month in review
UK public procurement in June 2025
6,782 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in June 2025 by 1,482 buying organisations, 20% down on May 2025. 22.7% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.
most active buyers
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership - Procurement Services142
- Ministry of Defence124
- UK Research and Innovation83
- Network Rail Infrastructure Limited76
- Ministry of Justice75
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust74
- Sutton, Achieving for Children and Kingston68
- Hampshire County Council62
- Bouygues UK50
- National Highways48
who won most
- Softcat PLC40
- Cygnet Health Care Limited32
- Insight Direct (UK) Ltd22
- SNA Transport Limited22
- Civica UK Limited20
- Elysium Healthcare Limited20
- Abc Taxis 247 Limited16
- WSP UK Limited16
- Phoenix Software Limited15
- Allerton Damp-Proofing Limited14
biggest changes on May 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 | May 2025 | June 2025 | change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leicester City Council | 229 | 24 | -205 |
| UK Research and Innovation | 246 | 83 | -163 |
| NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership - Procurement Services | 47 | 142 | +95 |
| Transport for London | 100 | 21 | -79 |
| Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | 9 | 76 | +67 |
| Sutton, Achieving for Children and Kingston | 3 | 68 | +65 |
| Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 21 | 74 | +53 |
| Leeds City Council | 72 | 20 | -52 |
| Bouygues UK | 0 | 50 | +50 |
| Nottinghamshire County Council | 62 | 14 | -48 |
what was bought
- construction work 772
- health and social care 646
- business and professional services 495
- IT services 339
- software and information systems 338
- architecture and engineering 332
- transport services 274
- repair and maintenance 226
- education and training 224
- vehicles and transport equipment 172
the biggest awarded contracts of June 2025
Contracts published in June 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 June 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.