month in review

UK public procurement in July 2026

10,204 UK public sector tenders and contract awards were published in July 2026 by 1,762 buying organisations, 2% down on June 2026. 24.7% of those with a recorded route to market were awarded directly, without competition.

notices

10,204

buyers

1,762

named a winner

7,733

awarded directly

24.7%

median value

£160,000

most active buyers

who won most

biggest changes on June 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	June 2026	July 2026	change
Surrey County Council	14	255	+241
UK Research and Innovation	170	327	+157
West Northamptonshire Council	41	129	+88
Hampshire County Council	63	119	+56
East Sussex County Council	52	103	+51
NHS England	56	12	-44
North Yorkshire Council	56	14	-42
Nottingham City Council	65	26	-39
NHS Essex Integrated Care Board	44	7	-37
Suffolk County Council	62	95	+33

what was bought

the biggest awarded contracts of July 2026

contract	buyer	won by	value
YPO - 001086 Apprenticeships	Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation	BARNET & SOUTHGATE COLLEGE +11	£10,000,000,000
Functional Assessment Services (FAS) 2023 – Lot 5	Department for Work & Pensions	CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED +8	£2,796,800,000
Lewisham Council Strategic Partner Agreement	London Borough of Lewisham	HILL PARTNERSHIPS LIMITED	£1,850,000,000
Mental Health and Learning Disability Services	NHS SURREY AND SUSSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD	Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust	£1,403,096,000
Community NHS Health and Care Services	NHS SURREY AND SUSSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD	Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust	£1,083,240,000
YPO - 001314 Stairlifts and Associated Services	Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation	CARETECH UK LIMITED +13	£910,000,000
Residential and Nursing Care Home Services (Issue 1)	Staffordshire County Council	ALISON HOUSE CARE HOME LIMITED	£886,639,522
Architecture Design Services Framework	LHC Procurement Group	5th Studio Ltd +47	£600,000,000
Prison Operator Services Competition – HMP Rye Hill - UK4 Tender Notice	Ministry of Justice	named in the notice	£405,000,000
218_26 Specialist Vehicle Contract Hire/Leasing	Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO	AEBI SCHMIDT UK LIMITED (00557725) +30	£375,000,003

Contracts published in July 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 July 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.