month in review
UK public procurement in June 2022
5,423 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in June 2022 by 1,349 buying organisations, 28% down on May 2022. 8.6% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.
most active buyers
- University of Nottingham (The)108
- Ministry of Defence102
- London Borough of Haringey94
- Milton Keynes City Council92
- Defra Network eTendering Portal77
- Scottish Government70
- Cumbria County Council67
- UK Shared Business Services Limited67
- Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit63
- Health Education England50
who won most
- Softcat PLC33
- Emess Car Service24
- Insight Direct (UK) Ltd22
- Wright Care 2021 LTD19
- Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd15
- Chiltern Healthcare13
- St John Ambulance N.I.13
- Venesky Brown Ltd13
- Coastal Core Ltd12
- Green Light Transfers Ltd12
biggest changes on May 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 | May 2022 | June 2022 | change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suffolk County Council | 535 | 26 | -509 |
| Milton Keynes City Council | 304 | 92 | -212 |
| Surrey County Council | 205 | 27 | -178 |
| Cumbria County Council | 158 | 67 | -91 |
| University of Nottingham (The) | 38 | 108 | +70 |
| Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit | 118 | 63 | -55 |
| Nottingham City Council | 56 | 11 | -45 |
| NHS England | 76 | 33 | -43 |
| Homes England (the name adopted by the Homes and Communities Agency) | 58 | 16 | -42 |
| Sutton, Achieving for Children and Kingston | 42 | 2 | -40 |
what was bought
- construction work 661
- business and professional services 612
- health and social care 602
- IT services 400
- architecture and engineering 285
- education and training 282
- software and information systems 277
- transport services 246
- repair and maintenance 196
- research and development 192
the biggest awarded contracts of June 2022
Contracts published in June 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 June 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.