month in review

UK public procurement in April 2022

6,630 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in April 2022 by 1,412 buying organisations, 17% down on March 2022. 10.2% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

6,630

buyers

1,412

named a winner

5,083

awarded directly

10.2%

median value

£99,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on March 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	March 2022	April 2022	change
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust	168	42	-126
Met Office	13	111	+98
Home Office	131	51	-80
Ministry of Defence	198	133	-65
Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit	80	15	-65
Ministry of Justice	102	42	-60
The University of Birmingham	32	84	+52
UK Shared Business Services Limited	180	131	-49
Health Education England	76	27	-49
Cumbria County Council	106	58	-48

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of April 2022

contract	buyer	won by	value
Non Clinical Staffing	The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£2,500,000,000
Managed Staff Banks	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£2,000,000,000
Provision of Facilities Management	Crown Commercial Service	MITIE FM LIMITED	£540,000,000
Neuromodulation Devices Consumables and Associated Products 2023	NHS SUPPLY CHAIN	Abbott Medical U.K.Ltd +22	£457,463,323
Hallam Alliance - three delivery partners design led multi-disciplinary consultancy, construction works and hard facilities management	Sheffield Hallam University	BAM CONSTRUCTION LIMITED +5	£360,000,000
HE0134 Wiltshire Highways Maintenance Contract	Wiltshire Council	Milestone Infrastructure Limited	£300,000,000
DPS for Domiciliary Care Services in Powys	Powys County Council	ABACARE (CARE AGENCY) LTD +4	£259,418,730
DPS for Domiciliary Care Services in Powys	Powys County Council	ABACARE (CARE AGENCY) LTD +4	£259,418,730
DPS for Domiciliary Care Services in Powys	Powys County Council	ABACARE (CARE AGENCY) LTD +4	£259,418,730
DPS for Domiciliary Care Services in Powys	Powys County Council	ABACARE (CARE AGENCY) LTD +4	£259,418,730

Contracts published in April 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 April 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.