month in review
UK public procurement in July 2016
1,323 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in July 2016 by 529 buying organisations, 2% down on June 2016. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.
most active buyers
- Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council31
- Skills Funding Agency26
- SE Shared Services24
- Cumbria County Council23
- Suffolk County Council19
- Derbyshire County Council18
- Crown Commercial Service16
- Defra15
- Lancashire County Council15
- UK Shared Business Services Limited14
who won most
- Neal's Travel Ltd7
- 24x7 Ltd5
- Learndirect Ltd5
- Cater Link Limited3
- CSW Group Limited3
- Neals Travel Ltd3
- Serco Limited3
- Accuro FM Ltd2
- Adviza Partnership2
- Artstraws Ltd2
biggest changes on June 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 | June 2016 | July 2016 | change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suffolk County Council | 44 | 19 | -25 |
| Cumbria County Council | 3 | 23 | +20 |
| Highways Agency | 20 | 0 | -20 |
| BEP Delivery Team | 18 | 0 | -18 |
| Skills Funding Agency | 38 | 26 | -12 |
| NHS Shared Business Services | 19 | 9 | -10 |
what was bought
- construction work 234
- health and social care 136
- business and professional services 106
- education and training 78
- architecture and engineering 66
- waste, cleaning and environment 52
- research and development 51
- transport services 50
- software and information systems 49
- IT services 42
the biggest awarded contracts of July 2016
Contracts published in July 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 July 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.