month in review
UK public procurement in October 2016
1,618 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in October 2016 by 630 buying organisations, 8% up on September 2016. 0% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.
most active buyers
- Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council33
- SE Shared Services32
- UK Shared Business Services Limited29
- Derbyshire County Council23
- NHS Shared Business Services17
- NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit16
- Crown Commercial Service15
- Noe-cpc15
- University of Leeds14
- Defra13
who won most
- Arco Limited4
- Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance Brokers Limited3
- Ridge and Partners LLP3
- the mallows company (Bozeat) Limited3
- Zurich Municipal3
- 4C Strategies Limited2
- Accuro FM Ltd2
- Acorn Contract Hire2
- AECOM Limited2
- Alternative Heat Ltd.2
biggest changes on September 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 | September 2016 | October 2016 | change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust | 50 | 1 | -49 |
| UK Shared Business Services Limited | 43 | 29 | -14 |
| Medway Council | 1 | 11 | +10 |
| Defra Network eTendering Portal | 0 | 10 | +10 |
what was bought
- construction work 266
- health and social care 200
- business and professional services 146
- architecture and engineering 82
- IT services 66
- education and training 61
- research and development 60
- repair and maintenance 57
- waste, cleaning and environment 55
- laboratory and precision equipment 52
the biggest awarded contracts of October 2016
Contracts published in October 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 October 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.