month in review

UK public procurement in November 2022

7,878 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in November 2022 by 1,487 buying organisations, 2% up on October 2022. 8.8% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

7,878

buyers

1,487

named a winner

5,980

awarded directly

8.8%

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on October 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	October 2022	November 2022	change
Hull Royal Infirmary	13	178	+165
University of the West of England	82	2	-80
Hee	19	96	+77
Ministry of Defence	138	206	+68
Department of Health and Social Care	16	77	+61
East Hampshire District Council	2	52	+50
Transport Scotland	45	0	-45
UK Research and Innovation	232	273	+41
UK Shared Business Services Limited	176	136	-40
Derbyshire Support Facilities Services	47	9	-38

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of November 2022

contract	buyer	won by	value
Network Services 3 Award Notice for Lot 1a, Lot 1b, Lot 2a, Lot 3a, Lot 3b, Lot 4a, Lot 4b, Lot 4c, Lot 4d and Lot 4e	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£6,373,000,000
Parkway Towers, Parkway Heights and Parkway Grange, Decarbonisation Works	Leeds City Council	Equans Regeneration Ltd	£996,078,153
Demand Management and Renewables	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£800,000,000
Consultancy and Advisory Services for Health	N H S Shared Business Services	4C Strategies +161	£500,000,000
SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE WASTE & RECYCLING MANAGEMENT	N H S Shared Business Services	ACUMEN WASTE SERVICES +29	£500,000,000
The Provision of a Laboratories Managed Service on behalf of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	named in the notice	£447,936,000
Recyclables and Waste Collection Services Contract	Herefordshire Council	FFC Waste Services (UK) Limited	£366,095,000
DHSC Research Delivery Network Coordinating Centre	Department of Health and Social Care	UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS	£303,210,000
PRJ1146 Prison Healthcare Services	NHS England	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust +1	£302,838,669
HE0134 Wiltshire Council Term Highways Maintenance Contract April 2023	Wiltshire Council	Milestone Infrastructure Limited	£300,000,000

Contracts published in November 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 November 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.