month in review

UK public procurement in October 2025

9,092 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in October 2025 by 1,602 buying organisations, 5% up on September 2025. 24.7% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

9,092

buyers

1,602

named a winner

7,848

awarded directly

24.7%

median value

£141,093

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on September 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	September 2025	October 2025	change
NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board	13	347	+334
Bristol City Council	404	122	-282
Leicester City Council	326	80	-246
University of the West of England	2	99	+97
Darlington Borough Council	149	72	-77
Norfolk County Council	15	80	+65
Somerset Council	75	12	-63
Birmingham City Council	77	19	-58
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board	63	8	-55
Surrey County Council	109	161	+52

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of October 2025

contract	buyer	won by	value
G Cloud 15	Government Commercial Agency	1SPATIAL GROUP LIMITED +3359	£70,000,000,000
Invitation to Tender (ITT) - Construction & Capital Works	Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited	7 FORMATION LIMITED +39	£9,500,000,000
NHS Genomic Medicine Service - Most Suitable Provider Process	NHS England	Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust +6	£3,850,000,000
HCC - 12/23 - The Provision of a Highways Services Term Maintenance Contract	Hertfordshire County Council	Jacobs U.K. Limited +1	£1,950,000,000
Provision of Temporary Agency Workers for Northern Ireland Civil Service, Agencies and Non Departmental Public Bodies	Department of Finance	JDR RECRUITMENT LIMITED +2	£1,443,500,000
Community Support for Men	Ministry of Justice	named in the notice	£712,039,028
Community Support for Men	Ministry of Justice	named in the notice	£712,039,028
Community Support for Men	Ministry of Justice	named in the notice	£712,039,027
Community Support for Men	Ministry of Justice	named in the notice	£712,039,027
Community Support for Men	Ministry of Justice	named in the notice	£712,039,027

Contracts published in October 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 October 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.