year in review

UK public procurement in 2019

51,375 contracts and tenders were published by 3,227 public buyers in 2019, 35,613 of them naming a winning supplier. The typical contract was worth £100,000. That is 21% more than in 2018.

the biggest awarded contracts of 2019

Contracts published in 2019 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.

month by month

• January 4,310
• February 4,218
• March 4,765
• April 4,897
• May 4,130
• June 4,096
• July 4,516
• August 4,105
• September 4,038
• October 4,584
• November 4,362
• December 3,354

week by week