month in review

UK public procurement in June 2024

6,735 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in June 2024 by 1,548 buying organisations, 8% down on May 2024. 11.6% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

6,735

buyers

1,548

named a winner

5,208

awarded directly

11.6%

median value

£112,037

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on May 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	May 2024	June 2024	change
Post Office Limited	8	116	+108
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB	3	62	+59
Met Office	4	60	+56
Ministry of Defence	173	119	-54
King's College Trust	51	0	-51
Surrey County Council	71	118	+47
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	23	69	+46
Department for Education	62	23	-39
The Crown Estate	0	37	+37
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	73	39	-34

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of June 2024

contract	buyer	won by	value
YPO 001164 - Legal services for WPS	YPO	Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP +6	£2,000,000,000
Media & Creative Services	The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service (CCS)	23RED LIMITED +24	£1,400,000,000
Supply of Financial Leasing Solutions	Kent County Council (T/A Procurement Services)	CHG-MERIDIAN UK Ltd +8	£800,000,000
Orthoses, Podiatry and Immobilisation 2025	NHS Supply Chain	A.Algeo Limited +62	£714,000,000
Supply of Education Services	Kent County Council (T/A Procurement Services)	Capita Business Services Limited +3	£500,000,000
Yorkshire Water AMP8 Smart Meters	YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED	named in the notice	£350,000,000
Reopening Sandwell Domiciliary Care Service - AWARD	Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council	All Round Care Solutions Limited +21	£300,000,000
Reopening Sandwell Domiciliary Care Service	Reopening Sandwell Domicilary Care Service	All Round Care Solutions Limited +21	£300,000,000
Market Engagement - Approved Installer List in relation to Scaling up Retrofit through ECO and GBIS	Birmingham City Council	City Energy Network Ltd +2	£265,000,000
Patient Mobility Products and Services - 2024	HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting on behalf of	AM Healthcare (Ability Matters/Opcare) +24	£250,000,000

Contracts published in June 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 June 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.