year in review
UK public procurement in 2023
93,016 contracts and tenders were published by 5,099 public buyers in 2023, 71,922 of them naming a winning supplier. The typical contract was worth £100,000. That is 7% more than in 2022.
notices
93,016
buyers
5,099
median value
£100,000
with a named winner
71,922
the biggest awarded contracts of 2023
Contracts published in 2023 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 7,556
- February 7,220
- March 8,969
- April 8,050
- May 7,513
- June 7,810
- July 7,992
- August 8,314
- September 7,881
- October 8,062
- November 7,249
- December 6,400
week by week
| week | notices | |
|---|---|---|
| week 1 | 1,341 | |
| week 2 | 1,836 | |
| week 3 | 1,793 | |
| week 4 | 1,862 | |
| week 5 | 1,914 | |
| week 6 | 1,783 | |
| week 7 | 1,749 | |
| week 8 | 1,768 | |
| week 9 | 1,951 | |
| week 10 | 1,864 | |
| week 11 | 1,887 | |
| week 12 | 1,873 | |
| week 13 | 2,138 | |
| week 14 | 1,908 | |
| week 15 | 1,986 | |
| week 16 | 2,025 | |
| week 17 | 2,117 | |
| week 18 | 1,512 | |
| week 19 | 1,537 | |
| week 20 | 1,812 | |
| week 21 | 1,922 | |
| week 22 | 1,400 | |
| week 23 | 1,877 | |
| week 24 | 1,766 | |
| week 25 | 1,749 | |
| week 26 | 1,758 | |
| week 27 | 1,873 | |
| week 28 | 1,910 | |
| week 29 | 1,761 | |
| week 30 | 2,019 | |
| week 31 | 1,994 | |
| week 32 | 1,880 | |
| week 33 | 1,836 | |
| week 34 | 1,833 | |
| week 35 | 1,722 | |
| week 36 | 1,829 | |
| week 37 | 1,908 | |
| week 38 | 1,746 | |
| week 39 | 1,872 | |
| week 40 | 1,888 | |
| week 41 | 1,795 | |
| week 42 | 1,824 | |
| week 43 | 1,863 | |
| week 44 | 1,810 | |
| week 45 | 1,008 | |
| week 46 | 1,863 | |
| week 47 | 1,775 | |
| week 48 | 1,853 | |
| week 49 | 1,800 | |
| week 50 | 1,770 | |
| week 51 | 2,050 | |
| week 52 | 406 |
most active buyers
| buyer | notices |
|---|---|
| Ministry of Defence | 2,306 |
| UK Research and Innovation | 2,179 |
| UK Shared Business Services Limited | 1,603 |
| Surrey County Council | 1,299 |
| Health Education England | 1,125 |
| Suffolk County Council | 1,095 |
| Milton Keynes City Council | 1,062 |
| NHS England | 936 |
| FCDO Services | 910 |
| Ministry of Justice | 897 |
| Bristol City Council | 867 |
| London Borough of Haringey | 815 |