month in review

UK public procurement in July 2019

4,516 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in July 2019 by 1,065 buying organisations, 10% up on June 2019. 7.8% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

4,516

buyers

1,065

named a winner

3,105

awarded directly

7.8%

median value

£96,210

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on June 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	June 2019	July 2019	change
FCDO Services	3	95	+92
Winchester City Council	95	6	-89
National Highways	61	124	+63
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	99	37	-62
City of London Corporation	57	12	-45
University of the West of England	86	49	-37
Scottish Government	54	18	-36
Cumbria County Council	16	49	+33
UK Research and Innovation	51	18	-33
Stevenage Borough Council	0	32	+32

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of July 2019

contract	buyer	won by	value
DFID 8373 International Multi-Disciplinary Programme (IMDP) Contract Award	DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT	named in the notice	£3,000,000,000
Contract for the Treatment of Post 2020 Residual Waste	Leicestershire County Council	Biffa Waste Services Ltd	£465,000,000
Regional Delivery Partnership Technical Advise	Highways England	AECOM Ltd +5	£260,000,000
YPO - 000979 Technology Hardware and Software Service Solutions	YPO	ACS Business Supplies Ltd +30	£200,000,000
Next Generation of Visa (NGOV) Services - International	Home Office	TELEPERFORMANCE LIMITED +1	£178,000,000
NEPO209 Highway Technical Services	Sunderland City Council	Aecom Infrastructure & Environment UK Limited +4	£165,000,000
Occupational Health Services	Espo	BHSF Occupational Health Limited +14	£100,000,000
Provision of Joint Fires Synthetic Trainer (JFST)	Ministry of Defence, Land Equipment, Soldier Training and Special Programmes	Ferranti Technologies Ltd trading as Elbit Systems UK Ltd	£80,000,000
NHS England and NHS Improvement (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	Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services (Frimley Health NHS FT +5	£78,100,000
CP1671-18 Transportation & Engineering Professional Services	Devon County Council	WSP	£77,000,000

Contracts published in July 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 July 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.