month in review

UK public procurement in September 2019

4,038 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in September 2019 by 1,010 buying organisations, 2% down on August 2019. 7% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

4,038

buyers

1,010

named a winner

2,795

awarded directly

median value

£90,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on August 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	August 2019	September 2019	change
FCDO Services	21	80	+59
Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	57	0	-57
Gloucestershire County Council	72	24	-48
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council	58	26	-32
Sunderland City Council	38	9	-29
University of the West of England	24	50	+26
Surrey County Council	0	26	+26
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust	25	1	-24
Scottish Police Authority	4	27	+23
Kirklees Council	26	4	-22

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of September 2019

contract	buyer	won by	value
ID Manchester	The University Of Manchester	Bruntwood Scitech Ltd	£2,000,000,000
Adult Community Health Services in the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group area	NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT	Sirona care & health Community Interest Company	£1,056,052,696
Education Technology Lots 2 - 5	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£400,000,000
Insurance and Related Services 3	Crown Commercial Service	Aon UK Limited +18	£400,000,000
Cambridgeshire County Council Home and Community Support Services	Cambridgeshire County Council	24 / 7 Care Providers Ltd +89	£300,000,000
Recycling, Waste Collection and Street Cleansing services	London Borough of Lambeth	Serco Ltd	£294,000,000
Linen and Laundry Services	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£260,000,000
GLA Adult Education Budget 2019-23	Transport for London	named in the notice	£200,000,000
Deliver Platform Support to Maintain the Capability of MoD Boats	Ministry of Defence, Ships, Commercially Supported Shipping (CSS) Team	BAE Systems Surface Ships Limited +4	£192,000,000
Architectural Surgical Medical Systems, Operating and Diagnostic Imaging Tables, Patient Stretchers and Trolleys, Medical Lasers and all Related Accessories and Services	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	Acime UK Ltd +31	£150,364,000

Contracts published in September 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 September 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.