month in review

UK public procurement in September 2015

922 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in September 2015 by 416 buying organisations, 14% down on August 2015. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

922

buyers

416

named a winner

203

awarded directly

median value

£200,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on August 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	August 2015	September 2015	change
Hertfordshire NHS Procurement	23	1	-22
Derbyshire County Council	19	4	-15
London Borough of Lambeth	19	6	-13
University of Leeds	4	15	+11
Wirral Borough Council	15	4	-11
Milton Keynes City Council	5	15	+10
Orbit Housing	0	10	+10

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of September 2015

contract	buyer	won by	value
North Region Multi Activity Contract	Ministry of Defence, DIO, Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO)	CarillionAramark	£380,000,000
YPO - 000618 Liquid Fuels	YPO	Certas Energy UK Limited +4	£300,000,000
Supply and Distribution of Fruit and Vegetables for the School Fruit and Vegetables Scheme	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	Alan Bartlett and Sons (Chatteris) Limited +19	£179,240,000
Learning & Development	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£150,000,000
Southwest Residential Children's Homes 2016 - 2020	Bath and North East Somerset Council	3 Dimensions +66	£109,494,284
Integrated 111/ GP Out of Hours Service for the benefit of NCL CCGs (a group of 5 clinical commissioning groups encompassing Enfield CCG, Barnet CCG, Haringey CCG, Camden CCG and Islington CCG).	NHS Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CGG)	London Central and West Unscheduled Care Collaborative	£75,000,000
SS1470 - Waste Treatment and or Final Disposal	Kent County Council	Countrystyle Recycling Limited	£66,000,000
NHS Generic Transition Products 2015_2	COMMERCIAL MEDICINES UNIT	Please refer to attachments for list of awarded suppliers	£55,000,000
Middlesbrough Healthy Child Programme 0-19 (and up to 25 for those with a SEND)	Middlesbrough Borough Council	Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust	£35,000,000
Provision of Policing Skills Support to the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT)	Ministry of Defence, C&C, Other	Red Snapper Recruitment Limited	£29,000,000

Contracts published in September 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 September 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.