Dundee City Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Dundee·Central purchasing body on 6 of 64 notices
Find a Tender organisation id122330Websitedundeecity.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 24 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.
62 awarded tenders, 167 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 |
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| ITT for Survey and Treament for Timber Preservation Framework | 5 Oct 2026 | 5d | £5,200,000 |
| Provision of External Audit Services | 7 Oct 2026 | 7d | £125,000 |
| Service and Maintenance of Medical Baths & Lifting Equipment | 9 Oct 2026 | 9d | — |
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
50 Repair and maintenance services19 procedures · 30% · 2 open45 Construction work10 procedures · 16% · 1 open48 Software package and information systems10 procedures · 16%71 Architectural, construction, engineering6 procedures · 9% · 1 open44 Construction structures and materials5 procedures · 8%60 Transport services (except waste transport)5 procedures · 8%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet5 procedures · 8%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting4 procedures · 6% · 1 openHow 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 · 64 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 84% (54 notices)
- Framework 16% (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 69% (44 notices)
- Limited / restricted 19% (12 notices)
- Route not published 9% (6 notices)
- Selective 3% (2 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 24 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 64 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 13 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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| Scan Building Services Ltd | 4 | 6.5% | 4 | 33 | 27 Jul 2026 |
| Lovat's Group Ltd | 2 | 3.2% | 2 | 7 | 24 Jun 2025 |
| Softcat Plc | 2 | 3.2% | 2 | 2 | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Xplore Dundee | 2 | 3.2% | 2 | 2 | 28 Apr 2026 |
| Form Access Ltd | 2 | 3.2% | 1 | 3 | 13 Jun 2025 |
| IAS Dundee Ltd | 2 | 3.2% | 1 | 3 | 13 Jun 2025 |
| Penumbra | 2 | 3.2% | 0 | 3 | 21 Sept 2021 |
| Dundee and Angus College | 2 | 3.2% | 0 | 2 | 29 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.
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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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| Operation & Expansion of Hubs & Depot Charging | Swarco Smart Charging Limited | — | — | £45,198,678 † |
| Tender for Devlopment of Flats at Blackness Road, Dundee | Clark Contracts Ltd | — | — | £5,967,919 † |
| Replacement of Under Bridge Inspection Gantries, Tay Road Bridge, Dundee | Spencer | — | — | £5,140,171 † |
| Provision of Occupational Health Services | People Asset Management Ltd | — | — | £1,950,000 † |
| Water Hygiene Monitoring Lot 1 | SPIE Limited | — | — | £940,307 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 118 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| TENDER FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OMNICHANNEL SERVICESInformation technology services | Awarded / complete | 9 Jul 2025 | £147,000 |
| Tender for the Upgrade and Maintenance of Parking Meters in Dundee CityInstallation services of parking meter equipment | Awarded / complete | 9 Jul 2025 | — |
| ITT for School to College Bus TransportTransport services (excl. Waste transport) | Open | 27 Jun 2025 | — |
| Subscription based Research Services - Supply of Strategic Management ServicesIT software package | Awarded / complete | 25 Jun 2025 | — |
| Tender for the Inspection Testing & Maintenance of Air Handling & Air Conditioning SystemsRepair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations | Awarded / complete | 24 Jun 2025 | £770,000 |
| Tender for the Provision of a Framework for the Supply, Delivery & Installation of ScaffoldingScaffolding work | Awarded / complete | 13 Jun 2025 | — |
| Mechanical Services FrameworkHeating equipment | Awarded / complete | 9 Jun 2025 | £11,000,000 |
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.
Canonical page id: GB-FTS-122330