gvtcx

month in review

UK public procurement in February 2022

7,255 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in February 2022 by 1,420 buying organisations, 5% up on January 2022. 6.7% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices
7,255
buyers
1,420
named a winner
5,349
awarded directly
6.7%
median value
£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on January 2022

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.

buyerJanuary 2022February 2022change
Gloucestershire County Council 22 73 +51
Health & Safety Executive 71 119 +48
University of the West of England 59 16 -43
Scottish Government 63 101 +38
NHS Property Services Limited 25 62 +37
North West London Clinical Commissioning Group 0 36 +36
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport 50 17 -33
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 87 120 +33
NHS Arden and GEM CSU 12 44 +32
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 3 34 +31

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of February 2022

contractbuyerwon byvalue
NEPO505 Payment Card ServicesTHE ASSOCIATION OF NORTH EAST COUNCILS LIMITEDALLPAY LIMITED +3£6,053,000,000
PRN1487 Land, Design and Build -Derry, North and West BelfastChoice HousingKCS NI LIMITED£1,500,000,000
Y22009 - Flexible Procurement and Supply of Half Hourly (HH), Non-Half Hourly (NHH), Metered and Unmetered (UMS) Electricity with Additional ServicesKent County Council (t/a LASER)EDF Energy Customers Limited +3£1,250,000,000
0961-IRN Refresh 2022-New SuppliersEssex County CouncilHCMS6 Ltd +1£1,000,000,000
191_24 Electricity (Half Hourly Metered, Non-Half Hourly and Unmetered Supply)ESPOTotalEnergies Gas and Power Ltd£960,000,000
Advanced Wound Care and Lymphoedema Products and ServicesEU SUPPLY LIMITED365 Healthcare +61£500,000,000
Y22008 - Flexible Procurement and Supply of Natural Gas, Daily Metered and Non-Daily Metered with Additional ServicesKent County Council (t/a LASER)Corona Energy Retail 4 Ltd +1£500,000,000
Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA) Supplies and ServicesStudent Loans CompanyCapita Business Services Limited +1£400,000,000
Supply Teachers and Temporary Staff (STaTS)Crown Commercial ServiceCompanies House +1£400,000,000
Pre-market Engagement Exercise and Questionnaire for the Strategic Partner Project, Part of the EdIS Programme of workEducation Authoritynamed in the notice£250,000,000

Contracts published in February 2022 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 February 2022 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.