Arts Council Of Wales: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

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Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months4+300% vs prior 12 months (1)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Contracts ending ≤18 months11 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£263knet · on 5 of 5 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
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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.

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 · 5 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 100% (5 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.

  • Direct award 60% (3 notices)
  • Open 40% (2 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 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

8indicative · n=20% 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 5 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

02 of 5 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 2 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 estimateindicative · n=2

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
THE ORCHARD MEDIA & EVENTS GROUP LIMITED114.3%1123 Apr 2026
Counterculture Partnership LLP114.3%1114 Jul 2026
RECORDPOINT SOFTWARE (EMEA) LTD114.3%113 Mar 2026
Art Events SRL114.3%1123 Oct 2025
ButCH114.3%1113 Aug 2025
Santander UK plc114.3%0128 Jan 2022
TIAA Ltd114.3%018 Feb 2022

7 awarded procedures across 7 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.

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.

£263kSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 5 of 5 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%.
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.

£43k middle valuerobust · n=5Middle half £30k–£61k.
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
Exhibition Services - Wales in Venice 2026Art Events SRL—1.2 yrs£113,300 †
≈ £97k/yr
UEFA 2025 cultural wrap around programmeTHE ORCHARD MEDIA & EVENTS GROUP LIMITED—5 mo£61,000 †
RecordPoint - Records365 licensing contract 36 monthsRECORDPOINT SOFTWARE (EMEA) LTD—3.2 yrs£43,257 †
≈ £14k/yr
Research into the Business and Operational Needs of the Arts Sector in WalesCounterculture Partnership LLP14 Jul 20261 mo£29,938
Climate Justice and Nature Connection Consortium - Scoping ExerciseButCH13 Aug 20257 mo£16,000

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 · 3 of 5 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
Exhibition Services - Wales in Venice 2026Art Events SRL7 Dec 2026£113,300

Recent procedures

Latest 7 of 7 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Contract Award Notice - Research into the Business and Operational Needs of the Arts Sector in WalesBusiness services: lawAwarded / complete14 Jul 2026£30,000
UEFA 2025 cultural wrap around programmeAwarded / complete23 Apr 2026—
RecordPoint - Records365 licensing contract 36 monthsAwarded / complete3 Mar 2026—
Exhibition Services - Wales in Venice 2026Awarded / complete23 Oct 2025—
Climate Justice and Nature Connection Consortium - Scoping ExerciseResearch and development consultancy servicesAwarded / complete15 Aug 2025£16,000
Internal Audit Servicescentral purchasing bodyInternal audit servicesAwarded / complete8 Feb 2022—
Online Banking Services / Gwasanaethau Bancio Ar-leinBanking servicesAwarded / complete28 Jan 2022—

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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 (£46k, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 5 award records on 5 procedures (5 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 3 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: 3 of 5 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 1 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (2 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-CHC-1034245GB-FTS-32875

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PLCD-3446-ZCPD