month in review
UK public procurement in November 2015
1,109 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in November 2015 by 477 buying organisations, 5% down on October 2015. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.
most active buyers
- Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council30
- SE Shared Services22
- Derbyshire County Council20
- Crown Commercial Service18
- any of the projects listed on the portal17
- Coventry - Solihull - Warwickshire14
- Defra14
- Durham County Council14
- NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit14
- UK Shared Business Services Limited14
who won most
- Foundation of Light4
- Carers First3
- CDC Enterprise Agency3
- Groundwork North East3
- Housing Maintenance Solutions Limited3
- Aaron Services Limited2
- Accent Marketing and Research Limited2
- Acumen Community Enterprise Development Trust2
- Acumen Development Trust2
- Arthur J. Gallagher Housing Ltd2
biggest changes on October 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 | October 2015 | November 2015 | change |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Borough of Redbridge | 12 | 1 | -11 |
| Derbyshire County Council | 10 | 20 | +10 |
| Coventry - Solihull - Warwickshire | 4 | 14 | +10 |
what was bought
- construction work 170
- health and social care 148
- business and professional services 95
- architecture and engineering 64
- education and training 50
- IT services 48
- research and development 46
- waste, cleaning and environment 40
- construction materials 39
- repair and maintenance 38
the biggest awarded contracts of November 2015
Contracts published in November 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 November 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.