month in review

UK public procurement in November 2017

3,367 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in November 2017 by 802 buying organisations, 4% down on October 2017. 4.6% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

3,367

buyers

802

named a winner

2,139

awarded directly

4.6%

median value

£99,563

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on October 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	October 2017	November 2017	change
FCDO Services	252	150	-102
Defra Network eTendering Portal	35	78	+43
Her Majestys Land Registry	39	4	-35
Radioactive Waste Management Limited	39	5	-34
Gloucestershire County Council	32	4	-28
Crown Commercial Service	69	45	-24
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board	10	33	+23
Ministry of Justice	52	29	-23
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council	25	45	+20
London Borough of Ealing	23	3	-20

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of November 2017

contract	buyer	won by	value
Public Sector Travel and Venue Solutions	Crown Commercial Service	CALDER CONFERENCES LIMITED +6	£5,100,000,000
Utilities Switching Services	Crown Commercial Service	GEMSERV LIMITED	£1,500,000,000
Fuel Cards and Associated Services	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£1,200,000,000
Utilities Management Software Metering and Ancillary Services	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£150,000,000
Waste Collection and Recycling, Street Cleansing and Toilet Cleaning Services	West Devon Borough Council	FCC Environment Services (UK) Limited	£130,000,000
Highways Maintenance, Improvements, and Street Lighting	London Borough of Sutton	FM Conway Ltd +2	£115,000,000
South Liverpool Homes - Contract for Responsive Maintenance, Void Property Works, Major Works (Property Re-investment and NewBuild) to be undertaken by a Joint Venture Economic Operator	RAND ASSOCIATES CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED	Penny Lane Builders	£103,500,000
Care at Home Services (Adults)	Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council	Allied health Care Limited +9	£100,800,000
Procurement of a Development Partner for the former Co-operative Department Store Site & Kent Road Westgate Car Park Site in Dartford Town Centre	Dartford Borough Council	Muse Developments Ltd	£85,000,000
CPU2001 Care Support & Enablement	Nottingham City Council	Advance Housing & Support +27	£81,800,000

Contracts published in November 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 November 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.