month in review

UK public procurement in July 2025

8,623 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in July 2025 by 1,636 buying organisations, 27% up on June 2025. 20.5% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

8,623

buyers

1,636

named a winner

7,253

awarded directly

20.5%

median value

£150,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on June 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	June 2025	July 2025	change
Surrey County Council	43	170	+127
Metropolitan Police Service	14	136	+122
NHS Coventry and Warwickshire ICB	8	116	+108
Department for Education	13	100	+87
UK Research and Innovation	83	154	+71
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited	76	10	-66
Suffolk County Council	38	100	+62
Bouygues UK	50	0	-50
Leicester City Council	24	73	+49
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	74	30	-44

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of July 2025

contract	buyer	won by	value
NHS Branded Medicines Tranche B - MAE & NOFE - 1 September 2025	NHS England	Abbvie Ltd +20	£4,108,145,000
Leeds City Centre Heat Network	Leeds City Council	HEMIKO LIMITED	£3,405,000,000
Limmo Opportunity	Places for London Limited	Ballymore Limited	£2,040,000,000
HMRC Customer Relationship Management	HM Revenue & Customs	SALESFORCE UK LIMITED	£2,000,000,000
CF CAN Advanced Wound Care	Supply Chain Coordination Limited	Absorbest AB +56	£1,467,008,032
TfL 95052 Bollo Lane Opportunity	Places for London	BDW Trading Limited	£1,025,000,000
HMP Thameside	Ministry of Justice	BWP Project Services Limited +1	£937,000,000
Contract for the provision of operational, management, maintenance and related works and services at Campsfield House IRC	Home Office	Mitie Care and Custody Limited	£425,000,000
Proprietary Drugs	eTenderwales	Abbvie Limited +71	£392,774,896
LPP/2024/001 Contrast Media and Associated Injectors/Consumables	NHS London Procurement Partnership (Hosted by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS FT)	Bayer Plc +5	£382,877,289

Contracts published in July 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 July 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.