month in review

UK public procurement in January 2020

4,628 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in January 2020 by 1,125 buying organisations, 38% up on December 2019. 5.8% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

4,628

buyers

1,125

named a winner

3,168

awarded directly

5.8%

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on December 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	December 2019	January 2020	change
National Highways	38	115	+77
Home Office	21	72	+51
Newcastle University	71	33	-38
Darlington Borough Council	3	41	+38
Buckinghamshire County Council	37	74	+37
UK Research and Innovation	43	7	-36
Bfi	1	36	+35
Suffolk Sourcing	37	68	+31
Cornwall Council	5	35	+30
Scottish Government	20	49	+29

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of January 2020

contract	buyer	won by	value
Technology Products and Associated Services (TePAS) - Lot 2	Crown Commercial Service	ACS SYSTEMS UK LIMITED	£6,500,000,000
Technology Products and Associated Services (TePAS) Lots 1,3 & 4	Crown Commercial Service	ACS SYSTEMS UK LTD	£6,500,000,000
Non Clinical and Temporary Fixed Term Staff	Crown Commercial Service	Please refer to attachment section for list of successfully awar	£2,000,000,000
Area 9 Asset Support Contract Awarded	Highways England	Kier Highways Ltd	£599,200,000
Estate Management Services	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£500,000,000
NHS National Branded Proprietary Products (Interim Agreement) - Contracts Finder Award	NHS England	AVENTIS PHARMA LIMITED +8	£223,800,000
R100 - Procurement of NGA Infrastructure	Scottish Government	BT Plc	£216,000,000
Maintenance and Management Contract for TfL Road Tunnels and Pumping Stations	Transport for London (TfL)	Kier Highways Limited +1	£200,000,000
HCC - 05/19 - Provision of a Care Provider for a Nursing and Dementia Nursing Care Home in Wormley, Hertfordshire - AWARD	Supply Hertfordshire	Gold Care Homes	£108,000,000
Vehicle Licensing and Inspection Services and a Technology System for Taxi and Private Hire Services	Transport for London	Marston (Holdings) Limited +1	£103,000,000

Contracts published in January 2020 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 January 2020 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.