Dundee City Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Local-authority-districtLocal authorityScotlandDundeeCentral purchasing body on 6 of 64 notices

Find a Tender organisation id122330Websitedundeecity.gov.uk ↗

Open now3next deadline 5 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months41+78% vs prior 12 months (23)
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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 lot329.2% single-bid · 24 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 24 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share11%of 62 awarded procedures · 167 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.

62 awarded tenders, 167 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£67mnet · on 38 of 51 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 88%
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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
ITT for Survey and Treament for Timber Preservation FrameworkFramework3 lots5 Oct 20265d£5,200,000
Provision of External Audit Services7 Oct 20267d£125,000
Service and Maintenance of Medical Baths & Lifting Equipmentcentral purchasing body9 Oct 20269d—

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 · 64 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 84% (54 notices)
  • Framework 16% (10 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 69% (44 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 19% (12 notices)
  • Route not published 9% (6 notices)
  • Selective 3% (2 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 24 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3robust · n=2429.2% 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 64 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

2.537 of 64 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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 13 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

3% below estimaterobust · n=13

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
Scan Building Services Ltdframework/DPS on 146.5%43327 Jul 2026
Lovat's Group Ltdframework/DPS on 123.2%2724 Jun 2025
Softcat Plc23.2%2225 Sept 2026
Xplore Dundee23.2%2228 Apr 2026
Form Access Ltdframework/DPS on 223.2%1313 Jun 2025
IAS Dundee Ltdframework/DPS on 223.2%1313 Jun 2025
Penumbraframework/DPS on 123.2%0321 Sept 2021
Dundee and Angus College23.2%0229 Jun 2023

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 11% of 62 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 167 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.

£67mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 38 of 51 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 88%.
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.

£252k middle valuerobust · n=38Middle half £110k–£404k.
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
Operation & Expansion of Hubs & Depot ChargingSwarco Smart Charging Limited——£45,198,678 †
Tender for Devlopment of Flats at Blackness Road, DundeeClark Contracts Ltd——£5,967,919 †
Replacement of Under Bridge Inspection Gantries, Tay Road Bridge, DundeeSpencer——£5,140,171 †
Provision of Occupational Health ServicesPeople Asset Management Ltd——£1,950,000 †
Water Hygiene Monitoring Lot 1SPIE Limited——£940,307 †

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 118 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
TENDER FOR DOMESTIC REMOVALS, STORAGE AND DISPOSAL FRAMEWORKFrameworkOther servicesOpen15 May 2026£2,000,000
Tender for the Supply of Local Bus ServicesRoad transport servicesAwarded / complete28 Apr 2026£134,000
Tender for the supply of School Bus ServicesRoad transport servicesAwarded / complete24 Apr 2026£147,000
Supply & Delivery of Roof Windows at Dryburgh Farmhouse DevelopmentWindowsOpen9 Mar 2026—
Service and Maintenance of Roller Shutter Doorscentral purchasing bodyRepair and maintenance services of building installationsAwarded / complete27 Feb 2026—
ON STREET EV CHARGING INFRASTRUCTUREChargersPlanned19 Feb 2026—
PRE-PROCUREMENT SUPPLIER ENGAGEMENT - ON STREET ADVERTISING CONCESSIONAdvertising and marketing servicesPlanned17 Feb 2026—
Provision of Electronic Payment ServicesFinancial consultancyAwarded / complete23 Jan 2026—
TENDER FOR HEADSTONE SAFETY STABILISATIONCemetery maintenance servicesOpen13 Jan 2026£250,000
Flexible Framework Agreement for Education & Social Support Services (Children & Families)Framework10 lotsCounselling servicesOpen13 Jan 2026£4,000,000
Tender for Christmas Lights Decoration in Dundee City CentreEvent servicesAwarded / complete8 Jan 2026£400,000
Service and Maintenance of CCTV Public SpacesClosed-circuit television camerasAwarded / complete10 Dec 2025£900,000
Legal Advisory Services for the Development of District Heating NetworkLegal advisory and information servicesAwarded / complete5 Dec 2025£300,000
Provision of Payment Acceptance ServicesInternational payment transfer servicesAwarded / complete26 Nov 2025—
Tender for the Inspection, Testing, Service & Maintenance of Fire Detection & Alarm, EVC & PAVA SystemsRepair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installationsAwarded / complete6 Nov 2025£590,000
Soft Market Testing for an Asset Management Solutioncentral purchasing bodyAdministration software packagePlanned24 Oct 2025£300,000
Opportunistic Private Markets Asset Allocation - Investment Management ServicesPension fund management servicesOpen17 Oct 2025£12,000,000
Tender for EV Charging Hubs / Infrastructure Management2 lotsChargersAwarded / complete1 Oct 2025£53,000,000
Water Hygiene Monitoring Programme Lot 1 & 22 lotsHealth and safety servicesCancelled11 Sept 2025—
Tender for Devlopment of Flats at Blackness Road, DundeeBuilding construction workAwarded / complete9 Jul 2025—

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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 (£75m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 72 award records on 38 procedures (51 to a single canonical supplier, 21 multi-supplier). 38 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: 1 of 115 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 (5 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-FTS-1025GB-FTS-105251GB-FTS-20852GB-FTS-33537GB-FTS-60247

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-122330