month in review

UK public procurement in July 2020

3,787 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in July 2020 by 935 buying organisations, 12% up on June 2020. 7.8% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

3,787

buyers

935

named a winner

2,702

awarded directly

7.8%

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on June 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	June 2020	July 2020	change
Somerset Council	7	97	+90
The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS")	83	8	-75
Suffolk Sourcing	17	83	+66
Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council	13	54	+41
Met Office	58	25	-33
Bristol City Council	57	25	-32
National Highways	43	74	+31
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board	2	30	+28
Homes England (the name adopted by the Homes and Communities Agency)	10	36	+26
Cheshire west and Chester Borough Council	3	26	+23

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of July 2020

contract	buyer	won by	value
Provision for HM Treasury Core IT Service	Crown Commercial Service	NTT DATA UK LIMITED	£25,000,000,000
Commercial Agreement for the Provision of Employment and Health Related Services (CAEHRS)	DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS	Adecco Working Ventures +27	£7,500,000,000
YPO - 001008 The Supply of Water, Wastewater & Ancilliary Services	YPO	ANGLIAN WATER BUSINESS (NATIONAL) LIMITED T/A WAVE UTILITIES	£2,000,000,000
Energy Recovery Facility ('ERF') Construction Works including all Buildings, Infrastructure and Works for the North London Heat and Power Project ('NLHPP')	North London Waste Authority	Acciona Industrial S.A.	£683,000,000
Cambridgeshire County Council Nursing and Residential Block Bed Contracts	Cambridgeshire County Council	Anchor Hanover Group +13	£353,100,000
Ebury Bridge Major Works Design & Build	capitalEsourcing	Bouygues UK Limited	£350,000,000
Linen and Laundry 2020	HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust ("UHCW")	Central Laundry Ltd +3	£270,000,000
CONTRACT EXTENSION FOR HM TREASURY	Crown Commercial Service	NTT DATA UK LIMITED	£250,000,000
Programme Delivery Partner (PDP/001)	MINISTRY OF DEFENCE	JACOBS U.K. LIMITED +1	£250,000,000
Software License Resellers Agreement (SLRA) 2020	Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC)	Academia Limited +10	£250,000,000

Contracts published in July 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 July 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.