month in review

UK public procurement in March 2022

7,944 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in March 2022 by 1,471 buying organisations, 9% up on February 2022. 8.6% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

7,944

buyers

1,471

named a winner

6,067

awarded directly

8.6%

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on February 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.

buyer	February 2022	March 2022	change
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust	17	168	+151
Home Office	34	131	+97
Health & Safety Executive	119	33	-86
UK Research and Innovation	178	115	-63
UK Hydrographic Office	3	59	+56
Gloucestershire County Council	73	28	-45
Scottish Government	101	59	-42
Bristol City Council	79	38	-41
Ministry of Justice	143	102	-41
Ministry of Defence	166	198	+32

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of March 2022

contract	buyer	won by	value
CHRT503-2021-22 -DS/DN - Greater Manchester Pharmacy Logistics Supply Chain Service	The Christie NHS Foundation Trust	named in the notice	£7,100,000,000
Purchase of Standard and Specialist Vehicles	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£5,520,000,000
G-Cloud 13	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£4,000,000,000
Major Works Investment Programme	LONDON & QUADRANT HOUSING TRUST	Amber Construction Services Limited +12	£3,500,000,000
G-Cloud 13 Lot 4	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£1,000,000,000
Flexible Framework for Self Directed Support including Care at Home Services Entry Point 2	North Lanarkshire Council	Allied Health Services Limited trading as Allied Healthcare +9	£820,000,000
Procurement of Leasing Facilities	Durham County Council	CHG Meridian UK Ltd +9	£500,000,000
Highways Delivery Partner - ABANDONED 10.3.22	Cheshire west and Chester Borough Council	named in the notice	£400,000,000
National Procurement for HIV and Preventative Treatments	NHSE&I	Abbvie Ltd +14	£270,000,000
AIRE - Advice Issue Reporting and Elligibility	Home Office	Migrant Help T/A Migrant Help	£235,000,000

Contracts published in March 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 March 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.