Angus Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Local-authority-districtLocal authorityScotlandForfarCentral purchasing body on 7 of 36 notices

Find a Tender organisation id2479Websiteangus.gov.uk ↗

Open now1next deadline 28 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months23+77% vs prior 12 months (13)
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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 lot325% single-bid · 136 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 136 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share31%of 39 awarded procedures · 137 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.

39 awarded tenders, 137 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months54none 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£26mnet · on 97 of 155 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 21%
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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

1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Framework for the Supply, Installation and Decommissioning of Bus SheltersFramework2 lots28 Oct 202628d£5,900,000

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 · 36 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 64% (23 notices)
  • Framework 33% (12 notices)
  • Dynamic purchasing system 3% (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 83% (30 notices)
  • Route not published 11% (4 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 3% (1 notices)
  • Selective 3% (1 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 136 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3robust · n=13625% 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 36 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

327 of 36 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 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0.1% below estimatemoderate · n=3

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
Stagecoach East Scotland615.4%61320 Aug 2026
Shorts Travel Ltd615.4%5168 Jul 2026
Wisharts (Friockheim) Ltd512.8%5108 Jul 2026
JP Mini Coaches Ltd410.3%41020 Aug 2026
Moffat & Williamson Ltd410.3%4927 Mar 2026
Derek McNulty Joinery & Building Contractorsframework/DPS on 3410.3%285 Aug 2026
Scotblue Ltd37.7%3128 Jul 2026
Fairway Travel (Scotland) Limited37.7%358 Jul 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 31% of 39 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 137 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.

£26mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 97 of 155 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 21%.
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.

£215k middle valuerobust · n=97Middle half £140k–£284k; 40 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
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
Intensive Family Support ServiceAberlour Child Care Trust——£1,349,990 †
25001 Forfar - Brechin - Stracathro Hospital - EdzellStagecoach East Scotland——£1,318,668 †
A816 Arbroath – Montrose – Brechin Edzell/Stracathro; Montrose Town ServiceStagecoach East Scotland——£1,216,800 †
26001Arbroath - ForfarStagecoach East Scotland——£802,754 †
A612 Forfar - Brechin - Stracathro - EdzellStagecoach East Scotland——£721,073 †

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 · 120 of 231 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 54 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 71 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Tender for the supply of School Transport Services Commencing January 202624 lotsBuses and coachesAwarded / complete23 Dec 2025£5,000,000
Whole Family Wellbeing Support Service in AngusHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete3 Oct 2025£150,000
Provision of a Family Support Servicecentral purchasing body2 lotsSocial work services without accommodationAwarded / complete8 Sept 2025—
Tender for the Supply of Local Bus Services for September 20259 lotsPublic road transport servicesAwarded / complete31 Jul 2025£450,000
The Supply, Support and Maintenance of Schools Internet ConnectivityInternet networkAwarded / complete9 Jul 2025£300,000
Framework Agreement For The Supply And Delivery Of Bedding Plants, Bulbs, Trees & ShrubsFramework4 lotsBedding plantsAwarded / complete26 Jun 2025£1,000,000
Funded Early Learning and Childcare in AngusFrameworkChild daycare servicesAwarded / complete6 Jun 2025—
Invitation to Tender for the Provision of a Care and Repair Service in Anguscentral purchasing bodyResidential property servicesOpen26 May 2025£450,000
Provision of Rural Grass Cutting and Verge Maintenance14 lotsHorticultural servicesAwarded / complete14 Apr 2025—
Tender for Local Bus Services for March 20205 lotsPublic road transport servicesAwarded / complete17 Feb 2025—
Tender for the Supply of Local Bus Services for April 2021Public road transport servicesAwarded / complete14 Feb 2025—
Provision of Lone Working App and DevicesCommunication software packagePlanned13 Jan 2025—
Provision of home and community-based care and support services SDS 3 (2023 Angus Framework Re-Opened)Framework8 lotsHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete10 Jan 2025£2,132,000
Angus Community Wellbeing Centre - Support ServicesGuidance and counselling servicesAwarded / complete8 Jan 2025£2,000,000
Tender for the Supply of School Transport Services 202475 lotsBuses and coachesAwarded / complete18 Oct 2024£8,859,000
Urgent Repair and Jobbing Contracts 2025-2029Framework32 lotsAsbestos removal servicesOpen20 Sept 2024£16,000,000
Housing Aids and Adaptations 2025-29Framework3 lotsBuilding alteration workOpen12 Jul 2024£5,750,000
Provision of Rural Grass Cutting and Verge Maintenance14 lotsGrounds maintenance servicesAwarded / complete30 May 2024—
Provision of a Sensory Servicecentral purchasing bodyHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete5 Feb 2024—
Tender for the Supply of School Transport Services 20216 lotsHire of passenger cars with driverAwarded / complete2 Feb 2024—

Search all 71 procedures for this authority →

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 (£35m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 168 award records on 26 procedures (155 to a single canonical supplier, 13 multi-supplier). 97 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: 120 of 231 published contracts carry a period end; 54 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (6 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-114820GB-FTS-128868GB-FTS-138105GB-FTS-48017GB-FTS-55916GB-FTS-96061

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-2479