month in review

UK public procurement in June 2021

6,371 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in June 2021 by 1,419 buying organisations, level with May 2021. 7.1% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

6,371

buyers

1,419

named a winner

4,618

awarded directly

7.1%

median value

£110,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on May 2021

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 2021	June 2021	change
FCDO Services	89	5	-84
Ministry of Justice	116	41	-75
UK Shared Business Services Limited	123	71	-52
Collaborative Procurement Partnership LLP	0	48	+48
West Dunbartonshire Council	49	2	-47
University of the West of England	9	53	+44
Department for Transport	119	84	-35
Public Health England	37	72	+35
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	78	44	-34
Radioactive Waste Management Limited	33	1	-32

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of June 2021

contract	buyer	won by	value
Purchases of Single Use Theatre Protective Clothing	COLLABORATIVE PROCUREMENT PARTNERSHIP LLP	FULL SUPPORT HEALTHCARE LTD	£1,774,730,734
Housing Construction	LHC on behalf of Scottish Procurement Alliance	Andrew Shepherd Construction +26	£1,500,000,000
Tail Spend Solution	Government Commercial Agency	named in the notice	£1,000,000,000
Schools and Community Buildings	LHC for the Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA)	CCG (Scotland) Ltd +12	£800,000,000
Tachograph Forensic Analysis Services	HM Revenue & Customs	Orchid Cellmark Ltd	£500,000,000
DLR Rolling Stock Replacement Project - Manufacture and Supply Agreement	Transport for London	CONSTRUCCIONES Y AUXILIAR DE FERROCARRILES S.A.	£345,691,553
Salisbury Square Development (SSD) - Main Works Contractor	City of London Corporation	Mace Limited	£315,000,000
Purchases of Single Use Theatre Protective Clothing	COLLABORATIVE PROCUREMENT PARTNERSHIP LLP	Guardian Surgical	£312,459,298
Purchases of Single Use Theatre Protective Clothing	COLLABORATIVE PROCUREMENT PARTNERSHIP LLP	MOLNLYCKE HEALTH CARE LIMITED	£308,587,535
C17 Synthetic Training Service	Defence Equipment and Support	BOEING DEFENCE UK LIMITED	£274,369,364

Contracts published in June 2021 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 2021 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.