Public sector buyer
Transport for London
Transport for London has awarded 714 contracts worth £13,525,546,435 to 322 different suppliers between 2017 and 2026. Most of its award notices are recorded in London.
From award notices published on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. Contracts awarded through other e-tendering portals are not included, so this is a floor, not a total.
What they have awarded, by year
Our award history is not continuous. We hold notices published January 2021 to July 2022, and September 2022 to November 2022, and July 2023 to August 2026, and nothing published between December 2022 and June 2023 — a gap of 7 months. Any period overlapping that gap is understated here, and the change between periods is not a market trend.
- 2024£8,151,774,515 · 229
- 2025£2,077,699,593 · 219
- 2026£2,269,008,721 · 97
Years with no bar are years we hold no award notices for this buyer — which may mean they bought nothing, or that we do not have that period. We do not fill gaps in.
What they buy
- Transport455 contracts
- Business services63 contracts
- Architecture & engineering49 contracts
- Repair & maintenance30 contracts
- Construction26 contracts
- Vehicles24 contracts
- IT services17 contracts
- CPV 7317 contracts
- CPV 5113 contracts
- CPV 6312 contracts
Who wins their work
- Stagecoach East London51 awards
- London Central45 awards
- Metroline43 awards
- Arriva London North37 awards
- Stagecoach Selkent30 awards
- London General29 awards
- Arriva London South28 awards
- Transport UK London25 awards
- Blue Triangle22 awards
- London United21 awards
How contested their contracts are
Of the awards that report it, the average was 3.4 bidders, and 83 were awarded to a single bidder — 46% of that sample.
Based on the 180 of 714 awards that publish a bidder count — buyers are not required to, and most do not.
How often they buy
Across the period we hold, Transport for London has awarded a contract roughly every 0.2 months on average.
That is an average across all their categories, not a schedule — and it is not a prediction of when any particular contract comes up. UK award notices almost never publish a contract end date, so nobody can build a reliable expiry calendar from open data. Why that is, and what works instead.
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