month in review

UK public procurement in August 2015

1,066 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in August 2015 by 428 buying organisations, 7% up on July 2015. 0.2% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

1,066

buyers

428

named a winner

198

awarded directly

0.2%

median value

£120,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on July 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	July 2015	August 2015	change
Hertfordshire NHS Procurement	0	23	+23
Cumbria County Council	32	15	-17
Lancaster University	11	1	-10

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of August 2015

contract	buyer	won by	value
YPO - 000652 Specialist Vehicles - Purchase	YPO	Aebi Schmidt UK Ltd +70	£500,000,000
Preston Western Distributor Road & North West Preston East West Link Road	Lancashire County Council	Costain	£110,000,000
TD0991 - Tender for the provision of Domiciliary Care	Derby City Council	Carewatch Care Services Ltd +10	£55,500,000
Recycling, Waste Collection, and HWRC Contract	North Somerset Council	Biffa Municipal Limited	£49,000,000
The purchase of vehicles	Procurement for Housing	Citroen Uk Ltd +11	£40,000,000
Provision of Core Surfacing 2016-2020	CUMBRIA COUNTY COUNCIL	Aggregate Industries UK Ltd +1	£25,600,000
Housing Support Solutions for Homeless Households	Liverpool City Council	Liverpool YMCA +2	£20,784,830
Provision of Vulnerable Adults Supported Accommodation	Halton Borough Council	Community Integrated Care +2	£20,000,000
Direct Access to Diagnostic Services - Prime Provider Model	North West Commissioning Support Unit	Wirral University Teaching Hospital (WUTH) NHS Foundation Trust	£20,000,000
Tender for the Provision of Vulnerable Adults Supported Accommodation	Halton Borough Council	Community Integrated Care +4	£17,000,000

Contracts published in August 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 August 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.