month in review
UK public procurement in January 2015
104 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in January 2015 by 43 buying organisations, 53% down on December 2014. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.
most active buyers
- Spend Network42
- Bath and North East Somerset Council3
- Durham County Council3
- Leeds City Council3
- Newcastle City Council3
- Sheffield City Council3
- Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council2
- Devon County Council2
- Doncaster MBC2
- Espo2
who won most
- Touchstone2
- G O'Brien & Sons (NDC) Ltd1
- Prepaid Financial Services1
- Refuge1
- see atatchment1
- Self Management UK1
- The Publishing Foundry Limited1
biggest changes on December 2014
Change in the number of notices published, against the month before. Measured as an absolute change and shown only where it is at least ten notices — a buyer going from one notice to four is a 300% rise and means nothing.
| buyer | December 2014 | January 2015 | change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spend Network | 65 | 42 | -23 |
what was bought
- health and social care 24
- construction work 13
- education and training 10
- waste, cleaning and environment 5
- transport services 5
- finance and insurance 4
- business and professional services 4
- IT services 4
- software and information systems 4
- repair and maintenance 3
the biggest awarded contracts of January 2015
| contract | buyer | won by | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type 2 Diabetes Supported Structured Self-Management Programme for South Asian Communities | Leeds City Council | Touchstone | £1,406,459 |
| 3158_15 Education Quality Consultancy Services | Espo | named in the notice | £1,289,999 |
| Long Term Conditions Supported Structured Self Management Programme | Leeds City Council | Self Management UK +1 | £1,054,844 |
| Direct Payment Accounts for Citizens | Nottingham City Council | Prepaid Financial Services | £623,334 |
| Dry Recyclables for Durham County Council | Durham County Council | G O'Brien & Sons (NDC) Ltd | £602,172 |
| Police & Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley - Independent Sexual Violence Advisors Service | Thames Valley Police | Refuge | £600,000 |
| STAT Sheffield Development Partnership (for Malin Bridge School) | Sheffield City Council | THE PUBLISHING FOUNDRY LIMITED | £131,250 |
Contracts published in January 2015 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 January 2015 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.