Blackburn With Darwen Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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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 9 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.
24 awarded tenders, 31 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.
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
71 Architectural, construction, engineering3 procedures · 19%77 Agricultural, forestry, horticultural services3 procedures · 19%85 Health and social work services3 procedures · 19%34 Transport equipment and products2 procedures · 13%45 Construction work2 procedures · 13%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental2 procedures · 13%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 6%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting1 procedures · 6%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 · 16 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 81% (13 notices)
- Framework 19% (3 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 81% (13 notices)
- Limited / restricted 19% (3 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 9 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 16 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 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| Brook | 1 | 4.2% | 1 | 2 | 11 Dec 2025 |
| Grounds, Gardens & Trees Ltd | 1 | 4.2% | 1 | 2 | 4 Jul 2025 |
| Turning Point (Services) Limited | 1 | 4.2% | 1 | 1 | 7 Jan 2026 |
| Connected Kerb Limited | 1 | 4.2% | 1 | 1 | 19 Nov 2025 |
| Conlon Construction Limited | 1 | 4.2% | 1 | 1 | 7 Aug 2025 |
| Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust | 1 | 4.2% | 1 | 1 | 7 Jan 2026 |
| Tivoli Group Ltd | 1 | 4.2% | 1 | 1 | 29 May 2025 |
| Altitude Services Limited | 1 | 4.2% | 1 | 1 | 6 Mar 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 24 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 31 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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| Concession Contract for Local Electrical Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Installation, Operation and Maintenance | Connected Kerb Limited | — | — | £10,000,000 † |
| Improvement Works to King Georges Hall Blackburn | Conlon Construction Limited | — | — | £8,000,000 † |
| Provision of Landscape Works | Tivoli Group Ltd | — | — | £640,000 † |
| The Purchase of Two Refuse Collection Vehicles | Dennis Eagle Ltd | — | — | £506,350 † |
| Street Lighting Testing | Altitude Services Limited | — | — | £375,490 † |
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 · 4 of 36 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Tree Maintenance Services | Treetops De-Vegetation Services Ltd | 28 Feb 2028 | Not published |
Recent procedures
Latest 40 of 40 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Purchase of 2 x Refuse Collection VehiclesRefuse-collection vehicles | Awarded / complete | 13 Apr 2026 | — |
| Street Lighting TestingStreet-lighting maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 6 Mar 2026 | — |
| Tier 4 Detoxification: Lot 1 Inpatient DetoxificationHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 7 Jan 2026 | — |
| INTEGRATED SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICESFamily-planning services | Awarded / complete | 11 Dec 2025 | — |
| Concession Contract for Local Electrical Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Installation, Operation and MaintenanceElectrical services | Awarded / complete | 19 Nov 2025 | — |
| Improvement Works to King Georges Hall BlackburnConstruction work | Awarded / complete | 7 Aug 2025 | — |
| Provision of a Highways Verges, Amenity Land and Specialist Grass Cutting ServiceAgricultural | Awarded / complete | 4 Jul 2025 | — |
| Inspection & Reporting of Building Condition SurveysConsultative engineering and construction services | Awarded / complete | 2 Jul 2025 | — |
| Provision of Landscape WorksGrounds maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 29 May 2025 | £400,000 |
| Provision of Tree Maintenance ServicesTree-maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 12 May 2025 | — |
| Concession Contract for Local Electrical Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Installation, Operation and MaintenanceElectric vehicles | Open | 23 Jan 2025 | £10,000,000 |
| Management of Blackburn with Darwen Household Waste Recycling CentresRefuse and waste related services | Open | 14 Jan 2025 | £4,473,600 |
| Tier 4 Detoxification Inpatient Residential RehabilitationHealth services | Open | 16 Dec 2024 | £972,984 |
| Restoration of Aushaw MossEnvironmental services | Awarded / complete | 12 Dec 2024 | — |
| Inspection & Reporting of Building Condition SurveysBuilding consultancy services | Open | 30 Oct 2024 | — |
| Christmas Pantomime King Georges HallArtistic services | Open | 18 Oct 2024 | — |
| The Provision of Domestic Abuse ServicesHealth and social work services | Open | 24 Sept 2024 | — |
| Tier 4 Detoxification: Lot 1 Inpatient Detoxification and Lot 2 Inpatient Residential RehabilitationHealth services | Open | 7 Aug 2024 | £2,332,252 |
| Treatment of Green Garden WasteRefuse disposal and treatment | Awarded / complete | 19 Jul 2024 | — |
| Hire of 18 Tonne Road/Street Sweeper & DriverStreet-sweeping services | Awarded / complete | 11 Jul 2024 | — |
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 (£37m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 18 award records on 11 procedures (17 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). 10 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: 4 of 36 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (22 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-168829