month in review

UK public procurement in July 2021

7,942 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in July 2021 by 1,483 buying organisations, 25% up on June 2021. 8% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

7,942

buyers

1,483

named a winner

6,091

awarded directly

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on June 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	June 2021	July 2021	change
London Borough of Haringey	83	259	+176
FCDO Services	5	167	+162
National Highways	48	172	+124
Surrey County Council	87	185	+98
Defra Network eTendering Portal	112	204	+92
Ministry of Defence	113	203	+90
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	44	127	+83
British Transport Police	4	81	+77
Department of Health and Social Care	64	139	+75
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council	25	94	+69

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of July 2021

contract	buyer	won by	value
Travel and Venue Solutions	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£11,500,000,000
Medical Examination Gloves and Surgical Gloves	NHS Supply Chain	Abena UK Limited +57	£6,000,000,000
Angiography & Hybrid Theatre Equipment and Related Services	NHS Supply Chain	Althea UK and Ireland Limited +13	£5,000,000,000
Visitor and Functions Catering	Historic Environment Scotland	Benugo	£3,800,389,440
Media Services	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£1,300,000,000
Procurement for Services related to COVID-19	Office for National Statistics	IQVIA Limited	£1,100,000,000
CCZI20A17 - Provision of Facilities Management Services to COVID-19 Testing Sites - Contract 1	Crown Commercial Service	SODEXO LIMITED	£888,875,000
GLA 81400 Collaborative Recruitment Services Contingent Labour and Permanent Recruitment.	Transport for London	Reed Specialist Recrutment Ltd ,	£840,000,000
CCZI20A17 - Provision of Facilities Management Services to COVID-19 Testing Sites - Contract 2	Crown Commercial Service	MITIE FM LIMITED	£752,125,000
FOR TRANSPARENCY PURPOSES ONLY - Challenger 2 Life Extension Project: Design Manufacture and In Service Support	MINISTRY OF DEFENCE	Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land Limited	£670,000,000

Contracts published in July 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 July 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.