gvtcx

month in review

UK public procurement in September 2024

7,559 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in September 2024 by 1,599 buying organisations, 8% down on August 2024. 10.8% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices
7,559
buyers
1,599
named a winner
5,940
awarded directly
10.8%
median value
£100,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on August 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.

buyerAugust 2024September 2024change
Suffolk County Council 259 123 -136
Surrey County Council 260 160 -100
Leicestershire County Council 108 32 -76
Lincolnshire County Council 80 16 -64
North Yorkshire Council 87 148 +61
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust 6 62 +56
Nottinghamshire County Council 74 26 -48
Hampshire County Council 80 39 -41
National Highways 107 67 -40
Durham County Council 21 58 +37

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of September 2024

contractbuyerwon byvalue
Carmarthenshire Property Works FrameworkCarmarthenshire County CouncilA and J Landscapes & Property Maintenance +50£5,920,000,000
Modular Buildings 3N H S Shared Business ServicesActiform Ltd +35£2,600,000,000
Space Technology SolutionsThe Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Servicenamed in the notice£2,500,000,000
Waste Management Services Y24012Kent County Council (T/A Procurement Services)Biffa Waste Services Ltd +11£950,000,000
Electric Vehicle Infrastructure and Associated Solutions Y23049Kent County Council (T/A Procurement Services)AECOM Limited +42£800,000,000
New Homes for WalesLHC Procurement Group for the Welsh Procurement Alliance (WPA)Beech Developments (NW) Ltd +39£500,000,000
215_24 Specialist Vehicles (outright purchase)EspoAEBI SCHMIDT UK LIMITED +33£400,000,000
Responsive repairs and maintenance and grounds maintenanceForHousing LimitedLiberty Gas Group Limited +1£300,000,000
HCC - 04/23 - The Provision of a Highways and Environment Professional Services Contract - AWARDHertfordshire County Council - EnvironmentJACOBS UK LIMITED£290,000,000
RECODE - In Service Support for Combat Management Systems (CMS), Shared Infrastructure (SI) and Networks - Contract AwardedMinistry of DefenceBAE Systems Surface Ships Limited£285,275,277

Contracts published in September 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 September 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.