month in review

UK public procurement in June 2020

3,395 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in June 2020 by 892 buying organisations, 19% up on May 2020. 10.8% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

3,395

buyers

892

named a winner

2,506

awarded directly

10.8%

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on May 2020

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 2020	June 2020	change
FCDO Services	186	22	-164
University of Nottingham (The)	152	28	-124
The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS")	6	83	+77
London Borough of Enfield	29	74	+45
Radioactive Waste Management Limited	43	4	-39
Met Office	22	58	+36
Bristol City Council	21	57	+36
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust	37	5	-32
Defra Network eTendering Portal	17	47	+30
UK Shared Business Services Limited	55	82	+27

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of June 2020

contract	buyer	won by	value
Procurement for the Construction of Modular (Volumetric) Residential Accommodation including the Manufacture and Delivery of Modules and full Site Construction Services	Central Housing Investment Consortium Limiter ("CHIC")	Elements Europe Limited +2	£2,045,000,000
YPO - 000976 Network Connectivity and Telecommunication Solutions	YPO	4Net Technologies Ltd T/A Four Net +37	£750,000,000
301_20 Liquid Fuels	ESPO	B.W.O.C Limited +5	£750,000,000
Medical IT	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	ABBOTT LABORATORIES LIMITED +72	£591,323,781
Technology Online Purchasing Content	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£500,000,000
HS2 Limited Tunnel and Lineside Mechanical and Electrical Systems	HS2	Costain Limited	£408,545,166
Public Sector Global Travel and Venue Solutions - Lot 2	Crown Commercial Service	Click Travel Ltd +2	£396,000,000
Overhead Catenary System for HS2 Ltd	HS2	COLAS RAIL LIMITED	£302,000,000
Occupational Health, Employee Assistance Programmes and Eye Care	Crown Commercial Service	ASE Corporate Eyecare Ltd +24	£220,000,000
HS2 Ltd Operational Telecommunications and Security Systems	HS2	Siemens Mobility Limited	£189,515,306

Contracts published in June 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 June 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.