month in review

UK public procurement in October 2024

9,011 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in October 2024 by 1,755 buying organisations, 19% up on September 2024. 10.7% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

9,011

buyers

1,755

named a winner

7,123

awarded directly

10.7%

median value

£115,547

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on September 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	September 2024	October 2024	change
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board	36	171	+135
Digital Defence Limited	0	98	+98
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB	0	74	+74
NHS England	91	146	+55
Suffolk County Council	123	68	-55
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust	62	8	-54
Lincolnshire County Council	16	61	+45
Nottinghamshire County Council	26	66	+40
Ministry of Defence	140	177	+37
Environment Agency	58	95	+37

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of October 2024

contract	buyer	won by	value
NHS Workforce Alliance Healthcare Solutions	The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service	ADECCO UK LIMITED +42	£5,000,000,000
SC24029 Highway Term Maintenance Contract 2026	Kent County Council	Ringway Infrastructure Services Limited	£2,000,000,000
Irregular Migration Management Services (IMMS) Lot 1 - Operator Services	Home Office	MTC Definitive Limited	£521,300,000
YPO 001185 -Refuse and Recycling Products including Wheeled Bins, Food Waste Caddies, Recycling Boxes and Distribution	YPO	Abfallbehalter & Container Weber UK Ltd +14	£500,000,000
Hard Facilities Management 3 (SBS10524)	N H S Shared Business Services Limited	ABCA SYSTEMS LIMITED +174	£400,000,000
Low Emissions Rolling Stock (New or Converted) for Chiltern Railways	THE CHILTERN RAILWAY COMPANY	named in the notice	£400,000,000
CF - Complete Ophthalmology Solutions 3	Supply Chain Coordination Limited	201 Silbury Boulevard, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK9 1LZ +52	£360,000,000
Patient Communication & Engagement Solutions 2 (SBS10521)	N H S Shared Business Services Limited	AIRE LOGIC LIMITED +34	£250,000,000
Blood Collection Devices	Supply Chain Coordination Limited	Balmung Medical Handel GmbH +18	£244,000,000
EPP0103 Integrated Recycling, Waste Collection and Street Cleansing Contract	Tendring District Council	Veolia Environmental Services	£220,000,000

Contracts published in October 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 October 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.