year in review

UK public procurement in 2025

91,291 contracts and tenders were published by 6,765 public buyers in 2025, 72,131 of them naming a winning supplier. The typical contract was worth £140,000. That is about the same as 2024.

notices

91,291

buyers

6,765

median value

£140,000

with a named winner

72,131

the biggest awarded contracts of 2025

contract	buyer	won by	value
001086 Apprenticeships Round 7	Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation	ACCESS TRAINING (EAST MIDLANDS) LTD +153	£10,000,000,000
Invitation to Tender (ITT) - Construction & Capital Works	Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited	named in the notice	£9,500,000,000
NHS Supply Chain Logistics Service Provider	Supply Chain Coordination Limited	GXO	£4,400,000,000
NHS Branded Medicines Tranche B - MAE & NOFE - 1 September 2025	NHS England	Abbvie Ltd +20	£4,108,145,000
Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services 3 (CHFS3) VEAT notice	Transport Scotland	CalMac Ferries Limited	£3,900,000,000
NHS Genomic Medicine Service - Most Suitable Provider Process	NHS England	Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust +6	£3,850,000,000
Army Collective Training Service (ACTS)	Ministry of Defence	Elbit Systems UK Limited +1	£2,500,000,000
Limmo Opportunity	Places for London Limited	Ballymore Limited	£2,040,000,000
ACCESS Private Equity Allocators	HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL	Adams Street Partners LLC +1	£2,000,000,000
HCC - 12/23 - The Provision of a Highways Services Term Maintenance Contract	Hertfordshire County Council	Jacobs U.K. Limited +1	£1,950,000,000

Contracts published in 2025 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.

week by week

week	notices
week 1	127
week 2	718
week 3	1,724
week 4	1,796
week 5	1,878
week 6	2,070
week 7	1,996
week 8	2,850
week 9	1,155
week 10	1,373
week 11	1,548
week 12	1,739
week 13	1,750
week 14	1,887
week 15	1,944
week 16	1,439
week 17	1,363
week 18	1,809
week 19	1,390
week 20	1,953
week 21	3,505
week 22	843
week 23	1,139
week 24	1,596
week 25	1,822
week 26	1,754
week 27	1,791
week 28	1,894
week 29	1,926
week 30	1,703
week 31	2,019
week 32	1,996
week 33	1,959
week 34	1,750
week 35	1,611
week 36	1,858
week 37	1,823
week 38	2,013
week 39	2,143
week 40	2,038
week 41	2,186
week 42	1,944
week 43	1,771
week 44	1,824
week 45	1,731
week 46	1,873
week 47	1,918
week 48	1,773
week 49	1,975
week 50	1,361
week 51	1,746
week 52	1,034

most active buyers

buyer	notices
UK Research and Innovation	2,202
Leicester City Council	1,784
Ministry of Defence	1,435
Surrey County Council	1,290
Suffolk County Council	965
Bristol City Council	882
National Highways	789
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership - Procurement Services	736
Ministry of Justice	657
Hampshire County Council	618
Environment Agency	604
UK Shared Business Services Limited	567

who won most

supplier	awards
Softcat PLC	655
IBM UK Ltd	501
Skyline Taxis	435
CSG Usher's Ltd	318
Azoom Taxis	316
Phoenix Software Limited	303
Insight Direct (UK) Ltd	298
Barchester Healthcare Homes Ltd	273
Civica UK Limited	230
Alliance Transfer Service	229
WSP UK Limited	216
CDW Limited	198