month in review

UK public procurement in June 2018

3,748 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in June 2018 by 801 buying organisations, 10% up on May 2018. 5.2% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

3,748

buyers

801

named a winner

2,485

awarded directly

5.2%

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on May 2018

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	May 2018	June 2018	change
Department for International Trade	5	124	+119
Middlesbrough Council	0	75	+75
FCDO Services	0	52	+52
Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals Nhs Trust	2	37	+35
Harborough District Council	0	30	+30
Bristol City Council	34	62	+28
Her Majestys Land Registry	39	13	-26
Sheffield Hallam University	9	34	+25
Water Services Regulation Authority	29	5	-24
Staffordshire County Council	16	39	+23

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of June 2018

contract	buyer	won by	value
INSOURCING OF CLINICAL SUPPORT SERVICES (10203)	NHS Shared Business Services	18 Week Support Ltd +39	£800,000,000
CA4981 - Outsourced Catering Services	Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC)	abm catering limited +31	£400,000,000
Northampton Borough Council - Environmental Services	Northampton Borough Council	Veolia Environmental Services	£200,000,000
347_18 Security Services	ESPO	Alpha Omega Securities Ltd +22	£150,000,000
Home Care	SOUTHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL	ALLIED HEALTH-SERVICES LIMITED	£150,000,000
Services Agreement for the delivery of external marking services for Key Stage 2 National Curriculum Tests	Department For Education	Pearson Education Limited	£130,597,314
Radio Network Infrastructure Replacement	Crown Commercial Service	TELENT TECHNOLOGY SERVICES LIMITED	£130,000,000
Provision of Construction Works	Warwickshire County Council	named in the notice	£125,000,000
Housing Responsive Repairs, Maintenance and Voids Service	City of London Corporation	Metwin Ltd +1	£120,000,000
Flexible Procurement Agreement for the Provision of Personal Care and Support at Home and Auxiliary Care and Support Services.	Sunderland City Council	Withdrawn and replaced with new notice	£120,000,000

Contracts published in June 2018 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 June 2018 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.