month in review

UK public procurement in May 2019

4,130 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in May 2019 by 1,015 buying organisations, 16% down on April 2019. 6.9% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

4,130

buyers

1,015

named a winner

2,719

awarded directly

6.9%

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on April 2019

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	April 2019	May 2019	change
Home Office	150	57	-93
National Highways	150	66	-84
NHS Digital	84	11	-73
Transport for London	33	95	+62
North East Lincolnshire Council	52	13	-39
Nottinghamshire Police Force	35	0	-35
Middlesbrough Council	32	0	-32
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government	32	2	-30
Radioactive Waste Management Limited	62	32	-30
Derbyshire County Council	5	30	+25

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of May 2019

contract	buyer	won by	value
New Home Construction - Offsite (Scotland)	LHC for the Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA)	Ashley House plc trading as "Ashley House" & "F1 Modular" +7	£10,200,000,000
Programme and Project Parters (PPP Project) Lot 4 - Final Tender	CTM Portal for the NDA Shared Services Alliance	Doosan Babcock Ltd	£1,500,000,000
Programme and Project Partners (PPP Project) Lot 3 - Final Tender	CTM Portal for the NDA Shared Services Alliance	Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure Ltd	£1,500,000,000
Provision of Nest Scheme Administration Services	NEST Scheme Administration	Atos BPS Limited	£1,500,000,000
Programme and Project Partners (PPP Project) Lot 2 - Final Tender	CTM Portal for the NDA Shared Services Alliance	Wood Nuclear Ltd	£750,000,000
YPO - 000944 Data Centres, maintenance and management including design and hosting	YPO	2bm Limited +28	£400,000,000
Employee Benefits	Crown Commercial Service	EDENRED (UK GROUP) LIMITED	£380,000,000
Private Debt Fund Investment Management - AWARD	Hampshire County Council	J.P. Morgan Asset Management	£325,000,000
GFC2018 Supply & Distribution of Grocery, Frozen & Chilled - AWARD	TUCO Ltd	Batleys Foodservice +17	£300,000,000
YPO - 000964 Insurance Brokerage and Associated Services	YPO	Aon Limited +7	£150,000,000

Contracts published in May 2019 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 May 2019 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.