Aberdeen City Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Local-authority-districtLocal authorityScotlandAberdeenCentral purchasing body on 13 of 45 notices

Find a Tender organisation id757Websiteaberdeencity.gov.uk ↗

Open now2next deadline 15 Nov 2027
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months20-20% vs prior 12 months (25)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot212.1% single-bid · 33 bid reports
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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.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share14%of 84 awarded procedures · 210 suppliers
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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.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months2none within 6 months
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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 award value, 24m£239mnet · on 43 of 62 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 86%
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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

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of Employability ServicesDPS9 lots15 Nov 2027411d—

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What they buy
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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

How they buy
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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

Commercial tool
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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)
Procedure route
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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)
Typical bids per lot
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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.

Last 24 months, all categories.

2robust · n=3312.1% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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.

Last 24 months.

333 of 45 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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.

Last 24 months.

4% below estimaterobust · n=8

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Live Event Management LTD44.8%2422 Jun 2026
SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd44.8%2424 Feb 2026
SKYFORM (SCOTLAND) LTDframework/DPS on 444.8%0204 Nov 2022
‘Aberdeen Association of Social Service T/A VSAframework/DPS on 144.8%0416 Sept 2024
Care UKframework/DPS on 133.6%1320 Apr 2026
Turning Point Scotlandframework/DPS on 133.6%135 Mar 2025
WM Donald Ltdframework/DPS on 233.6%044 Jul 2023
Space Solutionsframework/DPS on 333.6%0429 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.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£239mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 43 of 62 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 86%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£480k middle valuerobust · n=43Middle half £49k–£1.8m.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
2024 Aberdeen City Council Care and Support at HomeGranite Care Consortium——£120,089,858 †
Kincorth New Build Housing ProjectOgilvie construction——£45,159,502 †
Provision of Emergency O&M Services - Energy from Waste FacilitySUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd——£18,000,000 †
Craighill New Build Housing ProjectCHAP Group——£16,191,382 †
Discharge to Assess ServiceBritish Red Cross Society——£7,069,764 †

Contracts ending
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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

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
Crowd ManagementShowsec international ltd31 Mar 2027£1,000,000
Crowd ManagementShowsec international ltd31 Mar 2027£600,000

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 133 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
The Destruction of Confidential Waste4 lotsRefuse and waste related servicesAwarded / complete14 Oct 2025—
Care At Home & Housing Support Service in Victoria Grange Very Sheltered Housing, AberdeeHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete25 Sept 2025£1,976,400
Discharge to Assess ServiceHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete24 Sept 2025£7,263,704
Single Building Assessment ServicesArchitecturalCancelled24 Sept 2025£500,000
Delivery of Spectra 2026 and 2027central purchasing bodyCultural event organisation servicesAwarded / complete17 Sept 2025£1,000,000
Single Building Assessment ServicesAdvisory and consultative engineering servicesPlanned1 Sept 2025£10,000,000
Housing Capital Projects 2026-30 - Internal works to HousesFrameworkBathrooms construction workCancelled27 Aug 2025£30,000,000
Housing Capital Projects 2026-30 - Internal works to HousesFrameworkBathrooms construction workOpen27 Aug 2025£30,000,000
Disposal of Residual WasteRefuse and waste related servicesAwarded / complete12 Aug 2025—
2024 - Aberdeen City - Adult and Young Carers2 lotsHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete4 Jun 2025£6,489,000
Kincorth New Build Housing ProjectConstruction workAwarded / complete30 May 2025—
Discharge to Assess Test for ChangeHealth and social work servicesPlanned28 Mar 2025£2,500,000
Care Home for Adults with Learning DfficultiesHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete25 Mar 2025—
Provision of Delivery Partner Services for Aberdeen Just Transition Collaborationcentral purchasing bodyDesign and execution of research and developmentAwarded / complete13 Mar 2025£200,000
Aberdeen City Complex Care ServicesFrameworkHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete5 Mar 2025£91,584,511
2024 Aberdeen City Council Care and Support at HomeHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete4 Mar 2025£117,716,381
MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing) Works and Services Framework ContractFramework2 lotsBuilding installation workCancelled27 Feb 2025£20,000,000
TPPL Aberdeen City Council – Highland Council DPS Category 3 – Up to 31 x Electric Charging Points (19198)DPScentral purchasing body5 lotsBatteriesAwarded / complete20 Feb 2025£425,000,000
Craighill New Build Housing ProjectConstruction workAwarded / complete19 Feb 2025—
Independent quantum expert in relation to disputesBusiness analysis consultancy servicesAwarded / complete17 Jan 2025—

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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.

GB-FTS-114973GB-FTS-11754GB-FTS-124531GB-FTS-155402GB-FTS-24234GB-FTS-68648GB-FTS-72143GB-FTS-82568

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-757