Central Bedfordshire 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 26 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.
101 awarded tenders, 171 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
45 Construction work25 procedures · 24%50 Repair and maintenance services14 procedures · 13%85 Health and social work services14 procedures · 13%55 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services9 procedures · 8%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting8 procedures · 8%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental8 procedures · 8%98 Other community, social and personal services8 procedures · 8%71 Architectural, construction, engineering7 procedures · 7%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 · 106 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 91% (96 notices)
- Framework 9% (10 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 42% (44 notices)
- Route not published 24% (25 notices)
- Direct award 16% (17 notices)
- Limited / restricted 12% (13 notices)
- Selective 7% (7 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 26 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 26 decided tenders across all categories, 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 106 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 11 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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| GB Construction (Herts) Limited | 4 | 4% | 3 | 4 | 22 Sept 2026 |
| CYS Security Ltd | 3 | 3% | 0 | 4 | 1 Feb 2023 |
| Farrans Construction trading as a division of Northstone (NI) Ltd. | 3 | 3% | 0 | 3 | 4 May 2022 |
| Ashby Fire Safety Services Ltd | 2 | 2% | 2 | 2 | 23 Jun 2026 |
| Royal Industrial Doors | 2 | 2% | 2 | 2 | 16 Feb 2026 |
| RJ Lifts Group Ltd | 2 | 2% | 2 | 2 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| Sureserve Fire and Electrical Limited | 2 | 2% | 2 | 2 | 13 Apr 2026 |
| AECOM LIMITED | 2 | 2% | 0 | 2 | 20 Sept 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 10% of 101 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 171 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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| Rural and Urban Grounds Maintenance Services | John O'Conner | — | — | £10,914,904 † |
| Rural and Urban Grounds Maintenance Services | MJ Granger Grounds Maintenance Ltd | — | — | £4,807,416 † |
| Domestic and Communal Electrical Installation | DHE Group Ltd | 16 Dec 2025 | 2.9 yrs · up to 4.9 yrs | £3,875,000 ≈ £1.3m/yr |
| Digital Platform | Netcall Technology Limited | 20 Jun 2026 | 2.9 yrs · up to 6.9 yrs | £1,395,369 ≈ £478k/yr |
| Youth Support Services | The Children's Society | — | — | £920,000 † |
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 · 47 of 135 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Maintenance and installation of Doors and Door Entry Systems and Maintenance of Assisted Living Equipment | Openview Security Solutions Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £75,000 |
| Holme Farm Wind Farm Impact Assessment | RENEWABLE DYNAMICS LIMITED | 30 Sept 2026 | £37,400 |
| CBC-2158-W-26261-SM Priory View Air Conditioning Repairs | T.S.G. BUILDING SERVICES PLC | 31 Oct 2026 | £28,246 |
| Specialist Fire & Building Safety Advice | Ashby Fire Safety Services Ltd | 2 Nov 2026 | £150,000 |
| CBC-1970-T-SM A&A Works-Single Story Extension | Poplars Construction Ltd | 18 Dec 2026 | £116,833 |
| CBC-2128-W-DS ResilienTogether – Communications & Engagement Delivery | 3KQ Limited | 18 Dec 2026 | £31,200 |
| Implementation Support for Arcus BE5 | Kapas Consultancy | 31 Dec 2026 | £50,000 |
| Aids and Adaptation Construction Works at four dwellings | Modplan | 29 Jan 2027 | £369,292 |
| Spot Purchasing of Private Transitional Accommodation | RENT CONNECT HOUSING LIMITED | 5 Feb 2027 | £200,000 |
| CBC-1900-Q-SM New Replacement "Exit Doors" | Royal Industrial Doors | 15 Feb 2027 | £70,800 |
Soonest 10 of 25 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 217 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£505m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 52 award records on 47 procedures (51 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). 17 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 19 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- 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: 47 of 135 published contracts carry a period end; 25 end within 18 months, 13 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (23 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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