month in review

UK public procurement in October 2017

3,511 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in October 2017 by 799 buying organisations, 21% up on September 2017. 4% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

3,511

buyers

799

named a winner

2,360

awarded directly

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on September 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	September 2017	October 2017	change
FCDO Services	52	252	+200
University of the West of England	0	71	+71
Darlington Borough Council	90	20	-70
Newcastle University	4	44	+40
Her Majestys Land Registry	1	39	+38
Cumbria County Council	42	13	-29
Gloucestershire County Council	6	32	+26
The University of Birmingham	13	39	+26
Department for International Development	8	33	+25
London Borough of Ealing	2	23	+21

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of October 2017

contract	buyer	won by	value
WSCC - DR - Sussex Tariff - AWARD	SE Shared Services	Robin Hood Energy Limited	£450,000,000
953_18 Modular Buildings	Espo	ACTAVO BUILDING SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED +10	£320,000,000
E-Services relating to a Pan-London Sexual Health Transformation Programme	City of London Corporation	Preventx Limited	£204,000,000
WSCC AE The Collection, Transport and Treatment of Refuse Derived Fuel - AWARD	SE Shared Services	Seneca Environmental Solutions Ltd	£200,000,000
Provision of Care at Home Services	Peterborough City Council	4passioncare Limited +26	£170,170,000
BHCC HP Strategic Construction Partnership (2017) - AWARD	SE Shared Services	HOP Consulting Limited +2	£150,000,000
Southern Housing - Planned Maintenance Term Contracts	Southern Housing Group	Amber Construction Ltd +3	£150,000,000
National Driver Offender Re-Training Schemes (NDORS) for North Yorkshire Police, South Yorkshire Police and West Yorkshire Police	Yorkshire and Humber Police Procurement (Y&HPP)	TTC 2000 Ltd	£135,000,000
Integrated Urgent Care Service for NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group	NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT	BrisDoc Healthcare Service Limited	£125,000,000
Catering Outsourced Services	LONDON UNIVERSITIES PURCHASING CONSORTIUM	Aramark Limited +9	£100,000,000

Contracts published in October 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 October 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.