month in review
UK public procurement in October 2015
1,170 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in October 2015 by 470 buying organisations, 27% up on September 2015. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.
most active buyers
- Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council26
- SE Shared Services23
- Crown Commercial Service18
- Defra18
- UK Shared Business Services Limited18
- any of the projects listed on the portal15
- Cumbria County Council15
- Halton Borough Council15
- Birmingham City Council14
- Lancashire County Council13
who won most
- Andron Contract Services Ltd2
- Bebbington & Wilson Ltd2
- Carmelcrest Limited2
- Comfort Call Limited2
- Contract not awarded2
- Curtins Consulting Ltd2
- Deloitte2
- Esh Construction Ltd2
- Glendale Managed Services Ltd2
- Greenwood Projects2
biggest changes on September 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 | September 2015 | October 2015 | change |
|---|---|---|---|
| SE Shared Services | 9 | 23 | +14 |
| UK Shared Business Services Limited | 6 | 18 | +12 |
| London Borough of Redbridge | 1 | 12 | +11 |
| Halton Borough Council | 5 | 15 | +10 |
| Orbit Housing | 10 | 0 | -10 |
what was bought
- construction work 202
- health and social care 137
- business and professional services 92
- architecture and engineering 65
- construction materials 44
- IT services 42
- research and development 42
- software and information systems 42
- repair and maintenance 40
- waste, cleaning and environment 38
the biggest awarded contracts of October 2015
Contracts published in October 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 October 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.