month in review

UK public procurement in August 2019

4,105 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in August 2019 by 1,024 buying organisations, 9% down on July 2019. 8.7% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

4,105

buyers

1,024

named a winner

2,844

awarded directly

8.7%

median value

£90,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on July 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	July 2019	August 2019	change
FCDO Services	95	21	-74
Suffolk Sourcing	37	107	+70
Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	0	57	+57
National Highways	124	70	-54
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council	19	58	+39
Defra Network eTendering Portal	65	31	-34
Gloucestershire County Council	39	72	+33
Torbay Council - Childrens Services	26	0	-26
University of the West of England	49	24	-25
Stevenage Borough Council	32	7	-25

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of August 2019

contract	buyer	won by	value
YPO - 000942 Managing Temporary and Permanent Recruitment	YPO	Adecco UK Ltd +33	£3,000,000,000
New Build Residential Construction	Scotland Excel	Andrew Shepherd Construction Limited +30	£1,500,000,000
"Everything ICT" - full range of ICT Products, Solutions, Services and Support for the public sector	East of England Broadband Network (Regional Broadband Consortium)	WCL (UK) Ltd trading as Think IT	£800,000,000
Defence Fire and Rescue Project (DFRP)	MINISTRY OF DEFENCE	Capita Business Services Ltd	£525,744,135
WSCC - TH - Building Maintenance Services - AWARD	SE Shared Services	SSE Contracting Ltd	£440,000,000
Print Management Services	Crown Commercial Service	Allied Publicity Services (Manchester) Limited +9	£355,000,000
Total facilities Management (work package B)	Ministry Of Justice	Mitie Facilities Services Ltd	£284,271,348
Total Facilities Management (work package A)	Ministry Of Justice	G4S Facilities Management +1	£261,784,770
Minor Building Works	Telford & Wrekin Council	CLC Contractors Ltd +4	£200,000,000
Major Building Works	Telford & Wrekin Council	Morris Property Ltd	£200,000,000

Contracts published in August 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 August 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.