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Public procurement in United Kingdom - October 2026
6,366 Notices
- 592 Awards
- 1,573 Buyers
- €244.5M Awarded value 58% carry a value
United Kingdom, October 2026: 6,366 notices from 1,573 public buyers. 592 contracts were awarded, worth €244.5M in all; 58% of them state a value.
Sector mix
Construction work: 16% of the month's notices that carry a sector
Notices published in October 2026, by sector
Table
| Sector | Notices |
|---|---|
| Construction work | 555 |
| Business services | 495 |
| IT services | 256 |
| Software & IT systems | 242 |
| Health & social work | 233 |
| Architecture & engineering services | 197 |
| Education & training | 179 |
| Transport services | 170 |
Source: Aperlena register, notices indexed as of October 16, 2026. See the data
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Largest published awards
- Optimizely Experimentation Platform Renewal ATOS IT SERVICES UK LIMITED €48,293,410
- Consultancy Plus Call Off via YPO Framework Reed Specialist Recruitment Limited (trading as Consultancy+) €24,463,388
- Tactical Hearing Protection System Specialist User (THPS SU) Attrition Stock RADIOCOMS SYSTEMS LIMITED €18,409,138
- TPC STRATEGIC DELIVERY PARTNER DELOITTE LLP €15,506,996
- S30123 RIS3 Analysis Division Technical Partner Arcadis Consulting UK Limited €13,444,234
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Method: counts come from official procurement notices aggregated by Aperlena; a notice belongs to the month it was published and an award to the month it was decided. Value sums cover only awards whose official notice states a value - the coverage percentage says how many do. Nothing is estimated.
Amounts in rankings and totals: an award amount is printed as its source publishes it. From EUR 50 million up, an amount is left out of every sum, ranking and list of the largest when it is more than 20 times its own notice's estimate, when the same buyer has already stated the same amount on an earlier award (a contract restated by later notices, or a ceiling shared by several lots, is counted once, on the earliest), or when it is above EUR 500 million and more than 100 times the 99th percentile of three years of awards in the same country and sector. The award still counts as an award, and its own page shows the published amount.
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Coverage: a country or a sector is covered from the first month since which its monthly notices hold steady up to today. Walking back from the last complete month, a month counts while it holds at least a third of the median of the three months after it. Earlier months are drawn hatched and labelled partial. No change is printed across them, nor when a month is more than double or less than half the one before: in this register that is a source being loaded, not a market moving.
Figures as of October 16, 2026, 04:40 UTC.