month in review
UK public procurement in January 2016
1,205 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in January 2016 by 478 buying organisations, 10% up on December 2015. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.
most active buyers
- Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council34
- SE Shared Services31
- Defra21
- Crown Commercial Service20
- Centre for Process Innovation Limited16
- any of the projects listed on the portal14
- Cumbria County Council13
- Halton Borough Council13
- Skills Funding Agency13
- UK Shared Business Services Limited13
who won most
- Reed in Partnership Limited4
- Halton Chamber of Commerce3
- Adullam Homes2
- Aggregate Industries UK Ltd2
- Arriva the Shires & Essex2
- Brook Young People2
- Complete Network Services LTD2
- Keepmoat Regeneration Limited2
- Lifeline Project Ltd2
- OCS Group UK Limited2
biggest changes on December 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 | December 2015 | January 2016 | change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | 22 | 34 | +12 |
| Centre for Process Innovation Limited | 4 | 16 | +12 |
| London Borough of Hillingdon | 12 | 2 | -10 |
what was bought
- construction work 184
- health and social care 153
- business and professional services 99
- architecture and engineering 63
- education and training 53
- repair and maintenance 48
- research and development 48
- IT services 46
- construction materials 40
- vehicles and transport equipment 35
the biggest awarded contracts of January 2016
Contracts published in January 2016 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 January 2016 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.