month in review

UK public procurement in June 2019

4,096 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in June 2019 by 1,013 buying organisations, 1% down on May 2019. 8.3% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

4,096

buyers

1,013

named a winner

2,792

awarded directly

8.3%

median value

£99,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on May 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	May 2019	June 2019	change
FCDO Services	124	3	-121
Winchester City Council	1	95	+94
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	13	99	+86
University of the West of England	0	86	+86
Transport for London	95	32	-63
City of London Corporation	9	57	+48
UK Research and Innovation	11	51	+40
Home Office	57	23	-34
Staffordshire County Council	34	4	-30
Darlington Borough Council	13	39	+26

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of June 2019

contract	buyer	won by	value
Harrow Strategic Development Partnership	Harrow Council	Wates Living Space (South East Lot)	£2,500,000,000
Programme and Project Partners (PPP Project) Lot 1 - Integration Partner Contract Award Notice	CTM Portal for the NDA Shared Services Alliance	Kellogg Brown and Root Ltd	£750,000,000
YPO - 000960 Purchase, Hire and Lease of Specialist Vehicles and Associated Services	YPO	Access Hire Nationwide Ltd +86	£500,000,000
NEPO407 Food & General Provisions	Association Of North East Councils	BESTWAY WHOLESALE LIMITED +4	£480,000,000
Framework for Housing Construction & Associated Works	The Wheatley Housing Group Limited	Ashleigh (Scotland) Limited +7	£400,000,000
Multi Temperature Distribution	FOODBUY EUROPE LIMITED	BFS Group Ltd T/A Bidfood	£300,000,000
Total Cardiology Solutions	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	ABBOTT LABORATORIES LIMITED +25	£250,000,000
London APMS GP Contract (T7)	N E L COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT	AT MEDICS LIMITED +7	£226,185,114
Connect Network Agreement	Transport for London	Thales Transport and Security Ltd,	£217,200,000
Radiology Consumables, Endoscopy Consumables and Vascular Products	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	ABBOTT MEDICAL U.K. LIMITED +33	£200,000,000

Contracts published in June 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 June 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.