month in review

UK public procurement in June 2016

1,348 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in June 2016 by 499 buying organisations, 6% up on May 2016. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

most active buyers

• Suffolk County Council44
• Skills Funding Agency38
• SE Shared Services33
• Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council27
• Highways Agency20
• NHS Shared Business Services19
• BEP Delivery Team18
• Birmingham City Council18
• Noe-cpc16
• Lancashire County Council15

who won most

• Learndirect Ltd6
• Thompsons Coaches Ltd6
• A1 Cars3
• BOC Limited3
• Carers UK3
• Derwent Fencing Ltd3
• ESG Skills Ltd3
• Hart Cars (Saxmundham)3
• NSL Ltd3
• PF Travel3

biggest changes on May 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.

what was bought

• construction work 261
• health and social care 139
• business and professional services 97
• education and training 89
• architecture and engineering 77
• transport services 68
• research and development 53
• waste, cleaning and environment 51
• vehicles and transport equipment 43
• medical and pharmaceutical 42

the biggest awarded contracts of June 2016

Contracts published in June 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 June 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.