Cheshire west and Chester Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Local-authority-districtLocal authorityNorth West EnglandEllesmere Port

Find a Tender organisation id53994Websitecheshirewestandchester.gov.uk ↗

Open now3next deadline 6 Mar 2028
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months3-85% vs prior 12 months (20)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Typical bids per lot316.7% single-bid · 6 bid reports
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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 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share11%of 54 awarded procedures · 73 suppliers
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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.

54 awarded tenders, 73 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£75mnet · on 11 of 16 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 91%
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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.

Open notices

3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Short Term hire of Vehicles - DPSDPS6 Mar 2028523d—
DPS - Mersey Forest, services, goods and works relating to Tree Planting and LandscapingDPS2 lots23 Feb 2029877d—
Passenger Transport DPS 2024 - 2034DPS3 lots31 Jan 20342680d£350,000,000

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 · 23 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 78% (18 notices)
  • Framework 17% (4 notices)
  • Dynamic purchasing system 4% (1 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.

  • Open 61% (14 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 22% (5 notices)
  • Selective 17% (4 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 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3robust · n=616.7% 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 23 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

216 of 23 notices amended

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
DePaul UK23.7%124 Apr 2025
Changing Lives Together23.7%129 May 2025
Econ Engineering Ltd23.7%029 Aug 2024
Al's Coaches23.7%0231 Jul 2023
HCRG Care Services Limited11.9%1219 May 2025
Cheshire and Wirral NHS Partnership Trust11.9%1230 Apr 2025
Polaris Childrens Services11.9%1214 May 2025
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust11.9%124 Apr 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 11% of 54 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 73 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

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.

£75mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 11 of 16 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 91%.
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.

£2.6m middle valuerobust · n=11Middle half £1.1m–£11m.
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
Sexual Health - PSRHCRG Care Services Limited——£19,849,134 †
Sexual Health - PSRHCRG Care Services Limited——£19,849,134 †
Starting Well 2025- 2027Cheshire and Wirral NHS Partnership Trust——£11,356,612 †
Starting Well 2025- 2027Cheshire and Wirral NHS Partnership Trust——£11,356,612 †
Supply, Installation and Maintenance Of Bus Shelters And Information PanelsBauer Media Outdoor Limited UK——£5,214,000 †

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 94 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Integrated Wellbeing - PSRHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete22 Dec 2025—
Associate Providers - Care at Home, Round 2Health and social work servicesOpen8 Dec 2025—
Care at Home ASSOCIATE providersFrameworkHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete1 Oct 2025—
Sexual Health - PSRHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete19 May 2025—
Emotional Health and Wellbeing - THORHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete14 May 2025—
Local Welfare Assistance 2025Furniture (incl. office furniture)Awarded / complete9 May 2025£750,000
Extra Care and Care at Home PRINCIPAL providers7 lotsHealth and social work servicesCancelled6 May 2025—
Starting Well 2025- 2027Health and social work servicesAwarded / complete30 Apr 2025—
Tree Works FrameworkFrameworkAgriculturalAwarded / complete29 Apr 2025—
Infection Prevention Control 2025Health and social work servicesAwarded / complete4 Apr 2025—
Care Leavers Group Supported Accommodation - ChildrenHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete4 Apr 2025—
FM PartnerAccommodationAwarded / complete26 Feb 2025—
Print Framework Re-tender Lot 2, 2025Framework2 lotsPrinted matter and related productsOpen21 Feb 2025—
Mowing Equipment Leasing4 lotsAgricultural machineryOpen14 Feb 2025—
Local Welfare Assistance 2025Furniture (incl. office furniture)Open12 Feb 2025—
Supply, Installation and Maintenance Of Bus Shelters And Information PanelsBus station servicesAwarded / complete14 Jan 2025—
Supply, Install, Maintain and Operate Electric Vehicle ChargepointsElectric vehiclesOpen12 Dec 2024—
Local Property Consultants FrameworkFrameworkReal estate servicesAwarded / complete4 Dec 2024—
Elections and Electoral Registration (Print Services)Postal and telecommunications servicesOpen26 Nov 2024—
Community Led Care and Carers (CLCC) 2025Health and social work servicesAwarded / complete22 Oct 2024—

Search all 94 procedures for this authority →

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 (£5.7m, 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 14 procedures (16 to a single canonical supplier, 2 multi-supplier). 11 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: 0 of 74 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (6 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-FTS-1203GB-FTS-128462GB-FTS-13238GB-FTS-47844GB-FTS-63491GB-FTS-95170

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-53994