month in review

UK public procurement in September 2022

7,716 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in September 2022 by 1,452 buying organisations, 2% down on August 2022. 8.9% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

most active buyers

• UK Research and Innovation236
• Derbyshire Support Facilities Services232
• Suffolk County Council159
• Ministry of Defence157
• Surrey County Council138
• Cumbria County Council137
• Brighton & Hove City Council133
• Ministry of Justice115
• London Borough of Haringey113
• West Northamptonshire Council105

who won most

• NHS Supply Chain Coordination LTD T/a NHS Supply Chain34
• Chiltern Healthcare24
• Xpert Cars24
• Universal Cabs Ltd22
• Ingeus UK Limited20
• Civica UK Limited19
• Westminster Homecare Ltd19
• Quick Cars18
• VolkerLaser Ltd18
• Quick cab services ltd17

biggest changes on August 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.

what was bought

• construction work 999
• business and professional services 915
• health and social care 845
• transport services 650
• IT services 460
• architecture and engineering 443
• software and information systems 347
• education and training 336
• research and development 299
• repair and maintenance 294

the biggest awarded contracts of September 2022

Contracts published in September 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 September 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.