month in review

UK public procurement in December 2015

1,097 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in December 2015 by 456 buying organisations, 1% down on November 2015. 0.1% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

1,097

buyers

456

named a winner

251

awarded directly

0.1%

median value

£194,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on November 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	November 2015	December 2015	change
Derbyshire County Council	20	9	-11
Durham County Council	14	4	-10

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of December 2015

contract	buyer	won by	value
Built Environment Consultancy Services (BECS)	SCAPE GROUP LIMITED	Perfect Circle JV LTD	£350,000,000
Installation Works	Fusion 21 Limited	A Connolly Ltd +48	£200,000,000
Combat Water Supply System (CWSS)	Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Operational Infrastructure Programme (OIP)	Kellogg, Brown & Root Limited	£100,000,000
Electrical Repairs, Rewires and Periodic Testing	Efficiency East Midlands Ltd (EEM)	Complete Electrical UK Ltd +3	£100,000,000
CYP - Lancashire Children and Young People Agency Residential Placements to include Residential Homes with Education (as registered with the DfE)	Lancashire County Council	Alliance Care and Education Ltd +38	£78,000,000
Polymer Products	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	British Polythene Limited +2	£58,680,000
LEISURE MANAGEMENT JOINT VENTURE PARTNER	East Hampshire District Council	Sports and Leisure Management	£30,000,000
Parking Enforcement Services	Wandsworth Borough Council	NSL Limited	£23,000,000
Understanding Society Survey Waves 9-11 (T602)	University of Essex	TNS-BMRB	£22,500,000
Contract for the Composting of Garden Waste	Devon County Council	DWML Holdings Ltd	£14,000,000

Contracts published in December 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 December 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.