month in review

UK public procurement in February 2026

9,195 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in February 2026 by 1,637 buying organisations, 5% up on January 2026. 24.7% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

9,195

buyers

1,637

named a winner

7,870

awarded directly

24.7%

median value

£200,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on January 2026

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	January 2026	February 2026	change
UK Research and Innovation	283	433	+150
West Sussex County Council	18	167	+149
Birmingham City Council	79	15	-64
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board	64	0	-64
University of Exeter	19	77	+58
NHS England	164	107	-57
Hampshire County Council	86	32	-54
Norwich City Council	50	0	-50
Wilton Park	0	39	+39
University of the West of England	61	22	-39

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of February 2026

contract	buyer	won by	value
Construction works and Associated Services 2 / Procure 23 (CWAS2/P23) extended	Crown Commercial Service	This contract was awarded to 34 suppliers	£30,000,000,000
Adult Mental Health & LD - Connecting , Taster Sessions, Creative Arts	Aneurin Bevan University Health Board	GROWING SPACE	£12,357,914,400
Provision of Responsive Repairs and Maintenance Services and Planned Programme and Investment Works to Council Housing Stock	Birmingham City Council	Equans Regeneration Limited +2	£2,984,425,425
DOS 6	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£813,000,000
Managing Agent Services for the Co-Operative Development Society Limited	CDS Cooperatives	Plentific Ltd	£800,000,000
NEPO214 - Grounds Maintenance, Equipment & Plant	The Association of North East Councils Limited	AEBI SCHMIDT UK LIMITED +77	£800,000,000
RM6148 Quality Assurance and Testing for IT Systems 2	The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service (CCS	QUALITEST GROUP UK LTD	£800,000,000
Escalator Management Contract	TRANSPORT FOR LONDON	Otis Limited	£429,897,641
Stockport Council - Heat Network Development Partner	Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council	HEAT NETWORKS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY NO.1 LIMITED	£406,490,000
DoF - Collaborative Arrangement - Provision of Natural Gas 2026 -2029 (ID 5828888)	Department of Finance	FIRMUS ENERGY (SUPPLY) LIMITED	£250,000,000

Contracts published in February 2026 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 February 2026 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.