month in review

UK public procurement in December 2014

221 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in December 2014 by 70 buying organisations. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

221

buyers

named a winner

awarded directly

median value

£610,712

most active buyers

who won most

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of December 2014

contract	buyer	won by	value
KMCPH-011 Kirklees Integrated Sexual Health Service	Kirklees Council	Locala Community Partnership CIC (Community Interest Company)	£19,114,107
P2014/156/EG 7 Year Lease of Rowan East Gypsy and Traveller site.	Darlington Borough Council	Hinc Properties 2012 Ltd	£17,788,589
Main Contractor - Bishop Sutton Primary School	Bath and North East Somerset Council	H Mealing & Sons Ltd	£13,613,559
653F_15 Managed Services for Temporary Agency Resources (MSTAR2)	Espo	named in the notice	£11,666,666
Postvention Bereavement Service in Leeds	Leeds City Council	Leeds Mind	£10,200,000
Investment Management Services - Managing a Portfolio of Hedge Funds	Bath and North East Somerset Council	J.P. Morgan	£3,105,000
TD0843 - For the provision of an Integrated Advocacy Service for Derby City Council	Derby City Council	citizen advice and law centre	£2,913,139
Washroom Services at Harrogate Borough Council Public Buildings	Harrogate Borough Council	Personnel Hygiene Services Limited	£2,631,600
TD0886 - Provision of Alternative Education	Derby City Council	R.E.A.L. Education Ltd	£2,541,227
The Provision of Official Food Control Interventions	Sheffield City Council	ARI Environmental Services Ltd	£1,315,800

Contracts published in December 2014 that name a winning supplier, ranked by the value the buyer published, excluding those flagged as a maximum rather than a price. Figures are as published; gvtcx does not adjust them. A large contract is often a multi-year framework, so the value is what may be spent over its whole life — and where several suppliers share one framework, each is shown against the framework's full value rather than its own share.

how this was counted

Notices published in December 2014 across Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts are of contracting processes, not published notices: a tender and its award notice are one contract and are counted once.

There is no total value on this page, deliberately. Published values repeat a framework's entire ceiling against every supplier on it, so a month containing one large framework would read as a spending spike that never happened. The median excludes anything flagged as a ceiling, and the reasoning is set out in full here. Where a total IS defensible — contracts awarded to a single supplier, with no framework — it is on the direct awards page.

A month stays open to revision: publishers backdate, so figures for the current month and the one before it may still move.