month in review

UK public procurement in November 2018

3,694 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in November 2018 by 874 buying organisations, 4% down on October 2018. 5.8% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

3,694

buyers

874

named a winner

2,394

awarded directly

5.8%

median value

£117,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on October 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	October 2018	November 2018	change
Nottingham Trent University	92	1	-91
Transport for London	3	81	+78
FCDO Services	2	74	+72
Home Office	13	81	+68
Staffordshire County Council	62	10	-52
Crown Commercial Service	67	20	-47
Northern Housing Consortium Limited	6	52	+46
University of the West of England	51	13	-38
League Football Education	37	0	-37
The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office	32	0	-32

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of November 2018

contract	buyer	won by	value
653F_19 Managed Services for Temporary Agency Resources (MSTAR3)	ESPO	Adecco (UK) Ltd +21	£4,000,000,000
Engineering Delivery Partner Arrangement	DEFENCE EQUIPMENT & SUPPORT	QINETIQ LIMITED	£2,500,000,000
Project Selborne - Provision of a Training Service to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines	Project Selborne - To Provide a Training Service for Royal Navy and Royal Marines	Capita Business Services Ltd	£2,000,000,000
Vehicle Lease, Fleet Management and Flexible Rental Solutions	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£1,500,000,000
Mobile and Strategic Clinical Solutions	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	4Ways Healthcare Limited +33	£600,000,000
NHS England (Public health Commissioning) - Laboratory Services to Support the Delivery of the HPV Primary Screening Pathway within the NHS Cervical Screening Programme	NHS ARDEN AND GREATER EAST MIDLANDS COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT	Health Services Laboratories LLP	£569,500,000
The Provision of Strategic Asset Management Services for Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust	East Of England NHS Collaborative Hub	CBRE Managed Services Limited +1	£500,000,000
COV - City Centre South Development - AWARD	Coventry - Solihull - Warwickshire	Shearer Property Group	£200,000,000
Chester Northgate Development	Cheshire west and Chester Borough Council	VINCI PLC	£200,000,000
F12026 Integrated Community Services for North East Hampshire and Farnham CCG and Surrey Heath CCG	South of England Procurement Centre	FRIMLEY HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST +1	£149,000,000

Contracts published in November 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 November 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.