month in review

UK public procurement in August 2018

3,729 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in August 2018 by 813 buying organisations, 8% down on July 2018. 10.1% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

3,729

buyers

813

named a winner

2,571

awarded directly

10.1%

median value

£91,257

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on July 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	July 2018	August 2018	change
University of the West of England	8	175	+167
FCDO Services	226	123	-103
Suffolk Sourcing	45	112	+67
Star Procurement Limited	53	1	-52
Maritime and Coastguard Agency	54	7	-47
Cumbria County Council	75	36	-39
Met Office	43	7	-36
Newcastle University	48	82	+34
Her Majestys Land Registry	41	7	-34
Buckinghamshire County Council	30	55	+25

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of August 2018

contract	buyer	won by	value
Payment Solutions	Crown Commercial Service	Please refer to attachments section for list of successfully awa	£10,000,000,000
Children's Innovation Partnership	Leicestershire County Council	Barnardo's	£704,000,000
Logtistics - Hotel and Accommodation Booking Services	The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)	Access Bookings	£165,000,000
Intravenous Cannula and Associated Products	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	Applied Medical Technology Limited +12	£136,000,000
CP1555-18 Peninsula Residential Children's Homes	Devon County Council	3 Dimensions +35	£122,393,192
Leeds Public Transport Investment Programme (LPTIP) Delivery Partnership Contract	Leeds City Council	Bam Nuttall Limited +1	£120,000,000
MSS/084 - Future Diesels	Ministry of Defence, Ships, Maritime Platform Systems (MPS)	BAE Systems Surface Ships Limited	£80,000,000
Logistics - Taxi Hire Services	The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)	GT GetTaxi (UK) Ltd	£74,000,000
Integrated Urgent Care for Dorset	NHS DORSET CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP	DORSET HEALTHCARE UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST	£70,425,000
FCO TFM	Crown Commercial Service	Interserve (Facilities Management) Ltd	£66,724,572

Contracts published in August 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 August 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.