Despite the total value of UK outsourcing deals signed in the first quarter of 2015 dropping year-on-year, the value of outsourcing contracts in the local government sector reached a five-quarter high at the end of March 2015, according to analysis conducted by arvato and NelsonHall.

arvato also reported that new deals signed with the public sector totalled £350 million in Q1 2015, meaning that the public sector accounted for 65 per cent of total contracts agreed in the UK.

It is likely that private sector outsourcing slowed at the beginning of 2015 due to uncertainty surrounding the general election. Kerry Hallard, CEO of the National Outsourcing Association, has since suggested that the UK will see a “plethora of new outsourcing deals in the coming months” now that a stable Conservative government has been confirmed.

You can find the full UK Outsourcing Index on arvato’s website.

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