month in review

UK public procurement in February 2016

1,306 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in February 2016 by 470 buying organisations, 8% up on January 2016. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

1,306

buyers

470

named a winner

332

awarded directly

median value

£134,500

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on January 2016

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	January 2016	February 2016	change
Kirklees Council	11	0	-11
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council	34	45	+11
Ministry of Defence	5	15	+10
NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit	12	2	-10
Centre for Process Innovation Limited	16	26	+10
The Litmus Partnership Ltd	2	12	+10
NHS Shared Business Services	4	14	+10

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of February 2016

contract	buyer	won by	value
220_16 Highway De-Icing Salt	Espo	Broste Limited (Azelis) +12	£300,000,000
Advanced Wound Care	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	3m United Kingdom Public Limited Company +47	£194,200,000
378_16 Specialist Waste Services	Espo	Acumen Waste Services +9	£50,000,000
Un-valved Respirators FFP3 PIPP	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	Anderco Safety (UK) Limited +3	£35,360,000
Provision of Children's Community Health Services within Bristol and South Gloucestershire	NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT	Sirona care & health CIC	£34,677,000
A HIV dispensing & delivery service	Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust	Lloyds Pharmacy Ltd	£32,000,000
DFID 7507 Pakistan Justice System Support Programme (JSSP)	DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT	Adam Smith International Ltd	£20,759,328
Invitation to Tender for Trinity Practice - APMS	NHS England, Cheshire and Merseyside	TCG Medical Services Ltd	£16,133,882
TC858 The Provision of a STI Screening Support Service	Manchester City Council	Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	£13,000,000
Community Musculoskeletal Service on behalf of NHS West London CCG	NHS Shared Business Services	Healthshare Ltd	£12,000,000

Contracts published in February 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 February 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.