month in review

UK public procurement in November 2024

7,544 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in November 2024 by 1,644 buying organisations, 16% down on October 2024. 11.9% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

7,544

buyers

1,644

named a winner

5,687

awarded directly

11.9%

median value

£118,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on October 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	October 2024	November 2024	change
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board	171	1	-170
UK Research and Innovation	229	104	-125
NHS England	146	49	-97
North Yorkshire Council	132	45	-87
Digital Defence Limited	98	15	-83
NHS Coventry and Warwickshire ICB	82	10	-72
Ministry of Defence	177	127	-50
UK Shared Business Services Limited	141	96	-45
Surrey County Council	140	96	-44
Lincolnshire County Council	61	22	-39

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of November 2024

contract	buyer	won by	value
South West Wales Regional Contractors Framework 2024	Carmarthenshire County Council	ANDREW SCOTT LTD. +28	£10,400,000,000
Rail (Including London Underground) Advertising Concession	Transport for London	Global Outdoor Media Limited	£2,322,600,000
Adults Community Services and Children's Community Services to the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, Wiltshire and Somerset Integrated Care System	NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board	HCRG Care Services Limited (ODS NQT)	£1,800,000,000
Bus Shelter Advertising Concession	Transport for London	JCDECAUX UK LTD	£1,063,200,000
Edinburgh BioQuarter Health Innovation District: Procurement of a Private Sector Partner	EBQ 3 Limited	named in the notice	£1,000,000,000
Supply Teachers and Temporary Staff 2 (STaTS 2)	The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service (CCS)	360MEDICARE PERSONNEL LIMITED +220	£650,000,000
Supply of Recruitment Services Y25007	Kent County Council (T/A Procurement Services)	Allen Lane Ltd +24	£500,000,000
Supply of HR Support Services Y25006	Kent County Council (T/A Procurement Services)	Blue Screen IT Ltd +14	£500,000,000
YPO - 001259 Street Lighting Products and Services	YPO	4way Consulting Ltd +43	£500,000,000
Commercial X - Neutral Vendor for Innovation	MINISTRY OF DEFENCE	Cosntellia Public Limited	£400,000,000

Contracts published in November 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 November 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.