month in review

UK public procurement in June 2026

10,451 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in June 2026 by 1,857 buying organisations, 2% up on May 2026. 23.8% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

10,451

buyers

1,857

named a winner

8,214

awarded directly

23.8%

median value

£250,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on May 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	May 2026	June 2026	change
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime	140	18	-122
Buckinghamshire Council - e-Tendering System	77	2	-75
NHS England	28	89	+61
Department for Education	86	26	-60
Suffolk County Council	118	62	-56
Sutton, Achieving for Children and Kingston	4	53	+49
London Borough of Waltham Forest	47	3	-44
NHS Essex Integrated Care Board	2	44	+42
Ministry of Defence	62	102	+40
UK Research and Innovation	130	170	+40

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of June 2026

contract	buyer	won by	value
Repairs & Maintenance and Planned Works Services Framework	CDS Cooperatives	10/10 FIX & REPAIR LTD +166	£2,500,000,000
Contract Award for The Provision of Extra Care Catering Services at Bristol Court	London Borough of Hounslow	SAVILLS CATERING LIMITED	£2,136,000,000
Construction Professional Services Lot 1	The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Government Commercial Agency	The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Government Commercial Agency +1	£1,922,500,000
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (LEVI Fund)	Essex County Council	Believ Limited +1	£633,000,000
Supply of Metered Electricity	NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED	3TPOWER LTD +1	£534,000,000
715870474 OSDEP LM UK5 - Transparency Notice	Defence Equipment and Support	LOCKHEED MARTIN	£512,560,000
Rough Sleeping Prevention and Resettlement-D2N1	Nottinghamshire County Council	FORTIX LTD +2	£500,000,000
Prison Operator Services - HMP & YOI Doncaster	Ministry of Justice	named in the notice	£387,000,000
Single Service Centre	Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency	Capita Business Services Ltd +1	£353,000,000
Surge Laboratory Capacity in the event of a Health Emergency	Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency	RANDOX CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICES LTD	£331,205,000

Contracts published in June 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 June 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.