UK Public Procurement Sectors & CPV Market Data

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The twelve divisions with the most tenders open for bids. Open one for its live tenders, buyers, competition and winners; a notice can sit in several divisions.

45 Construction & Civil Engineering481 open

85 Health & Social Care338 open

79 Business Services & Consultancy291 open

71 Architecture & Engineering262 open

50 Repair & Maintenance204 open

90 Cleaning & Environmental Services188 open

80 Education & Training142 open

72 IT Services & Software140 open

44 Construction Materials & Prefab132 open

31 Electrical machinery, apparatus119 open

34 Transport Equipment & Vehicles103 open

98 Community & Cultural Services98 open

Works

CPV division 45: building and civil engineering works. Sorted by notices in the last 12 months; the bar is that count against the busiest division.

Sector	Open now	Notices, 12m	Buyers	Classes	Bids / lot
Construction & Civil Engineering`45000000` · Construction work	481	9,556	2,428	25	4

Services

CPV divisions 48–98: services such as software, construction and engineering services, transport, health, education, cleaning. Sorted by notices in the last 12 months; the bar is that count against the busiest division.

Sector	Open now	Notices, 12m	Buyers	Classes	Bids / lot
Health & Social Care`85000000` · Health and social work services	338	9,203	1,823	12	3
Business Services & Consultancy`79000000` · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security	291	7,078	2,415	45	4
IT Services & Software`72000000` · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support	140	4,774	2,065	34	4
Architecture & Engineering`71000000` · Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services	262	4,026	1,773	29	5
Repair & Maintenance`50000000` · Repair and maintenance services	204	3,418	1,658	41	4
Software Packages & ERP`48000000` · Software package and information systems	92	3,319	1,451	51	4
Education & Training`80000000` · Education and training services	142	3,157	1,156	30	3
Transport & Passenger Services`60000000` · Transport services (excl. Waste transport)	85	2,961	770	20	3
Cleaning & Environmental Services`90000000` · Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services	188	2,156	2,362	30	4
Research & Development (R&D)`73000000` · Research and development services and related consultancy services	84	1,436	646	11	4
Financial and insurance services`66000000`	53	1,099	1,184	15	3
Community & Cultural Services`98000000` · Other community, social and personal services	98	870	904	17	3
Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services`55000000`	55	621	1,573	19	4
Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services`77000000`	85	606	910	18	4
Recreational, cultural and sporting services`92000000`	54	593	578	25	3
Postal and telecommunications services`64000000`	72	578	518	6	3
Administration, defence and social security services`75000000`	53	524	626	14	3
Real estate services`70000000`	41	464	552	11	4
Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services`63000000`	29	446	505	10	3
Installation services (except software)`51000000`	65	226	423	29	3
Public utilities`65000000`	20	127	277	12	4
Services related to the oil and gas industry`76000000`	6	27	50	16	3

Supplies

CPV divisions 03–44: goods, from food and fuel to medical equipment, vehicles and IT hardware. Sorted by notices in the last 12 months; the bar is that count against the busiest division.

Sector	Open now	Notices, 12m	Buyers	Classes	Bids / lot
Medical Devices & Pharma`33000000` · Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products	70	1,883	689	35	3
Transport Equipment & Vehicles`34000000` · Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation	103	1,375	844	42	3
Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)`38000000`	50	1,243	464	42	2
Construction Materials & Prefab`44000000` · Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)	132	965	842	37	4
Industrial machinery`42000000`	91	750	646	40	3
Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products`39000000`	77	722	705	35	5
Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting`31000000`	119	706	616	37	3
Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages`30000000`	32	644	656	11	4
Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment`35000000`	55	587	509	33	3
Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment`32000000`	35	572	629	28	3
Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy`09000000`	91	460	617	12	4
Musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories`37000000`	25	266	320	15	3
Food, beverages, tobacco and related products`15000000`	21	230	427	32	3
Printed matter and related products`22000000`	22	199	291	24	5
Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories`18000000`	21	183	370	30	6
Machinery for mining, quarrying, construction equipment`43000000`	29	157	229	17	5
Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products`03000000`	22	129	236	17	2
Chemical products`24000000`	20	124	189	17	2
Agricultural machinery`16000000`	8	108	133	22	3
Mining, basic metals and related products`14000000`	15	81	112	23	1
Leather and textile fabrics, plastic and rubber materials`19000000`	6	36	76	14	4
Collected and purified water`41000000`	4	7	14	3	—

Who buys in each sector
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.

Twelve busiest divisions · share of notices by contracting-authority type · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies count as central government), else derived from the authority name

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.
CPV sectors. Every notice carries Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) codes. The first two digits are the division (45 = construction work), the first four the class (4521 = building construction work). A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names, so sector figures are not added together.
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.
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.