month in review

UK public procurement in July 2015

995 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in July 2015 by 402 buying organisations, 1% up on June 2015. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

995

buyers

402

named a winner

166

awarded directly

median value

£120,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on June 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	June 2015	July 2015	change
Cumbria County Council	20	32	+12

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of July 2015

contract	buyer	won by	value
YPO - 000569 The Provision of HR Services and Solutions	YPO	Adecco UK Ltd +13	£6,000,000,000
North West Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service	NHS Shared Business Services	North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust +1	£219,500,000
Paper Hygiene Products	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	ESSENTIAL SUPPLY PRODUCTS LIMITED +8	£135,000,000
CORP - LCC/LPFA Pension Fund Depositary and Custody Services	Lancashire County Council	completed by the Local Pensions Partnership	£40,000,000
Child Health Information Service (CHIS) for NHS England West & North Midlands	NHS ARDEN AND GREATER EAST MIDLANDS COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT	Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust	£25,000,000
The Provision of Estates Cleaning and Grounds Maintenance	Stonewater Limited	Biosphere Organics Ltd +6	£20,545,500
The Football Association Operator Procurement For Sheffield Football Hubs	Sheffield City Council	PULSE FITNESS LIMITED	£18,500,000
CLC 4784 Adult Drugs and Alcohol Services (Lots A, B & C)	Tower Hamlets	East London Foundation Trust +2	£13,347,000
CP1141-15 - Provision of Children's Centre Services in South Hams, West Devon and Teignbridge	Devon County Council	Action for Children	£12,143,115
Safety Management Information System (SMIS+)	Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB)	Ideagen Gael Ltd	£12,000,000

Contracts published in July 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 July 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.