Cheshire west and Chester Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·North West England·Ellesmere Port
Find a Tender organisation id53994Websitecheshirewestandchester.gov.uk ↗
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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 6 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.
54 awarded tenders, 73 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short Term hire of Vehicles - DPS | 6 Mar 2028 | 523d | — |
| DPS - Mersey Forest, services, goods and works relating to Tree Planting and Landscaping | 23 Feb 2029 | 877d | — |
| Passenger Transport DPS 2024 - 2034 | 31 Jan 2034 | 2680d | £350,000,000 |
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 services11 procedures · 48%98 Other community, social and personal services7 procedures · 30%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting3 procedures · 13% · 1 open34 Transport equipment and products3 procedures · 13%03 Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry2 procedures · 9% · 1 open90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental2 procedures · 9% · 1 open22 Printed matter and related products2 procedures · 9%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances2 procedures · 9%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 · 23 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 78% (18 notices)
- Framework 17% (4 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 4% (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 61% (14 notices)
- Limited / restricted 22% (5 notices)
- Selective 17% (4 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 6 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 23 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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| DePaul UK | 2 | 3.7% | 1 | 2 | 4 Apr 2025 |
| Changing Lives Together | 2 | 3.7% | 1 | 2 | 9 May 2025 |
| Econ Engineering Ltd | 2 | 3.7% | 0 | 2 | 9 Aug 2024 |
| Al's Coaches | 2 | 3.7% | 0 | 2 | 31 Jul 2023 |
| HCRG Care Services Limited | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 2 | 19 May 2025 |
| Cheshire and Wirral NHS Partnership Trust | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 2 | 30 Apr 2025 |
| Polaris Childrens Services | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 2 | 14 May 2025 |
| Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 2 | 4 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.
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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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| Sexual Health - PSR | HCRG Care Services Limited | — | — | £19,849,134 † |
| Sexual Health - PSR | HCRG Care Services Limited | — | — | £19,849,134 † |
| Starting Well 2025- 2027 | Cheshire and Wirral NHS Partnership Trust | — | — | £11,356,612 † |
| Starting Well 2025- 2027 | Cheshire and Wirral NHS Partnership Trust | — | — | £11,356,612 † |
| Supply, Installation and Maintenance Of Bus Shelters And Information Panels | Bauer Media Outdoor Limited UK | — | — | £5,214,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 94 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Woodlands School Nursery ProvisionEducation and training services | Open | 23 May 2023 | — |
| Local Bus 40004 - Barnton, Northwich, LeftwichTransport services (excl. Waste transport) | Awarded / complete | 17 Apr 2023 | — |
| Toilet cleansing in parks and public spacesSewage | Awarded / complete | 12 Apr 2023 | — |
| Demand Responsive Transport - Re tenderTransport services (excl. Waste transport) | Open | 27 Mar 2023 | — |
| Waste ConsultancyBusiness services: law | Awarded / complete | 23 Mar 2023 | — |
| Solar Powered Compacting Litter Bins throughout Chester, City CentreWaste and rubbish containers and bins | Open | 9 Feb 2023 | — |
| Floating Support and Supported LodgingsHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 27 Jan 2023 | — |
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.
Canonical page id: GB-FTS-53994