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UK public-sector tender statistics

What UK public bodies are putting out to tender, counted from the notices Tendarix lists: live UK notices, one page per tender. Values are the buyers' own estimates.

Updated · 2 November 2026, 12:07 (UK time)

3,528
Open for bids now
4,457
Published in the last 30 days
15,642
Published since December 2025
28 days
Median time to bid

Key figures

  • On 2 November 2026, 3,528 UK public-sector tenders were open for bids, with £71.8bn in advertised value (framework and DPS ceilings over £1bn left out).
  • 15,642 notices were published since December 2025, by 2,542 buyers; 4,457 of them in the last 30 days.
  • The median tender gave suppliers 28 days from publication to the closing date (28 for goods, 28 for services, 27 for works), across 6,784 notices with both dates.
  • 16% of the notices published since December 2025 were marked as suitable for small and medium-sized businesses.

Notices published each month

Notices by month of publication, with the total value stated in them.
MonthNoticesStated value
December 202519£856.5m
January 202624£522.3m
February 202633£3.4bn
March 202670£1.8bn
April 2026447£4.5bn
May 20261,215£7.4bn
June 20262,165£10.8bn
July 20261,718£10.2bn
August 20261,711£6.9bn
September 20263,434£22.6bn
October 20264,740£51.7bn
November 202666£1.2bn

By region

Open tenders now, and every notice from the last two years, by region.
RegionOpen nowLast 2 years
London4721,948
Wales3311,942
South East England3231,180
East of England289922
North West England282997
West Midlands2671,113
South West England233940
East Midlands194904
Scotland1771,566
North East England119521
Northern Ireland98368
Yorkshire and the Humber98281

By category

The 15 largest CPV divisions by notices in the last two years.
Category (CPV division)Open nowLast 2 years
Health & social care 850000005952,811
Construction 450000001791,193
Transport services 6000000066904
Business services 7900000095874
IT services 7200000038687
Architecture & engineering 7100000071653
Repair & maintenance 5000000069468
Software 4800000021454
Education & training 8000000078404
Waste & cleaning 9000000050334
Building materials 4400000056232
Vehicles & transport 3400000029226
Research & development 7300000023215
Medical equipment 3300000018198
Laboratory equipment 3800000014138

By stated value

Notices published since December 2025 that state a value.
ValueNotices
Under £25,000851
£25,000 to £100,0001,797
£100,000 to £500,0002,787
£500,000 to £1m1,017
£1m to £10m2,063
Over £10m1,084

By source

Where the notices published since December 2025 first appeared.
SourceNoticesShare
Find a Tender9,58061%
Contracts Finder3,42322%
Sell2Wales8005%
ProContract6254%
EU Supply3973%
Public Contracts Scotland2902%
Council:yortender-yorkshire670%
Council:barnsley-council580%
Council:atamis-1928-atamis-portal490%
Council:milton-keynes-city-council450%
TED (EU)360%
Council:birmingham-city-council350%
Council:preston-council290%
Council:west-northamptonshire-council190%
Council:barnet-council180%
Council:sandwell-metropolitan-borough-council150%
Council:se-shared-services150%
Council:coventry-solihull-warwickshire-jets150%
Council:esourcing-ni150%
Council:supply-hertfordshire110%
Council:buckinghamshire-council90%
Council:ypo2-atamis-portal90%
Council:newham-council80%
Council:atamis-7459-atamis-portal80%
Council:babergh-council80%
Council:central-bedfordshire-council60%
Council:walsall-council60%
Council:anchor-hanover-group50%
Council:atamis-2464-atamis-portal50%
Council:gedling-council50%
Council:hampshire-county-council50%
Council:portsmouth-city-council40%
Council:east-suffolk-council40%
Council:london-tenders-portal40%
Council:solihull-council30%
Council:blaby-council30%
Council:university-of-leicester30%
Council:wigan-council30%
Council:neupc-delta-esourcing-portal20%
Council:reading-borough-council20%
Council:the-west-of-england-combined-authority20%
Council:transport-for-wales-rail-limited-utility-buyer20%
Council:cambridge-council20%
Council:uk-research-innovation-ukri20%
Council:west-sussex-county-council20%
Council:dudley-metropolitan-borough-council20%
Council:ealing-council20%
Council:environment-agency20%
Council:kent-business-portal20%
Council:manchester-city-council10%
Council:supplying-the-south-west10%
Council:the-police-and-crime-commissioner-for-nottinghamshire10%
Council:corporate-officer-of-the-house-of-commons10%
Council:department-for-work-pensions10%
Council:east-midlands-combined-county-authority10%
Council:financial-conduct-authority10%
Council:london-borough-of-wandsworth10%
Council:luton-council10%

Most active buyers

Buyers with the most notices published since December 2025.
BuyerNotices
East Sussex County Council310
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board245
Suffolk County Council Passenger Transport213
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)190
Leicester City Council164
NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board123
Ministry of Defence112
Hull City Council108
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (NMD)106
NHS England104

How these figures are made

Counted over the notices Tendarix lists: UK notices from Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, the devolved-nation services and council portals, with duplicates merged and thin notices left out. "Open" means the closing date has not passed. Time to bid leaves out notices closing on the day they were published or more than a year later. The full method is on how our data works.

To cite: Tendarix, “UK public-sector tender statistics”, 2 November 2026, tendarix.com/statistics.