APUC Ltd: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)·Scotland·Stirling·Central purchasing body on 22 of 33 notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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 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.
66 awarded tenders, 362 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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet8 procedures · 24%42 Industrial machinery7 procedures · 21%48 Software package and information systems7 procedures · 21%38 Laboratory, optical and precision6 procedures · 18%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals4 procedures · 12%34 Transport equipment and products4 procedures · 12%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances4 procedures · 12%44 Construction structures and materials4 procedures · 12%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 · 33 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.
Framework67%(22 notices)
22 of 33 notices are Framework (67%).Contract33%(11 notices)
11 of 33 notices are Contract (33%).
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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.
Open64%(21 notices)
21 of 33 notices are Open (64%).Limited / restricted18%(6 notices)
6 of 33 notices are Limited / restricted (18%).Route not published18%(6 notices)
6 of 33 notices are Route not published (18%).
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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 27 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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| Campbells Prime Meat Ltd | 8 | 12.1% | 1 | 20 | — |
| Henderson Loggie | 7 | 10.6% | 0 | 17 | — |
| KPMG | 6 | 9.1% | 0 | 15 | — |
| RSM UK Audit LLP | 6 | 9.1% | 0 | 10 | — |
| Ernst & Young LLP (EY) | 6 | 9.1% | 0 | 9 | — |
| VWR International Ltd | 5 | 7.6% | 2 | 23 | — |
| Wbg Services LLP | 5 | 7.6% | 0 | 11 | — |
| Campbell Brothers | 5 | 7.6% | 0 | 8 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 23% of 66 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 362 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 published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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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| Navigation Module for Gavia AUV | Teledyne Gavia | — | — | £195,000 † |
| Cell Sizing & Counting Device | Meritics Ltd | — | — | £59,360 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
Published end dates only · 12 of 230 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Veterinary imaging Systems | Aquilant Endoscopy Ltd, Canon Medical Systems, IMV imaging UK Ltd +7 | 9 Feb 2027 | £20,000,000 |
| Veterinary imaging Systems | Aquilant Endoscopy Ltd, Canon Medical Systems, IMV imaging UK Ltd +7 | 9 Feb 2027 | £20,000,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 122 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Streaming and Online Training Services (2)Adult and other education services | Open | 21 Nov 2025 | £10,000,000 |
| Student Placement Systems and Associated ServicesEducational software package | Planned | 6 Nov 2025 | £3,000,000 |
| Fresh Dairy ProductsClotted cream | Open | 30 Oct 2025 | £1,960,000 |
| Periodicals and Associated ServicesJournals | Awarded / complete | 13 Oct 2025 | £38,000,000 |
| Navigation Module for Gavia AUVNavigation equipment | Awarded / complete | 24 Sept 2025 | — |
| Water Quality ManagementInstallation services of machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying water | Open | 18 Sept 2025 | £13,300,000 |
| Cell Sizing & Counting DeviceMeasuring instruments | Awarded / complete | 18 Aug 2025 | — |
| Fresh Fish and Seafood (APUC)Fish | Awarded / complete | 15 Aug 2025 | £2,680,000 |
| SHEDL eBook Collections - Springer NatureEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 23 Jul 2025 | — |
| Innovative, value adding VLE Systems and Associated ServicesDatabase software package | Open | 9 May 2025 | £45,000,000 |
| SHEDL eBook Collections - Oxford University Press (OUP)Education and training services | Awarded / complete | 15 Apr 2025 | — |
| PPE, Workwear & Sportswear (APUC)Catering supplies | Open | 8 Apr 2025 | £171,520,000 |
| Cleaning Services for Scottish Association for Marine ScienceCleaning services | Open | 25 Feb 2025 | — |
| SHEDL E-Book Collections - ElsevierEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 11 Feb 2025 | — |
| Open Full Ocean Depth / Hadal Rated Benthic Chamber LanderMarine equipment | Awarded / complete | 21 Jan 2025 | — |
| Closed Full Ocean Depth / Hadal Rated Benthic Chamber LanderMarine equipment | Awarded / complete | 21 Jan 2025 | — |
| Electrical SundriesBallasts for discharge lamps or tubes | Open | 7 Jan 2025 | £14,000,000 |
| Sustainable FurnitureBedroom furniture | Awarded / complete | 19 Dec 2024 | £38,000,000 |
| Replacement of the ECMB ChillersCooling and ventilation equipment | Planned | 12 Dec 2024 | — |
| The Supply of General Laboratory Equipment and Associated ServicesAutoclaves | Awarded / complete | 21 Nov 2024 | £10,000,000 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 12 of 230 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.