month in review

UK public procurement in June 2015

988 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in June 2015 by 403 buying organisations, 15% up on May 2015. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

988

buyers

403

named a winner

157

awarded directly

median value

£150,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on May 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	May 2015	June 2015	change
Derbyshire County Council	32	13	-19
Leicester City Council	7	18	+11
Ministry of Defence	12	23	+11
SE Shared Services	13	23	+10
Hull City Council	14	4	-10

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of June 2015

contract	buyer	won by	value
Overhaul and Refurbishment Work	EASTERN PROCUREMENT LIMITED	Aspect East Anglia Limited +7	£160,000,000
Community Home Care Service	Leeds City Council	AJ Social Care +18	£135,000,000
Integrated Community Equipment Loans Service (ICELS)	Nottinghamshire County Council	British Red Cross	£52,500,000
Citywide Homecare & Community Support Service	Hull City Council	Allied Healthcare Group Limited +11	£40,000,000
2015-072363 Procurement for Sports and Leisure Development Partner for Lancaster City Council	Lancaster City Council	Alliance Liesure	£15,000,000
YPO - 000606 Ground Maintenance Equipment Associated Equipment Maintenance, Servicing, Repairs and Disposal Equipment	YPO	Aebi Schmidt UK Ltd +18	£12,000,000
YPO - 000624 Fresh Fruit & Vegetables	YPO	GW Price Ltd +3	£8,000,000
Lancashire Tobacco and Nicotine Addiction Treatment Service	Lancashire County Council	Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust	£8,000,000
Supply of Vehicle Body Building Services	Lancashire County Council	ABANDONED	£7,000,000
Supply of Motor Vehicles	Lancashire County Council	N/A	£7,000,000

Contracts published in June 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 June 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.