month in review

UK public procurement in February 2025

8,158 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in February 2025 by 1,697 buying organisations, 31% up on January 2025. 10.9% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

8,158

buyers

1,697

named a winner

5,876

awarded directly

10.9%

median value

£149,810

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on January 2025

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	January 2025	February 2025	change
University of the West of England	1	93	+92
Ministry of Defence	127	194	+67
North Yorkshire Council	73	32	-41
Darlington Borough Council	9	48	+39
British Council	15	53	+38
Ipswich Borough Council	51	13	-38
Hampshire County Council	24	61	+37
Government Legal Department	2	38	+36
Environment Agency	48	83	+35
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	38	5	-33

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of February 2025

contract	buyer	won by	value
Procurement for St Thomas Energy Project - Energy as a Service (EaaS) Solution for GSTT	Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	Meridiam	£2,000,000,000
Insulin Pumps, Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Products Contributing to the Delivery of Hybrid Closed Loop Pathways and Associated Products	Supply Chain Coordination Limited	Abbott Laboratories Limited +11	£1,067,000,000
Provision of Property Repairs and Maintenance Services	Peabody Trust	Axis Europe PLC +4	£1,023,577,180
Legal Panel for Government (LPG)	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£820,000,000
NP68424 Interventional Radiology	The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (NSS)	Abbott Medical U.K. Ltd +26	£810,000,000
Supply of Business Support Services Y25005	Kent County Council (T/A Procurement Services)	Capita Business Services Ltd +11	£750,000,000
Minimally Invasive Surgery	Supply Chain Coordination Limited	Advanced Medial Solutions Limited +64	£543,000,000
Supply of Education Management Systems Y25012	Kent County Council (t/a Procurement Services)	Bromcom +6	£500,000,000
PURCH2196 UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW - CONSTRUCTION FRAMEWORK	University of Glasgow	akp scotland Ltd. +11	£500,000,000
C1170 - Water and Wastewater Networks Maintenance and Associated Services	NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED	named in the notice	£400,000,000

Contracts published in February 2025 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 February 2025 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.