month in review

UK public procurement in September 2016

1,496 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in September 2016 by 582 buying organisations, 10% up on August 2016. 0.2% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

1,496

buyers

582

named a winner

393

awarded directly

0.2%

median value

£150,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on August 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	August 2016	September 2016	change
Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	0	50	+50
UK Shared Business Services Limited	16	43	+27
Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust	11	1	-10

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of September 2016

contract	buyer	won by	value
Project Management and Full Design Team Services	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£2,875,000,000
General Legal Services	Crown Commercial Service	Bevan Brittan LLP +17	£320,000,000
TC886 Highways and Infrastructure Construction Works	Manchester City Council	ACS Construction Group Ltd +12	£200,000,000
Pressure Area Care and Patient Handling 2015	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	Accora Ltd +70	£102,300,000
Efficiency and Capability Programme	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£100,000,000
The Management and Delivery of Leisure and Cultural Facilities, Events and Services	Staffordshire County Council	Wealden Leisure t/a Freedom Leisure	£80,000,000
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	Activa Healthcare Limited +7	£66,800,000
Parking and Traffic Enforcement and Associated Services	The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames	NSL Limited	£43,000,000
Communication Services	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£42,000,000
Northamptonshire Integrated Community Equipment Service (ICES)	Northamptonsnhire County Council	N/A - This tender process has been discontinued and no contract	£32,200,000

Contracts published in September 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 September 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.