Quantity surveying contracts
UK public sector · 254 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 254
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £72k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £52.3m
- 186 of 192 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 156
- Suppliers
- 154
93 quantity surveying contracts ending in the next 12 months
See which ones
BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most quantity surveying contracts took 19% of them (47 of 254).
- Contracts awarded per quarter held steady across the period.
- The median contract, £72k, is close to the median across consulting & accountancy contracts (£80k).
Who buys quantity surveying
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1City of London Corporation8 contracts£636k
- 2Highways England7 contracts£4.8m
- 3Wolverhampton City Council7 contracts£672k
- 4Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust5 contracts£678k
- 5UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)5 contracts£507k
- 6West Midlands Combined Authority5 contracts£273k
- 7NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde5 contracts£29k
- 8Surrey County Council4 contracts£5.8m
- 9East Suffolk Council4 contracts£152k
- 10NHS Property Services Limited4 contracts£44k
Top quantity surveying contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Currie & Brown15 contracts£1.4m
- 2AECOM9 contracts£631k
- 3Arcadis8 contracts£2.7m
- 4Rider Levett Bucknall8 contracts£440k
- 5Turner & Townsend7 contracts£13.8m
- 6WT Partnership7 contracts£583k
- 7Gleeds6 contracts£6.7m
- 8Gardiner & Theobald6 contracts£277k
- 9Waterman5 contracts£566k
- 10Pulse Consult5 contracts£449k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Coventry City Council to Currie & Brown · Awarded 6 October 2026
Value not published
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership to AtkinsRéalis · Awarded 30 September 2026
CBC-2127-Q-DS Quantity Surveying Service for Housing Delivery (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£4k
Central Bedfordshire Council to McDaid Quantity Surveying · Awarded 28 September 2026
City of London Corporation to Bellrock Property & Facilities Management · Awarded 25 September 2026
NHS Property Services Limited to Academy Consulting Solutions Limited · Awarded 24 September 2026
FRIMLEY HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST to AECOM · Awarded 23 September 2026
Met Office to Ward Williams Associates · Awarded 18 September 2026
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service to Gleeds · Awarded 15 September 2026
Medway NHS Foundation Trust to LH&E Cost consultancy · Awarded 14 September 2026
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to WT Partnership · Awarded 9 September 2026
Largest
Home Office to Gleeds · Awarded 27 March 2026
Home Office to Turner & Townsend · Awarded 27 March 2026
Surrey County Council to Mace Consult · Awarded 6 March 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to Turner & Townsend · Awarded 28 November 2025
AWE to supplier not published · Awarded 23 April 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 228 · Scotland 16 · Wales 7 · Northern Ireland 3
What is included
A client-side quantity surveyor or cost consultant who prices and controls the cost of capital works: cost plans, estimates, bills of quantities, tender analysis, post-contract valuations and final accounts.
- Cost plans and estimates at each design stage
- Bills of quantities and tender analysis
- Pre- and post-contract cost management and final accounts
- Commercial management and cost assurance on major works projects
- Cost estimating and forecasting for infrastructure programmes
- QS support to repairs and maintenance and housing capital programmes
What is not included
- Client-side project management of the same scheme -> csl.cpm.construction-project-management
- Employer's agent or contract administrator roles -> csl.cpm.employers-agent-contract-administration
- Multi-role project and cost teams let without splitting roles -> csl.cpm.construction-consultancy-unspecified
- Insurance reinstatement cost assessments -> csl.prop.insurance-reinstatement-cost-assessments
- The contractor's own estimating inside a works contract -> another industry: construction-trades