year in review

UK public procurement in 2021

77,988 contracts and tenders were published by 4,574 public buyers in 2021, 58,490 of them naming a winning supplier. The typical contract was worth £100,000. That is 68% more than in 2020.

notices

77,988

buyers

4,574

median value

£100,000

with a named winner

58,490

the biggest awarded contracts of 2021

contract	buyer	won by	value
Facilities Management & Workplace Services	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£35,000,000,000
Travel and Venue Solutions	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£11,500,000,000
Southern Integrated Delivery (SID) – Signalling and Track	Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd	Atkins Limited +1	£9,600,000,000
Storage, Distribution, Kitting and Associated Services	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£6,500,000,000
Medical Examination Gloves and Surgical Gloves	NHS Supply Chain	Abena UK Limited +57	£6,000,000,000
Single Use PPE and Medical Protective Consumables	NHS Supply Chain	3M United Kingdom PLC +75	£5,000,000,000
Angiography & Hybrid Theatre Equipment and Related Services	NHS Supply Chain	Althea UK and Ireland Limited +13	£5,000,000,000
RM6263 Digital Specialist and Programmes	Crown Commercial Service	named in the notice	£4,000,000,000
Visitor and Functions Catering	Historic Environment Scotland	Benugo	£3,800,389,440
Imaging, Radiotherapy, Endoscopy, Ancillary Devices and related goods & services	NHS Supply Chain	6 Wildflower Way, Boucher Road, Belfast, BT12 6TA +80	£3,720,500,000

Contracts published in 2021 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	1,156
week 2	1,329
week 3	1,436
week 4	1,262
week 5	1,419
week 6	1,373
week 7	1,214
week 8	1,456
week 9	1,496
week 10	1,448
week 11	1,449
week 12	1,679
week 13	1,599
week 14	1,324
week 15	1,547
week 16	1,605
week 17	1,607
week 18	1,486
week 19	1,549
week 20	1,662
week 21	1,616
week 22	1,086
week 23	1,493
week 24	1,483
week 25	1,518
week 26	1,525
week 27	1,883
week 28	1,594
week 29	1,827
week 30	1,937
week 31	689
week 32	1,171
week 33	1,571
week 34	1,828
week 35	1,304
week 36	1,711
week 37	1,545
week 38	1,493
week 39	1,638
week 40	1,758
week 41	1,600
week 42	1,551
week 43	1,670
week 44	1,661
week 45	1,608
week 46	1,480
week 47	1,550
week 48	1,673
week 49	1,672
week 50	1,733
week 51	1,634
week 52	380

most active buyers

buyer	notices
Defra Network eTendering Portal	1,823
Ministry of Defence	1,665
Department of Health and Social Care	1,341
UK Shared Business Services Limited	1,311
Surrey County Council	1,150
London Borough of Haringey	1,145
Cumbria County Council	1,071
Department for Education	1,031
National Highways	904
UK Research and Innovation	875
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	792
Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit	790

who won most

supplier	awards
Leyton Midland Cars	263
Softcat PLC	258
Insight Direct (UK) Ltd	257
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd	252
network cars (tottenham) ltd	211
Venesky Brown Ltd	209
Deloitte LLP	203
Alexander Mann Solutions Limited	202
Allen Lane Limited	178
CDW Limited	178
Harvey Nash	166
Computacenter (UK) Limited	164