month in review

UK public procurement in November 2025

7,403 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in November 2025 by 1,490 buying organisations, 19% down on October 2025. 27.5% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

7,403

buyers

1,490

named a winner

6,376

awarded directly

27.5%

median value

£150,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on October 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	October 2025	November 2025	change
NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board	347	9	-338
NHS England	49	189	+140
UK Research and Innovation	272	171	-101
Surrey County Council	161	68	-93
University of the West of England	99	9	-90
Norfolk County Council	80	6	-74
Bristol City Council	122	59	-63
Buckinghamshire Council - e-Tendering System	103	56	-47
Darlington Borough Council	72	28	-44
NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB	40	5	-35

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of November 2025

contract	buyer	won by	value
Future NHS Workforce Solution	N H S Business Services Authority	Infosys Limited	£1,172,968,000
National Roads Telecommunications Service (NRTS) 3	National Highways	Telent Technology Services Limited	£643,624,252
Laboratories Managed Service	NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	Abbott Laboratories Ltd	£540,600,000
Laboratories Managed Service	NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	Abbott Laboratories Ltd	£540,600,000
704399451-71 - MSS/142 MRO082-CAN	Ministry of Defence	BAE Systems Surface Ships Limited	£317,000,000
Lightning Air System National Capability Enterprise 28-32	Defence Equipment and Support	Lockheed Martin UK Ltd	£220,000,000
Environment, Build, Support and Administration (EBSA)	Home Office	KAINOS SOFTWARE LIMITED	£200,000,000
Contract for Waste Collection and Street Cleaning	South Oxfordshire District Council	Biffa Waste Services Limited	£160,000,000
Engineering and Technical Consultancy	Scotland Excel	AECOM Limited +38	£160,000,000
Dressings	The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as Public Services Delivery Scotland ) (PSDS)	Crest Medical Ltd +13	£128,800,000

Contracts published in November 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 November 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.