month in review
UK public procurement in December 2022
6,249 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in December 2022 by 1,363 buying organisations, 21% down on November 2022. 9.9% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.
most active buyers
- Ministry of Defence145
- UK Shared Business Services Limited137
- UK Research and Innovation110
- Defra Network eTendering Portal104
- Cumbria County Council88
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office88
- Milton Keynes City Council88
- Surrey County Council72
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory68
- Ministry of Justice67
who won most
- Softcat PLC25
- Deloitte LLP17
- National Association of Primary Care (NAPC)16
- Phoenix Software Limited15
- WSP UK Limited14
- Emess Car Service13
- Insight Direct (UK) Ltd13
- Cumbria View Care Services Ltd12
- FEB Supported Living12
- Kpmg Llp12
biggest changes on November 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 | November 2022 | December 2022 | change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hull Royal Infirmary | 178 | 6 | -172 |
| UK Research and Innovation | 273 | 110 | -163 |
| Hee | 96 | 15 | -81 |
| Ministry of Defence | 206 | 145 | -61 |
| Department of Health and Social Care | 77 | 22 | -55 |
| East Hampshire District Council | 52 | 0 | -52 |
| London Borough of Haringey | 111 | 62 | -49 |
| Bank of England | 48 | 4 | -44 |
| University of the West of England | 2 | 45 | +43 |
| Surrey County Council | 115 | 72 | -43 |
what was bought
- business and professional services 726
- construction work 711
- health and social care 624
- IT services 459
- architecture and engineering 333
- transport services 320
- education and training 307
- research and development 306
- software and information systems 306
- vehicles and transport equipment 224
the biggest awarded contracts of December 2022
Contracts published in December 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 December 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.