month in review

UK public procurement in August 2025

7,802 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in August 2025 by 1,466 buying organisations, 10% down on July 2025. 21.3% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

7,802

buyers

1,466

named a winner

6,782

awarded directly

21.3%

median value

£135,607

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on July 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	July 2025	August 2025	change
Surrey County Council	170	343	+173
Suffolk County Council	100	236	+136
Metropolitan Police Service	136	17	-119
NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board	8	126	+118
NHS Coventry and Warwickshire ICB	116	4	-112
Norfolk County Council	80	22	-58
Department for Education	100	43	-57
Buckinghamshire Council - e-Tendering System	49	100	+51
Leicestershire County Council	44	94	+50
Leicester City Council	73	35	-38

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of August 2025

contract	buyer	won by	value
Community Services - Kent & Medway	NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board	Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust	£1,841,958,368
PRO004337-Works-Contract-Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme	United Utilities Water Limited	Cascade Infrastructure Limited	£1,750,000,000
Elmbridge, Mole Valley, Surrey Heath and Woking Joint Waste Collection and Street Cleaning Services Contract	Elmbridge Borough Council	VEOLIA ES (UK) LIMITED	£526,947,718
Educational Supplies	Department for Education	named in the notice	£500,000,000
Decriminalised Parking and Traffic Enforcement Services	The City of Edinburgh Council	Marston (Holdings) Limited	£400,000,000
Money Transmission Services for Government Banking	HM Revenue & Customs	CITIBANK N.A. LONDON BRANCH +2	£334,000,000
Maintenance of Ventilation Systems (Including Smoke Dampers) and HVAC Hygiene Maintenance and Cleaning [5470794]	Business Services Organisation, Procurement and Logistics Service	AIRISQ LIMITED +4	£209,885,296
DfE - ApprenticeshipsNI 2025 Programme (Apps25)	Department for the Economy	21TRAINING LIMITED +29	£180,000,000
Forest Governance, Markets and Climate (FGMC) Phase 2 – Technical Assistance Portfolio Manager (TAPM)	Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office	Palladium International Limited	£175,000,000
A9 Dualling: Tay Crossing to Ballinluig	Transport Scotland	Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd	£155,000,000

Contracts published in August 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 August 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.