month in review

UK public procurement in July 2024

9,051 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in July 2024 by 1,676 buying organisations, 34% up on June 2024. 9.7% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

9,051

buyers

1,676

named a winner

7,076

awarded directly

9.7%

median value

£114,300

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on June 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	June 2024	July 2024	change
NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board	6	292	+286
UK Research and Innovation	95	350	+255
Surrey County Council	118	293	+175
Post Office Limited	116	11	-105
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board	3	90	+87
Laing O'Rourke Delivery Ltd	1	78	+77
Lincolnshire County Council	14	86	+72
London Borough of Haringey	76	139	+63
The University of Birmingham	20	83	+63
Scottish Government	44	105	+61

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of July 2024

contract	buyer	won by	value
Back Office Software 2	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£5,000,000,000
Residual waste contract	London Borough of Barking and Dagenham	Cory Topco Ltd	£830,000,000
NOE CPC Total Waste Management Services III	North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative	Biffa Waste Services Ltd +26	£800,000,000
NHS National Generic Pharmaceuticals Wave 15a	NHS England	Abbvie Ltd +114	£379,041,943
Syringes, Needles including Biopsy and Associated Products	Supply Chain Coordination Limited	Non Award	£340,000,000
RM6326	The Cabinet Office	Capita Pension Solutions Limited +1	£310,000,000
Modern Apprenticeship Services - Learning Provider and Employer 2024-2025	Skills Development Scotland Co. Limited	Aberdeenshire Council +204	£277,793,000
Domestic & Commercial Heating Contract	LONDON BOROUGH OF HAVERING	K&T Heating	£140,000,000
NICS Provision of Security and Ancillary Services 2024	Department for Communities	G4S SECURE SOLUTIONS UK LTD	£140,000,000
Investment in Forests and Sustainable Land Use Phase II (IFSLU2) Programme - Component 1 and 2	Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office	Palladium International Ltd	£129,744,000

Contracts published in July 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 July 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.