year in review

UK public procurement in 2020

46,331 contracts and tenders were published by 3,141 public buyers in 2020, 33,199 of them naming a winning supplier. The typical contract was worth £100,000. That is 10% fewer than in 2019.

notices

46,331

buyers

3,141

median value

£100,000

with a named winner

33,199

the biggest awarded contracts of 2020

contract	buyer	won by	value
Provision for HM Treasury Core IT Service	Crown Commercial Service	NTT DATA UK LIMITED	£25,000,000,000
City Leap Energy Partnership	Bristol City Council	Ameresco +1	£12,000,000,000
Commercial Agreement for the Provision of Employment and Health Related Services (CAEHRS)	DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS	Adecco Working Ventures +27	£7,500,000,000
Technology Products and Associated Services (TePAS) Lots 1,3 & 4	Crown Commercial Service	ACS SYSTEMS UK LTD	£6,500,000,000
Technology Products and Associated Services (TePAS) - Lot 2	Crown Commercial Service	ACS SYSTEMS UK LIMITED	£6,500,000,000
Next Generation Munitions Solution	Ministry of Defence, Weapons, Defence General Munitions (DGM) Project Team	BAE Systems Global Combat Systems Munitions	£3,400,000,000
Next Generation Munitions Solution (NGMS)	MINISTRY OF DEFENCE	BAE SYSTEMS GLOBAL COMBAT SYSTEMS MUNITIONS LIMITED	£3,400,000,000
Energy Efficiency Measures & Associated Works	LHC for the Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA)	Aaron Services Limited +28	£3,200,000,000
Logistics and Warehousing	Crown Commercial Service	ADARE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED +24	£2,500,000,000
G-Cloud 12	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£2,500,000,000

Contracts published in 2020 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

week by week

week	notices
week 1	370
week 2	1,132
week 3	1,087
week 4	1,021
week 5	1,135
week 6	1,150
week 7	1,102
week 8	1,106
week 9	1,006
week 10	1,087
week 11	1,066
week 12	675
week 13	517
week 14	693
week 15	586
week 16	527
week 17	684
week 18	881
week 19	568
week 20	860
week 21	719
week 22	551
week 23	772
week 24	834
week 25	762
week 26	716
week 27	773
week 28	838
week 29	772
week 30	829
week 31	904
week 32	807
week 33	808
week 34	856
week 35	862
week 36	702
week 37	823
week 38	808
week 39	879
week 40	996
week 41	1,142
week 42	970
week 43	1,170
week 44	877
week 45	952
week 46	1,098
week 47	1,137
week 48	1,218
week 49	1,194
week 50	1,188
week 51	1,250
week 52	734
week 53	249

most active buyers

buyer	notices
UK Shared Business Services Limited	979
FCDO Services	740
Suffolk Sourcing	691
Defra Network eTendering Portal	637
Department of Health and Social Care	589
Leeds City Council	586
London Borough of Enfield	563
National Highways	545
Ministry of Defence	542
Home Office	460
Department for Transport	421
SE Shared Services	399

who won most

supplier	awards
Prestige Domestic Property Maintenance	184
Wilkin Chapman LLP	169
Softcat PLC	165
Insight Direct (UK) Ltd	136
Specialist Computer Centres PLC	120
Deloitte LLP	118
Harvey Nash	106
Computacenter (UK) Limited	104
Phoenix Software Limited	98
Dell Corporation Limited	96
XMA Limited	94
Civica UK Limited	90