month in review

UK public procurement in October 2022

7,719 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in October 2022 by 1,507 buying organisations, level with September 2022. 7.9% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

7,719

buyers

1,507

named a winner

5,876

awarded directly

7.9%

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on September 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	September 2022	October 2022	change
Derbyshire Support Facilities Services	232	47	-185
Brighton & Hove City Council	133	7	-126
UK Shared Business Services Limited	88	176	+88
University of the West of England	0	82	+82
National Highways	102	31	-71
Suffolk County Council	159	88	-71
Ministry of Justice	115	47	-68
Transport Scotland	1	45	+44
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	52	12	-40
West Northamptonshire Council	105	66	-39

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of October 2022

contract	buyer	won by	value
Competition for the 4th UK National Lottery Licence	The Gambling Commission	Allwyn Entertainment Ltd	£7,834,932,296
Digital and Legacy Application Services (DALAS)	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£4,200,000,000
Total Orthopaedic Solutions 3 (TOS3)	NHS Supply Chain	3D LifePrints UK Ltd +100	£2,062,000,000
Deep Tube Upgrade Programme - Rolling Stock	Transport for London	Siemens Mobility Limited	£1,436,685,810
Northamptonshire County Council - Highway Services (on behalf of West Northamptonshire and North Northamptonshire Councils)	West Northamptonshire Council	Kier Highways Limited +1	£1,200,000,000
Sheffield Care & Wellbeing Service - Home Care	Sheffield City Council	Be Caring Limited +13	£682,500,000
REPORTING SERVICES: TELERADIOLOGY (SBS 10228)	NHS Shared Business Services	4Ways Healthcare Ltd +9	£640,000,000
NNC- Highway Services	North Northamptonshire Council	Kier Highways Limited	£550,000,000
001142 - Digital Market Place	YPO	Amazon Business EU SARL +2	£500,000,000
Vehicle Hire Solutions Award Notice	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£450,000,000

Contracts published in October 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 October 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.