Free monthly summary · July 2026

Who won UK public contracts last month

Every month we read the award notices across all five UK procurement portals and write up what happened in each sector. Who won, which buyers were busy, and how the notices were categorised. It is free and there is nothing to buy.

Sample radar · July 2026

Pick a sector

846
Notices published in construction and civil engineering
411
Of those, carrying an award
404
Separate buying organisations
£233k
Median award ceiling

Largest awards

SupplierContractBuyerCeilingNotice
Lovell Partnerships LimitedRegina Road Regeneration - Award of Main Contractor for Design and Build…CROYDON COUNCIL£140.05mView
Lovell Partnerships LimitedDesign & Construction of Fossetts WayTHE GUINNESS PARTNERSHIP LIMITED£53.32mView
Kier ConstructionAnglo European School - Main Works (con_31751)Department for Education£53.31mView
Kier Construction LimitedBerwick Academy ConstructionNorthumberland County Council£49.00mView
Kier ConstructionWellfield Academy - Main Works (con_31815)Department for Education£44.89mView

Most active buyers

  • National Highways Limited79 notices
  • Nottingham City Council27 notices
  • Environment Agency16 notices

Get next month's radar

One email a month, covering the sector and region you pick. It is free, there is nothing to buy, and you do not have to talk to anyone. We use the same matching engine that reads the full notice text rather than the category a buyer selected.

Award amounts are contract ceilings as published on the notice, not actual spend. Some notices carry placeholder figures, so treat totals as indicative and check the linked notice for anything that matters.

What the categories hide

A third of goods notices describe a service

Buyers pick a category when they publish. In July 2026, 1,285 notices were filed under a goods category, and 426 of them, 33.2%, carry service wording in the title.

Some of those are genuinely goods contracts that mention a service in passing. Plenty are not. If you run alerts against categories alone, these are the ones you never see, which is why our matching reads the full notice text instead.

From July 2026

  • Class SupportSTUDENT LOANS COMPANY LIMITED · filed under office machineryView notice
  • Mailing ServiceVIA EAST MIDLANDS LIMITED · filed under office machineryView notice
  • Fencing ServicesSEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED · filed under transport equipmentView notice
  • Catering ServicesWest Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner · filed under furniture and furnishingsView notice

Why we publish this

The radar started as our own test harness

We built it to check that our matching was working, then found it was more useful than the thing it was testing. Tenderbot is an alert service for firms bidding for public work. This page is the same data the alerts run on, summarised once a month.

4,367 notices across the eight sectors above in July 2026 alone.

See how the alerts work

Source: UK procurement corpus (Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales, eTendersNI), compiled OCDS. Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures cover 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-31 and were compiled on 2026-08-08. This page is not the authority of record, so check the linked notice before relying on anything here.