month in review

UK public procurement in July 2022

7,438 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in July 2022 by 1,554 buying organisations, 37% up on June 2022. 8.5% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

7,438

buyers

1,554

named a winner

5,616

awarded directly

8.5%

median value

£120,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on June 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	June 2022	July 2022	change
UK Research and Innovation	31	146	+115
Suffolk County Council	26	93	+67
University of Nottingham (The)	108	45	-63
Bristol City Council	32	94	+62
FCDO Services	12	72	+60
NHS North West London	0	55	+55
Sutton, Achieving for Children and Kingston	2	57	+55
NHS England	33	77	+44
Ministry of Defence	102	139	+37
National Highways	32	67	+35

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of July 2022

contract	buyer	won by	value
Everything Net Zero - Services, Products, Solutions, and Support for the public sector transition to Net Zero	East of England Broadband Network (Regional Broadband Consortium)	PLACE group Ltd	£70,000,000,000
Aseptically Prepared Dosebanded Medicines 2022	HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) Acting On Behalf of University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire	BAXTER HEALTHCARE LIMITED +3	£3,500,000,000
Vehicle Lease, Fleet Management & Salary Sacrifice	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£2,000,000,000
Children's Residential Placements - Consortia Commissioning	SOUTHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL	Catch22 +3	£2,000,000,000
DECONTAMINATION SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS (SBS 10183)	NHS Shared Business Services	B. Braun Medical Ltd +6	£1,700,000,000
National Collaborative Framework for Adult MH LD & CAMHS Hospital Services	NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)	Adferiad Recovery +27	£1,525,000,000
York Central Development	Network Rail Infrastructure Limited (Working in Collaboration with Homes England)	McLaren (York Central) Ltd	£1,100,000,000
Emergency Services Network (ESN) - Lot 3 Mobile Services 2015/24	Home Office	EE LTD	£1,000,000,000
Temporary Workers & Supply Teachers	Welsh Government - Commercial Delivery	Academics Ltd. +45	£800,000,000
Case 534484 Managing Agent for the Heat in Buildings Scotland National Scheme (HIBS)	Scottish Government	Warmworks Scotland LLP	£728,000,000

Contracts published in July 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 July 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.