Aberdeen City Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Aberdeen·Central purchasing body on 13 of 45 notices
Find a Tender organisation id757Websiteaberdeencity.gov.uk ↗
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 33 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
84 awarded tenders, 210 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of Employability Services | 15 Nov 2027 | 411d | — |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
45 Construction work12 procedures · 27%85 Health and social work services10 procedures · 22%71 Architectural, construction, engineering8 procedures · 18%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting7 procedures · 16%44 Construction structures and materials6 procedures · 13%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental6 procedures · 13%42 Industrial machinery5 procedures · 11%31 Electrical machinery4 procedures · 9%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 45 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 84% (38 notices)
- Framework 13% (6 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 2% (1 notices)
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
- Open 62% (28 notices)
- Selective 16% (7 notices)
- Limited / restricted 11% (5 notices)
- Route not published 11% (5 notices)
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 33 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 45 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 8 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Live Event Management LTD | 4 | 4.8% | 2 | 4 | 22 Jun 2026 |
| SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd | 4 | 4.8% | 2 | 4 | 24 Feb 2026 |
| SKYFORM (SCOTLAND) LTD | 4 | 4.8% | 0 | 20 | 4 Nov 2022 |
| ‘Aberdeen Association of Social Service T/A VSA | 4 | 4.8% | 0 | 4 | 16 Sept 2024 |
| Care UK | 3 | 3.6% | 1 | 3 | 20 Apr 2026 |
| Turning Point Scotland | 3 | 3.6% | 1 | 3 | 5 Mar 2025 |
| WM Donald Ltd | 3 | 3.6% | 0 | 4 | 4 Jul 2023 |
| Space Solutions | 3 | 3.6% | 0 | 4 | 29 Jul 2022 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 14% of 84 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 210 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| 2024 Aberdeen City Council Care and Support at Home | Granite Care Consortium | — | — | £120,089,858 † |
| Kincorth New Build Housing Project | Ogilvie construction | — | — | £45,159,502 † |
| Provision of Emergency O&M Services - Energy from Waste Facility | SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd | — | — | £18,000,000 † |
| Craighill New Build Housing Project | CHAP Group | — | — | £16,191,382 † |
| Discharge to Assess Service | British Red Cross Society | — | — | £7,069,764 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 17 of 199 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Crowd Management | Showsec international ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £1,000,000 |
| Crowd Management | Showsec international ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £600,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 133 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| The Destruction of Confidential WasteRefuse and waste related services | Awarded / complete | 14 Oct 2025 | — |
| Care At Home & Housing Support Service in Victoria Grange Very Sheltered Housing, AberdeeHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 25 Sept 2025 | £1,976,400 |
| Discharge to Assess ServiceHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 24 Sept 2025 | £7,263,704 |
| Single Building Assessment ServicesArchitectural | Cancelled | 24 Sept 2025 | £500,000 |
| Delivery of Spectra 2026 and 2027Cultural event organisation services | Awarded / complete | 17 Sept 2025 | £1,000,000 |
| Single Building Assessment ServicesAdvisory and consultative engineering services | Planned | 1 Sept 2025 | £10,000,000 |
| Housing Capital Projects 2026-30 - Internal works to HousesBathrooms construction work | Cancelled | 27 Aug 2025 | £30,000,000 |
| Housing Capital Projects 2026-30 - Internal works to HousesBathrooms construction work | Open | 27 Aug 2025 | £30,000,000 |
| Disposal of Residual WasteRefuse and waste related services | Awarded / complete | 12 Aug 2025 | — |
| 2024 - Aberdeen City - Adult and Young CarersHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 4 Jun 2025 | £6,489,000 |
| Kincorth New Build Housing ProjectConstruction work | Awarded / complete | 30 May 2025 | — |
| Discharge to Assess Test for ChangeHealth and social work services | Planned | 28 Mar 2025 | £2,500,000 |
| Care Home for Adults with Learning DfficultiesHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 25 Mar 2025 | — |
| Provision of Delivery Partner Services for Aberdeen Just Transition CollaborationDesign and execution of research and development | Awarded / complete | 13 Mar 2025 | £200,000 |
| Aberdeen City Complex Care ServicesHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 5 Mar 2025 | £91,584,511 |
| 2024 Aberdeen City Council Care and Support at HomeHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 4 Mar 2025 | £117,716,381 |
| MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing) Works and Services Framework ContractBuilding installation work | Cancelled | 27 Feb 2025 | £20,000,000 |
| TPPL Aberdeen City Council – Highland Council DPS Category 3 – Up to 31 x Electric Charging Points (19198)Batteries | Awarded / complete | 20 Feb 2025 | £425,000,000 |
| Craighill New Build Housing ProjectConstruction work | Awarded / complete | 19 Feb 2025 | — |
| Independent quantum expert in relation to disputesBusiness analysis consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 17 Jan 2025 | — |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£687m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 65 award records on 27 procedures (62 to a single canonical supplier, 3 multi-supplier). 43 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 17 of 199 published contracts carry a period end; 2 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (8 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-FTS-757