month in review

UK public procurement in June 2023

7,810 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in June 2023 by 1,581 buying organisations, 4% up on May 2023. 9.1% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

7,810

buyers

1,581

named a winner

5,963

awarded directly

9.1%

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on May 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	May 2023	June 2023	change
University of the West of England	83	20	-63
FCDO Services	29	92	+63
NHS England	89	38	-51
Ministry of Justice	95	49	-46
Ministry of Defence	190	234	+44
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust	23	66	+43
Newcastle University	39	3	-36
Defra	25	61	+36
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	38	72	+34
The University of Birmingham	37	71	+34

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of June 2023

contract	buyer	won by	value
Decommissioning Nuclear Waste Partnership	Sellafield Limited	A2R (Altrad Support Services Limited and AtkinsRéalis UK Li +3	£4,600,000,000
NHS Supply Chain Logistics Services Contract	Supply Chain Coordination Limited	GXO	£4,200,000,000
Scheme administration services contract	NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SAVINGS TRUST (NEST) CORPORATION	Tata Consultancy Services Limited	£1,500,000,000
Area Responsive Repairs and Planned Investment works	Anchor Hanover Group	Axis Europe PLC +5	£1,417,243,387
Cloud Compute 2	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£1,305,000,000
YPO - 001170 Specialist Vehicles	Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation	AEBI SCHMIDT UK LIMITED +62	£500,000,000
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure	THE ASSOCIATION OF NORTH EAST COUNCILS LIMITED	AMP EV LTD +7	£500,000,000
Reprocurement of BBC Facilities Management Services	The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)	EMCOR Group (UK) PLC	£480,000,000
Heathrow and Derwentside Immigration Removal Centres Procurement	Secretary of State for the Home Department	Serco Ltd	£461,000,000
Stockport 8 – Private Sector Partner	Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council	Muse Devleopments	£450,000,000

Contracts published in June 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 June 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.