month in review

UK public procurement in July 2018

4,058 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in July 2018 by 832 buying organisations, 8% up on June 2018. 4.3% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

4,058

buyers

832

named a winner

2,861

awarded directly

4.3%

median value

£97,208

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on June 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	June 2018	July 2018	change
FCDO Services	52	226	+174
Department for International Trade	124	4	-120
Middlesbrough Council	75	1	-74
Star Procurement Limited	0	53	+53
Maritime and Coastguard Agency	2	54	+52
Met Office	1	43	+42
Cumbria County Council	37	75	+38
Suffolk Sourcing	13	45	+32
Harborough District Council	30	2	-28
Her Majestys Land Registry	13	41	+28

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of July 2018

contract	buyer	won by	value
Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV)	Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Other	Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR)	£11,500,000,000
Data and Application Solutions	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£2,850,000,000
Contract Variation for Corporate Software Solutions	Crown Commercial Service	Accenture (U K) Ltd +22	£950,000,000
West of England Residual Municipal Waste Treatment Solutions	North Somerset Council	ETM +2	£500,000,000
Contract Variation for Local Authority Software Applications	Crown Commercial Service	AAREON UK LIMITED +41	£300,000,000
Hearing Aids, Accessories and Custom Ear Moulds	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	Arlington Lanoratories Limited +12	£270,000,000
704_18 Catering Services	ESPO	A.B.M. Catering Limited +43	£200,000,000
C17 Through Life Training Service	Ministry of Defence, Air Support, Flight Simulation and Synthetic Trainers Project Team (FSAST PT)	Boeing Defence UK	£200,000,000
Microsoft ESA for NHS	Crown Commercial Service	Bytes Software Services Limited	£163,112,902
Equity and Johnnie Johnson Integrated Asset Management Contract	Echelon Consultancy Ltd	Fortem Solutions Limited	£110,000,000

Contracts published in July 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 July 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.