 2024£36,583,174 · 112
- 2025£100,635,915 · 134
- 2026£97,294,274 · 103
Years with no bar are years we hold no award notices for this buyer — which may mean they bought nothing, or that we do not have that period. We do not fill gaps in.
What they buy
- Health & social93 contracts
- Business services49 contracts
- Construction46 contracts
- Software20 contracts
- Vehicles19 contracts
- Architecture & engineering17 contracts
- Environmental & cleaning16 contracts
- Transport15 contracts
- Community services14 contracts
- CPV 7012 contracts
Who wins their work
- SMART CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES8 awards
- Canoe Trail Ltd4 awards
- Eastern Fostering Services Ltd4 awards
- Community Solutions UK Ltd (TRADING AS TRIO SUPPORTED LIVING)4 awards
- Beam Up Ltd4 awards
- NEC Software Solutions UK Limited3 awards
- Jade Security Services Limited t/a Pivotal3 awards
- BYTES SOFTWARE SERVICES LIMITED3 awards
- Lucion Services Limited3 awards
- Cambus Limited2 awards
How contested their contracts are
Of the awards that report it, the average was 6.9 bidders, and 21 were awarded to a single bidder — 66% of that sample.
Based on the 32 of 372 awards that publish a bidder count — buyers are not required to, and most do not.
How often they buy
Across the period we hold, Bedford Borough Council has awarded a contract roughly every 0.3 months on average.
That is an average across all their categories, not a schedule — and it is not a prediction of when any particular contract comes up. UK award notices almost never publish a contract end date, so nobody can build a reliable expiry calendar from open data. Why that is, and what works instead.
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