month in review

UK public procurement in February 2023

7,220 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in February 2023 by 1,497 buying organisations, 4% down on January 2023. 9.1% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

7,220

buyers

1,497

named a winner

5,401

awarded directly

9.1%

median value

£96,784

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on January 2023

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	January 2023	February 2023	change
Defra Network eTendering Portal	171	51	-120
Transport for London	9	95	+86
Bank of England	58	3	-55
Derbyshire County Council	64	21	-43
UK Shared Business Services Limited	150	186	+36
London Borough of Haringey	47	79	+32
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust	33	3	-30
Thirteen Housing Group Limited	33	4	-29
North of England Commissioning Support	35	6	-29
NHS England North East and Yorkshire	29	1	-28

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of February 2023

contract	buyer	won by	value
SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT & INFRASTRUCTURE	N H S Shared Business Services	AMEY OW LIMITED +28	£500,000,000
Neuromodulation Devices and Associated Products 2023	NHS Supply Chain	Abbott Medical U.K. Ltd. +22	£457,463,323
Award of a Call Off Contract for Repairs, Maintenance and Associated Services	Torus62Ltd	Housing Maintenance Solutions Ltd (HMS)	£444,000,000
Actuarial Services	East Riding of Yorkshire Council	Aon Solutions UK Ltd +12	£350,000,000
Integrated Street Cleansing, Waste Collections and Winter Maintenance Services	London Borough of Brent	Veolia ES (UK) Ltd	£300,000,000
Residual Waste Treatment service is part of the Re-thinking Waste strategy. Surrey County Council is responsible for the disposal of this waste which presently comprises ~200,000 tonnes per annum.  The household residual waste volumes is anticipated to remain largely consistent, despite population growth, due to forthcoming legislation and initiatives within the waste market, such as Extended Producer Responsibility and Deposit Return Scheme.    The key requirements of the required Services will include:   The receipt of Contract Waste delivered by the SCC via separate haulage arrangements;  The provision of a Facility or Facilities to ensure consistent	Surrey County Council	SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd	£260,000,000
Operating Theatres Equipment and Related Accessories and Services	NHS Supply Chain	Acime UK Limited +40	£244,254,000
NHSGJ0090/22 Supply of Heart Valves and Associated Products	NHS Golden Jubilee	Biosensors International UK Limited +10	£214,755,582
Children with Complex Lives	West Sussex County Council	named in the notice	£130,000,000
TIQUILA Programme Mini-Uncrewed Air Systems	Ministry of Defence	Lockheed Martin UK Ltd	£129,350,000

Contracts published in February 2023 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 February 2023 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.