month in review

UK public procurement in August 2024

8,174 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in August 2024 by 1,638 buying organisations, 10% down on July 2024. 9.6% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

8,174

buyers

1,638

named a winner

6,406

awarded directly

9.6%

median value

£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on July 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	July 2024	August 2024	change
NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board	292	15	-277
Suffolk County Council	65	259	+194
UK Research and Innovation	350	213	-137
NHS Coventry and Warwickshire ICB	1	119	+118
Scottish Government	105	24	-81
London Borough of Haringey	139	60	-79
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board	90	14	-76
Laing O'Rourke Delivery Ltd	78	6	-72
Leicestershire County Council	58	108	+50
Surrey County Council	293	260	-33

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of August 2024

contract	buyer	won by	value
Facilities Management and Security Services	The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service	1a(1st Alliance) Services Limited +127	£120,000,000,000
ACQUISITION AND CONVERSION OF HEAVY GOODS AND SPECIALIST VEHICLES INCLUDING WASTE SKIPS, CONTAINERS AND BINS	THE ASSOCIATION OF NORTH EAST COUNCILS LIMITED	Aebi Schmidt UK Ltd +65	£1,100,000,000
NEPO508 Agency Staff	THE ASSOCIATION OF NORTH EAST COUNCILS LIMITED	Comensura Limited	£925,000,000
Supply of Training, Learning and Development Solutions	Kent County Council (T/A Procurement Services)	Acceler8 Global Ltd +13	£750,000,000
Roads and Infrastructure Maintenance and Improvement Services	North Lanarkshire Council	HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions GmbH	£450,000,000
Digital Directorate Partner	Scottish Water	Accenture (UK) Limited +1	£400,000,000
New Battery-Electric Rolling Stock for Chiltern Railways	THE CHILTERN RAILWAY COMPANY	named in the notice	£400,000,000
Services Concession Contract for Port Operation Services at the Port of Ramsgate	Thanet District Council	named in the notice	£325,000,000
664_25 Consultancy Services	Espo	31TEN CONSULTING LIMITED +279	£320,000,000
Management of Leisure Centres and Sport and Leisure Services	London Borough of Wandsworth	Greenwich Leisure Limited +1	£240,000,000

Contracts published in August 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 August 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.