month in review

UK public procurement in April 2024

7,973 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in April 2024 by 1,582 buying organisations, level with March 2024. 12.6% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

7,973

buyers

1,582

named a winner

6,466

awarded directly

12.6%

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on March 2024

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	March 2024	April 2024	change
UK Research and Innovation	328	211	-117
North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board	7	115	+108
Westmorland and Furness Council	82	20	-62
UK Shared Business Services Limited	182	121	-61
Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit	63	12	-51
London Borough of Islington	51	6	-45
Cambridgeshire County Council	62	19	-43
NHS Property Services Limited	71	29	-42
Transport for London	24	65	+41
Defra	88	50	-38

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of April 2024

contract	buyer	won by	value
Income Generation from Estates and Assets	The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£950,000,000
Minor Works Framework for Building Maintenance	Pembrokeshire County Council	A T PLUMBING SERVICES +30	£560,000,000
RM6145	Crown Commercial Service	Ernst & Young LLP +1	£472,500,000
Survey Equipment Purchase	UK Hydrographic Office	NORBIT Subsea AS	£400,000,000
Asbestos, Legionella and Mould Management	Northern Housing Consortium Ltd	Addison Green Limited +32	£306,000,000
Asbestos, Legionella and Mould Management	Northern Housing Consortium Ltd	Addison Green Limited +32	£306,000,000
Delivery of Official Controls in Approved Establishments in England & Wales	Food Standards Agency	Eville and Jones +2	£303,000,000
Supply of Materials and Associated Delivery Services	Procurement Assist Limited c/o Integrated Facilities Management Bolton Ltd (iFM Bolton)	Bradford Building Supplies Ltd +7	£300,000,000
Construction work for university buildings	University of Greenwich	McLaren Construction (London) Ltd +4	£300,000,000
ICT14343 Traffic Technology Contract - Lot 4 North and Central	Transport for London	Yunex Ltd	£239,527,123

Contracts published in April 2024 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 April 2024 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.