month in review

UK public procurement in August 2017

3,371 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in August 2017 by 771 buying organisations, 16% up on July 2017. 6.2% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

3,371

buyers

771

named a winner

2,264

awarded directly

6.2%

median value

£90,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on July 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	July 2017	August 2017	change
The University Of Nottingham	32	199	+167
Essex County Council	4	85	+81
SE Shared Services	36	83	+47
Gloucestershire County Council	5	51	+46
Birmingham Childrens Hospital	12	57	+45
Buckinghamshire County Council	89	52	-37
University of Leeds	14	44	+30
Sheffield Hallam University	9	34	+25
The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office	0	23	+23
Leeds City Council	40	18	-22

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of August 2017

contract	buyer	won by	value
HS2 Phase One Stations: Construction Partner Contracts - Lot 1 Euston	HS2	DRAGADOS S.A +1	£1,512,000,000
HS2 Phase One Stations: Construction Partner Contracts - Lot 2 Old Oak Common	HS2	BALFOUR BEATTY GROUP LTD +3	£1,300,000,000
Cambridgeshire County Council Highway Services	Cambridgeshire County Council	Skanska UK	£850,000,000
16 009 Highway Design, Maintenance and Construction Services	Cheshire East Borough Council	Ringway Jacobs Limited	£525,000,000
DFID 7900 Humanitarian Emergency Response Operations and Stabilisation Programme (HEROS) - Contract	DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT	Palladium International Limited	£330,000,000
Point of Care Testing: Drugs of Abuse	NHS Shared Business Services Ltd (NHS SBS)	Alere Toxicology Ltd +5	£280,000,000
The Purchase of Refuse Collection Vehicles	Sunderland City Council	Dennis Eagle Ltd	£263,759,000
YPO - 000754 Insurance Solution for Housing Sector	YPO	Aon Limited +6	£250,000,000
Sweepers	Sunderland City Council	Go Plant Ltd	£110,953,600
Project STARTER - The MOD wishes to procure an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Remote Controlled Vehicle (EOD RCV) and support.	Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Special Projects SCM (SPSCM)	Harris Corporation	£80,000,000

Contracts published in August 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 August 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.