month in review
UK public procurement in February 2015
834 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in February 2015 by 563 buying organisations, 702% up on January 2015. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.
most active buyers
- University of Glasgow11
- the university of Warwick7
- University of Edinburgh7
- Northern Ireland Housing Executive6
- Derry City and Strabane District Council5
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office5
- Ministry of Defence, DSG5
- Ministry of Defence, IMOC5
- Newport City Homes5
- NPL Management Limited5
who won most
- Baydale Control Systems1
- BT Plc1
- Careers Research and Advisory Centre (crac) Limited(the)1
- Frontier Economics1
- HW Audio Ltd1
- Ricardo-AEA Ltd1
- Rimmers Music Ltd1
- See Attached List of Various Suppliers1
- The Music Cellar1
- The Relatives & Residents Associations1
biggest changes on January 2015
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 | January 2015 | February 2015 | change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spend Network | 42 | 0 | -42 |
| University of Glasgow | 0 | 11 | +11 |
what was bought
- business and professional services 69
- construction work 69
- health and social care 68
- repair and maintenance 61
- waste, cleaning and environment 57
- finance and insurance 52
- medical and pharmaceutical 50
- vehicles and transport equipment 39
- transport services 35
- architecture and engineering 29
the biggest awarded contracts of February 2015
| contract | buyer | won by | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom-Preston: Transport services (excl. Waste transport) | Lancashire County Council | named in the notice | £70,000,000 |
| United Kingdom-Hull: Telecommunications services | UNIVERSITY OF HULL | BT PLC | £5,602,500 |
| United Kingdom-Preston: Musical instruments | Lancashire County Council | HW Audio Ltd +2 | £480,000 |
| United Kingdom-Preston: Building-cleaning services | Lancashire County Council | cancelled | £321,488 |
| United Kingdom-Nottingham: Closed circuit television services | Broxtowe Borough Council | Baydale Control Systems | £53,000 |
| UK SBS Professional Doctorates: research to understand demand for and the characteristics of the range of professional doctorates in English higher education | N H S SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LTD | CAREERS RESEARCH AND ADVISORY CENTRE (CRAC) LIMITED(THE) | £43,333 |
| NHS Premises Assurance Model Metrics Update | DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH | Frontier Economics | £35,000 |
| Tell us about your care - Residential Care | Care Quality Commission | The Relatives & Residents Associations | £30,000 |
Contracts published in February 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 February 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.