UK Public Sector Regions & Market Data
Market data by the region of the organisation that buys: nine English regions plus Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each notice counts once, in the region of its buyer’s office, so the regions add up to the whole market.
Open tenders by region, right now
Tenders open for bids that you can deliver in each region, as the notice publishes it. 510 open notices cover the whole UK and count in every region, the way the search shows them. Open a region for its buyers, competition and winners.
Regions by activityi
Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
Sorted by notices published in the last 12 months · the bar is that count against the busiest region · competition columns: contracts awarded in the last 36 months by buyers in the region
| Region | Open now | Notices, 12m | Buyers | Bids / lot | Won locally |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Greater LondonUKI | 740 open → | 474 | 4 | 40% | |
South East EnglandUKJ | 744 open → | 420 | 10 | 53% | |
South West EnglandUKK | 707 open → | 293 | 4 | 39% | |
North West EnglandUKD | 739 open → | 282 | 4 | 47% | |
Yorkshire and the HumberUKE | 717 open → | 187 | 3 | 52% | |
East of EnglandUKH | 717 open → | 289 | 4 | 42% | |
West MidlandsUKG | 717 open → | 269 | 4 | 50% | |
East MidlandsUKF | 726 open → | 186 | 5 | 50% | |
Wales (Cymru)UKL | 663 open → | 163 | 3 | 47% | |
North East EnglandUKC | 677 open → | 107 | 4 | 46% | |
ScotlandUKM | 699 open → | 270 | 3 | 71% | |
Northern IrelandUKN | 566 open → | 110 | 3 | 60% |
Buyers: distinct contracting authorities publishing in the last 12 months. Won locally: single-supplier contract awards in the last 36 months won by a supplier registered in the region; dashes: fewer than ten awards with a known winner region.
Who buys in each regioni
Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
Share of the region’s notices by contracting-authority type · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies count as central government), else derived from the authority name
- Local authorities
- Central government
- NHS & health
- Education
- Housing
- Other public
- Other
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- How we count regions. A notice belongs to the region of the organisation that buys: the office address on its buyer profile, placed by the official ONS postcode lookup, and where one organisation published under several accounts, the address of its current profile. Each notice counts once, so the regions add up. A national body counts where its office is, so London includes government departments that buy for the whole country. Where the work is delivered is a separate fact: every tender page shows the place of delivery exactly as the notice publishes it, UK-wide included, and search filters by it. 959 of 213,559 notices come from a buyer without a known UK region and belong to none.
- Competition. Bids and winners cover the last three years and count each lot as its own contest; frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems are shown apart from ordinary contracts.
- Won locally. A contract counts as won locally when the winner’s registered address is in the same region. That address is usually a head office, so a national firm with a local branch reads as non-local.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.