Bolton Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·North West England·Bolton
Find a Tender organisation id58168
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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.
38 awarded tenders, 125 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
85 Health and social work services15 procedures · 44%50 Repair and maintenance services9 procedures · 26%98 Other community, social and personal services7 procedures · 21%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting3 procedures · 9%16 Agricultural machinery1 procedures · 3%45 Construction work1 procedures · 3%65 Public utilities1 procedures · 3%71 Architectural, construction, engineering1 procedures · 3%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 · 34 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 76% (26 notices)
- Framework 21% (7 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 3% (1 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 71% (24 notices)
- Limited / restricted 29% (10 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 34 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 7 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
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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| Jewel Home Support Ltd | 4 | 10.5% | 3 | 4 | 27 Jun 2025 |
| Premier Care Ltd | 3 | 7.9% | 2 | 4 | 27 Jun 2025 |
| Seva Line Ltd | 3 | 7.9% | 2 | 3 | 27 Jun 2025 |
| Bolton NHS Foundation Trust | 3 | 7.9% | 2 | 3 | 28 Feb 2025 |
| Home Care For You Limited | 3 | 7.9% | 2 | 3 | 27 Jun 2025 |
| The Local Care Company (Bolton) Limited | 3 | 7.9% | 2 | 3 | 27 Jun 2025 |
| P&R SERVICES, INVESTMENTS & TRADING LTD t/a P&R HEALTH CARE SOLUTIONS | 2 | 5.3% | 2 | 3 | 27 Jun 2025 |
| Care Connect Bury Ltd | 2 | 5.3% | 2 | 3 | 27 Jun 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 11% of 38 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 125 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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| Children and Young People's 0-19 Contract | Bolton NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £21,363,000 † |
| TC018 - Bolton Care and Repair Services Contract | Bolton at Home Limited | — | — | £3,414,777 † |
| TC104 - Special Education Need (SEN) Outreach Service | Woodbridge Trust | — | — | £3,320,000 † |
| TC052 - Social Inclusion Services | BACKUP North West | — | — | £1,443,000 † |
| TC046 - Bolton Albert Halls Pantomime | Shone Productions Ltd | — | — | £1,092,000 † |
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 79 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| TC057 – Bulky Waste Collection Contract | Bolton Community Furniture Store Limited | 30 Jun 2027 | £189,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 64 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| TC143 - All Age Prevention Flexible Purchasing System (FPS)Health and social work services | Awarded / complete | 21 Jan 2026 | £649,703 |
| TC077 - Bolton Cares Provision of Building Cleaning ServicesJanitorial services | Awarded / complete | 2 Jan 2026 | £330,000 |
| TC038 - Provision for Defence of Civil Litigation and Ad hoc Legal AdviceLegal services | Awarded / complete | 31 Dec 2025 | £516,024 |
| TC104 - Special Education Need (SEN) Outreach ServiceEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 23 Dec 2025 | £4,150,000 |
| TC052 - Social Inclusion ServicesSocial work and related services | Awarded / complete | 23 Dec 2025 | £1,443,000 |
| TC042 - Minor Housing Adaptations to Promote Independent LivingRepair and maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 23 Dec 2025 | £390,000 |
| TC243 - The Supply of Horticultural MachineryAgricultural machinery | Awarded / complete | 22 Dec 2025 | £495,000 |
| TC046 - Bolton Albert Halls PantomimeEntertainment services | Awarded / complete | 21 Aug 2025 | £1,092,000 |
| TC018 - Bolton Care and Repair Services ContractOther community | Awarded / complete | 20 Aug 2025 | £12,628,755 |
| TC258 - Fire Risk Assessments ContractBuilding and facilities management services | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2025 | £210,600 |
| TC254 – Electrical Maintenance ContractBuilding and facilities management services | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2025 | £1,336,203 |
| TC057 – Bulky Waste Collection ContractSewage | Awarded / complete | 2 Jul 2025 | £440,000 |
| TC031 - Home and Community Based SupportHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 27 Jun 2025 | — |
| TC250 – Fire & Security Maintenance ContractPublic utilities | Awarded / complete | 19 May 2025 | £1,422,975 |
| TC005 Framework for Highways Work 2024-2028Architectural | Awarded / complete | 4 Apr 2025 | £40,000,000 |
| Community Infection Prevention and Control (CIPC) ServiceAdvisory services provided by nurses | Awarded / complete | 28 Feb 2025 | — |
| TC004 - SEND Information, Advisory and Support ServiceHealth and social work services | Open | 11 Feb 2025 | £243,900 |
| TC089 – Facilities Management Reactive Work Flexible Purchasing System (FPS)Repair and maintenance services | Open | 22 Jan 2025 | £8,000,000 |
| TC259 - Asbestos Management ContractRepair and maintenance services | Open | 20 Dec 2024 | £778,782 |
| TC257 – Water Hygiene Services ContractRepair and maintenance services | Open | 20 Dec 2024 | £744,906 |
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 (£38m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 55 award records on 25 procedures (49 to a single canonical supplier, 6 multi-supplier). 17 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 79 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 (14 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-58168