month in review

UK public procurement in May 2015

856 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in May 2015 by 336 buying organisations, 26% up on April 2015. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

856

buyers

336

named a winner

155

awarded directly

median value

£145,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on April 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	April 2015	May 2015	change
Noe-cpc	1	15	+14
Coventry - Solihull - Warwickshire	13	1	-12
Derbyshire County Council	21	32	+11
Hull City Council	4	14	+10
London Borough of Lambeth	13	3	-10
Defra	5	15	+10

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of May 2015

contract	buyer	won by	value
Internal Audit Services for Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA)	Crown Commercial Service	Please refer to attached list of successful awarded suppliers	£60,000,000
Integrated Sexual Health Service (C161)	Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council	Virgin Care Services Limited	£16,882,025
SH04613 - HOUSING INVESTMENT PROGRAMME 2015/2020 - ELEMENTAL PROGRAMME	Sheffield City Council	UNITED LIVING (NORTH) LIMITED	£14,860,000
Access Control Systems	South East Consortium	Abba/Mechatronics +14	£10,000,000
YPO - 000659 Supply of Pencils	YPO	Acco UK Ltd +5	£9,000,000
SH04614 - HOUSING IVESTMENT PROGRAMME 2015/2020 - DOORS AND WINDOWS	Sheffield City Council	WATES CONSTRUCTION LIMITED	£8,500,000
Short term supported accommodation services for offenders or people at risk of offending and Intensive Resettlement Service for Offenders subject MAPPA and PPO arrangements	Lancashire County Council	DISC +2	£3,488,936
Traffic Management	Lancashire County Council	A Plant Lux +3	£3,300,000
PP15043 Manor Primary PEP Scheme - 2015	Wolverhampton City Council	J. Harper & Sons Limited	£3,200,000
Scaffolding Services	whg	Scaffold Erection Services	£3,000,000

Contracts published in May 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 May 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.