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Questions the official services hold the data for but do not answer. Each one is computed from the whole corpus, states what it counted, and says where it would be wrong to read more into the numbers than they support.
66,312 contracts awarded without competition 11.2% of contracts with a recorded route to market were given straight to one supplier, with no tender. Ranked by buyer, by share of their own activity rather than by volume. 31,038 contracts expiring in the next 12 months What is about to fall due for renewal, by buyer, by category and by quarter. The primary sources publish what has been advertised; none of them publishes this. 19 days how long you wait after bidding The median gap between a tender closing and the award being recorded, with the spread behind it and the buyers that take longest. 71.2% which buyers open contracts to small businesses The share of each buyer’s notices marked suitable for SMEs. A measure of access to the competition, not of who won it.
Every figure on these pages is derived from notices published by Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts are of contracting processes rather than notices, and values are medians rather than totals wherever framework ceilings would otherwise dominate — each report sets out its own method. sources and coverage · report an error