How we count values

Not every pound figure on a tender means the same thing, so we label each one by what it actually is. A concession ceiling is not committed spend, a framework maximum is not one supplier's revenue, and a pre-tender estimate is not a final award. Here is what each label means.

What each label means

• Awarded: the value of a contract awarded to a named supplier, real committed spend.
• Framework ceiling (max): the most a framework could spend over its term, across all its suppliers. A ceiling, not spend, and no single supplier receives it.
• Concession value (estimate): an estimate of a concession's value over its life. In a concession the operator funds and runs the charging and earns its money back through charging revenue, so this is estimated operator revenue over the years, not money the buyer pays.
• Estimated (pre-tender): the buyer's own estimate before bids came in. The final figure can differ.
• Lot value: the value of one lot in a multi-lot contract, not the whole framework.
• Programme allocation: a funding-programme figure, like a LEVI allocation, for an authority's whole charging programme, not one contract's value.
• Total value: on the overview page, the value of every EV tender we track added together: open, closed and awarded. It mixes committed awards with framework and concession ceilings and pre-tender estimates, so read it as the scale of what we track, not money committed or still to be spent.
• Value awarded: on the awards page, and on a region, programme or organisation page, the stated values of the contracts awarded there added together, including call-offs from frameworks. Framework ceilings and concession estimates are left out, each notice counts once, and an award with no stated value isn't in it, so it can be less than the full amount awarded.
• Value received: on a supplier's organisation page, the stated values of the contracts awarded to that supplier alone added together. Frameworks, concessions, awards shared with other suppliers and awards with no stated value are left out.

VAT and sources

Where a notice states whether a figure excludes or includes VAT, we say which. Every figure traces back to its source notice. And we never present a ceiling, a framework maximum, or a concession estimate as if it were committed spend, on a single tender or in a running total.