month in review

UK public procurement in August 2022

7,909 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in August 2022 by 1,474 buying organisations, 6% up on July 2022. 7.1% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

7,909

buyers

1,474

named a winner

6,068

awarded directly

7.1%

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on July 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	July 2022	August 2022	change
West Northamptonshire Council	28	203	+175
Surrey County Council	28	182	+154
UK Research and Innovation	146	282	+136
Suffolk County Council	93	229	+136
Royal Borough of Greenwich - managed by GS Plus Ltd	1	109	+108
London Borough of Haringey	85	190	+105
FCDO Services	72	1	-71
Derbyshire Support Facilities Services	3	56	+53
Gloucestershire County Council	41	93	+52
Cumbria County Council	54	104	+50

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of August 2022

contract	buyer	won by	value
Offsite Construction Solutions - Lot 5 Extension	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£4,100,000,000
Mobile Voice and Data Services	Crown Commercial Service	Abzorb Systems Ltd +9	£2,518,000,000
Vertical Application Solutions	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£1,840,000,000
Future NHS Workforce Solution (including Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Services)	NHS Business Services Authority	Infosys Limited	£1,700,000,000
DWP Payment Contingency Service	Department for Work and Pensions	HSBC Bank Plc +1	£1,000,000,000
YPO - 001114 Food Deal 2	YPO	A.F.Blakemore And Son Limited +16	£500,000,000
Extension of North Wales Construction Framework (NWCF2)	Denbighshire County Council	C.WYNNE & SONS LTD T/A WYNNE CONSTRUCTION +25	£500,000,000
Spinal Implants and Consumables	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	Johnson & Johnson Medical Ltd +1	£497,464,292
Supply and Delivery of Construction Materials	Scotland Excel	A1 Ironmongery Ltd +53	£280,000,000
Delivery of Somalia Stability Fund III (SSF III)	Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office	Adam Smith International Ltd	£180,000,000

Contracts published in August 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 August 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.