month in review

UK public procurement in March 2015

388 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in March 2015 by 162 buying organisations, 53% down on February 2015. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

388

buyers

162

named a winner

awarded directly

median value

£60,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on February 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	February 2015	March 2015	change
Aston University	0	22	+22
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	0	13	+13
Centre for Process Innovation Limited	3	15	+12
University of Glasgow	11	0	-11
Defra	0	11	+11
BIP Solutions Limited	2	13	+11
UK Shared Business Services Limited	2	13	+11

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of March 2015

contract	buyer	won by	value
Airway Management	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	Albert Waeschle Limited +37	£80,240,000
The Provision of Electronic Payment Services	Procurement for Housing	Paypoint	£30,000,000
Acquisition Support Partner(ASP) for the Ministry of Defence.	Crown Commercial Service	KPMG LLP	£30,000,000
High Potential Middle Leaders Programme - Secondary (RD1043)	Department For Education	Teaching Leaders	£17,000,000
Security Services at various sites within Thanet	Thanet District Council	Profile Security Services Limited +1	£1,168,000
Fire Risk Assessment Services	Network Housing Group	Savills (Uk) Limited	£1,000,000
Provision of Tier 3 Healthy Weight Service (Adults & Children) for Halton	Halton Borough Council	5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust	£900,000
School Improvement Services for the expanding EMLC Academy Trust	EMLC Academy Trust	Third Wave Enterprises	£800,000
Tender for the Provision of Missing from Home, Care and Child Sexual Exploitation Services	Halton Borough Council	Catch 22	£640,000
Membership Fulfilment & Distribution	English Heritage	Sterling Press	£600,000

Contracts published in March 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 March 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.