month in review

UK public procurement in November 2023

7,249 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in November 2023 by 1,608 buying organisations, 10% down on October 2023. 8.4% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

7,249

buyers

1,608

named a winner

5,391

awarded directly

8.4%

median value

£110,475

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on October 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	October 2023	November 2023	change
FCDO Services	91	245	+154
NHS England	140	67	-73
Ministry of Justice	91	35	-56
Surrey County Council	156	101	-55
UK Research and Innovation	221	170	-51
UK Shared Business Services Limited	147	105	-42
Leicester City Council	65	32	-33
Nottingham City Council	47	14	-33
London Borough of Haringey	101	71	-30
Department for Education	51	24	-27

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of November 2023

contract	buyer	won by	value
Multifunctional Devices (MFDs), Print, Digital and Cloud Software Services	The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£800,000,000
Total Workforce Solutions III: National and International Permanent Recruitment	HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting on behalf of	360MEDICARE PERSONNEL LIMITED +241	£700,000,000
A2Dominion Housing Maintenance Joint Venture for the London Region	A2Dominion Group Limited	Mears Limited	£575,000,000
Supply of Insurance Services	Kent County Council (t/a KCS Procurement Services)	named in the notice	£500,000,000
Children and Young People's Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for Southend, Essex and Thurrock	NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board	North East London NHS Foundation Trust	£450,000,000
Supply of Maintenance Services for Trace Detection devices in HMPPS	Ministry of Justice	Rapiscan Systems	£425,000,000
Property Maintenance and Refurbishment	Scotland Excel	Adman Int Ltd +86	£299,999,996
Innovative Platform for Home Based Services	BIP SOLUTIONS LIMITED	named in the notice	£249,245,180
The University invites Suppliers to respond to this opportunity for the provision of Facilities Management (FM) Services via a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) for a period of up to 10 years with services expected to commence on 1st July 2025. Following a procurement process in 2013, the University of Sussex entered into a Joint Venture with a Facilities Management provider, which led to the creation of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP), called Sussex Estates and Facilities (SEF), set up for the purpose of delivering Total Facilities Management (TFM) to the University. The University is the majority shareholder with the remaining shares allocated to the FM supplier	University of Sussex	OCS Group UK Limited	£170,000,000
Visa and Citizenship Application Services - Lot 5 - United Kingdom	Home Office	Teleperformance Contact Limited	£163,000,000

Contracts published in November 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 November 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.