Falkirk Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Larbert·Central purchasing body on 23 of 40 notices
Find a Tender organisation id97675Websitefalkirk.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 7 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.
90 awarded tenders, 360 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.
Open notices
5 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supply, Delivery, Installation, Removal and Re-siting of Bus Shelters | 16 Oct 2026 | 16d | £1,250,000 |
| Framework Agreement for Provision of Cleaning Services for Properties, Communal Areas and Kitchens | 29 Oct 2026 | 29d | £3,840,000 |
| Scaffolding Hire and Inspections | 30 Oct 2026 | 30d | £4,220,000 |
| Scaffolding Hire and Inspections | 30 Oct 2026 | 30d | £4,220,000 |
| Dynamic Procurement System for Local Bus and Education Bus Services 2022- 2032 | 1 Jun 2032 | 2071d | £80,000,000 |
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
45 Construction work14 procedures · 35% · 3 open44 Construction structures and materials8 procedures · 20% · 1 open85 Health and social work services7 procedures · 18%34 Transport equipment and products6 procedures · 15% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services6 procedures · 15% · 1 open60 Transport services (except waste transport)5 procedures · 13% · 1 open90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental5 procedures · 13% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering4 procedures · 10% · 2 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 · 40 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.
- Framework 63% (25 notices)
- Contract 33% (13 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 5% (2 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 83% (33 notices)
- Route not published 13% (5 notices)
- Selective 5% (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 7 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 40 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 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| Express Taxis | 5 | 5.6% | 2 | 67 | 11 Nov 2024 |
| Aberlour Child Care Trust | 5 | 5.6% | 1 | 6 | 2 Jul 2025 |
| BELL GROUP LTD | 5 | 5.6% | 1 | 5 | 9 Oct 2025 |
| Bruce Taxis Ltd | 4 | 4.4% | 2 | 174 | 11 Nov 2024 |
| BAIRD TAXIS LTD | 4 | 4.4% | 2 | 16 | 11 Nov 2024 |
| RL taxis | 4 | 4.4% | 2 | 7 | 11 Nov 2024 |
| Markon Limited | 4 | 4.4% | 2 | 6 | 15 Dec 2025 |
| Sureserve Compliance North Limited | 4 | 4.4% | 2 | 4 | 8 Apr 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 17% of 90 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 360 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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| Term Maintenance Contract for Electrical Repairs (Lot 1 - East) | BMES (Scotland) Ltd | — | — | £554,699 † |
| Term Maintenance Contract for Electrical Repairs (Lot 2 - West) | Valley Group Limited | — | — | £540,605 † |
| Term Maintenance Contract for Servicing of Sprinkler, Dry Riser and Kitchen Fire Suppression Systems | Churches Fire Safety Ltd | — | — | £283,022 † |
| Term Maintenance Contract for PAT Testing of Electrical Appliances | OCS M&E Services Ltd | — | — | £233,356 † |
| Provision of Accommodation Based - Housing Support for Care Experienced Young People in the Falkirk Council area. | Blue Triangle | — | — | £113,000 † |
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 · 32 of 533 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Lot 2 Door and Window Mechanisms | Sealco [ Scotland ] Ltd | 30 Jun 2027 | £428,000 |
| Lot 4 Supply and Installation of Slip Resistant Flooring, inc Site Survey | General & Technical Flooring Servi, LAWRIE (FURNISHINGS) LIMITED, Roll On Flooring Ltd | 30 Sept 2027 | £368,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 128 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 (£255m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 207 award records on 27 procedures (170 to a single canonical supplier, 37 multi-supplier). 5 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: 32 of 533 published contracts carry a period end; 2 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (21 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-97675