month in review

UK public procurement in July 2017

2,907 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in July 2017 by 764 buying organisations, 7% down on June 2017. 3.8% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

2,907

buyers

764

named a winner

1,800

awarded directly

3.8%

median value

£106,323

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on June 2017

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 2017	July 2017	change
Buckinghamshire County Council	38	89	+51
The University Of Nottingham	2	32	+30
University of the West of England	29	1	-28
Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure Ltd	23	0	-23
Crown Commercial Service	101	78	-23
Babcock International Group PLC	25	5	-20
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council	32	12	-20
Knowsley Council	4	22	+18
Leicester City Council	28	10	-18
Liverpool City Council	27	10	-17

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of July 2017

contract	buyer	won by	value
LCS(T)/0001 - Additional Commodities VEAT	Ministry of Defence, IMOC, Other	Leidos Europe Ltd	£2,750,000,000
Future Service Delivery Contract (FSDC): Provision of Armed Forces Pay, Pensions and Military HR and Administrative Services	Ministry of Defence, C&C, Other	Shared Services Connected Ltd	£750,000,000
Furniture for HMPO Durham	Crown Commercial Service	Gresham	£700,000,000
Marine Systems Support Partner	Ministry of Defence, Ships, Maritime Platform Systems (MPS)	Babcock International Technology Limited	£500,000,000
RM3822 Managed Learning Service	Crown Commercial Service	Capita Business Services Ltd	£400,000,000
TRANSPARENCY ONLY - CONTRACT FOR TRANSPARENCY ONLY IN RELATION TO MARINE SYSTEM SUPPORT PARTNER (MSSP) LOTS 1 PUBLISHED FOR PURPOSE OF TRANSPARENCY - ALL CONTRACTS IDENTICAL	MINISTRY OF DEFENCE	Babcock Integrated Technology Limited	£334,349,765
005600 - NEPO Education, Health & Social Care	Newcastle City Council	Aberlour Child Care Trust +32	£300,000,000
192_19 Mains Gas	Espo	Total Gas and Power Limited	£240,000,000
DFID 7551 Management Agent for the Fleming Fund - Contract	DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT	MOTT MACDONALD LTD	£235,000,000
CPU 1967 Directory of Approved Apprenticeship Training Providers	Nottingham City Council	Various	£150,000,000

Contracts published in July 2017 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 2017 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.