Folkestone and Hythe District Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Local-authority-districtSocial housing register: Local authorityLocal authoritySouth East EnglandFolkestone

Find a Tender organisation id4604Websitefolkestone-hythe.gov.uk ↗

Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months0-100% vs prior 12 months (4)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Top-3 supplier share20%of 15 awarded procedures · 15 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.

15 awarded tenders, 15 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£66mnet · on 3 of 3 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
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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.

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 · 4 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 100% (4 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 50% (2 notices)
  • Selective 25% (1 notices)
  • Route not published 25% (1 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 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

6indicative · n=20% 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 4 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

4.54 of 4 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 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimateindicative · n=2

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
Bauer Media Outdoor Limited UK16.7%1113 Jan 2025
Gas Advisory Services Ltd T/A Phoenix Compliancy Management16.7%113 Dec 2024
Mears Limited16.7%117 Apr 2025
Town and Country Cleaners Ltd16.7%0112 Oct 2023
TRIPLE S LIFT SERVICES LIMITED16.7%0130 Jan 2024
DDS (International) Limited16.7%0111 Sept 2024
RAPLEYS LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP16.7%0129 Apr 2021
GREEN GNOMES LTD16.7%017 Nov 2023

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 20% of 15 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 15 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.

£66mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 3 of 3 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%.
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.

£5.5m middle valuemoderate · n=3Middle half £3.0m–£33m.
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
Responsive Repairs, Void Refurbishment, and Planned Works 2025-35Mears Limited——£60,000,000 †
Supply and Maintenance of Passenger Shelters 2024-34Bauer Media Outdoor Limited UK——£5,500,000 †
The Provision of Technical Consultancy ServicesGas Advisory Services Ltd T/A Phoenix Compliancy Management——£440,000 †

Recent procedures

Latest 23 of 23 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Responsive Repairs, Void Refurbishment, and Planned Works 2025-35Building installation workAwarded / complete7 Apr 2025£60,000,000
Supply and Maintenance of Passenger Shelters 2024-34Advertising servicesAwarded / complete13 Jan 2025£5,500,000
The Provision of Technical Consultancy ServicesTechnical testingAwarded / complete3 Dec 2024—
Sewage Sludge Tankering and Cesspit Emptying ServicesSewage servicesOpen16 Oct 2024—
Cleaning Services for Social Housing 2024-27AccommodationAwarded / complete18 Sept 2024—
Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs) and Associated Works 2024-27ArchitecturalAwarded / complete11 Sept 2024—
Supply and Maintenance of Passenger Shelters 2024-34Advertising servicesPlanned12 Jun 2024—
Parking Enforcement Services 2024-28Parking enforcement servicesAwarded / complete30 May 2024—
Electrical Installation Condition Reports (EICR) for Social Housing 2024-27Electrical wiring and fitting workAwarded / complete30 Jan 2024—
Servicing and Maintenance of Passenger Lifts in Social Housing 2023-25Lift-maintenance servicesAwarded / complete30 Jan 2024—
PAS2035 Retrofit Complete Bureau ServiceEnergy and related servicesAwarded / complete7 Nov 2023—
Cleaning Services for Social Housing 2023-26AccommodationOpen27 Oct 2022£1,608,000
Further Competition under Insurance Placement DPS 978 for Folkestone & Hythe District Council and their appointed Insurance Broker - AonDPSFinancial and insurance servicesAwarded / complete25 Jul 2022—
THE DEVELOPMENT OF OTTERPOOL PARK GARDEN TOWN – LEGAL ADVICE AND SERVICESLegal servicesOpen24 Jun 2022£2,100,000
Provision of Grounds Maintenance Agency StaffSupply services of personnel including temporary staffAwarded / complete6 Jan 2022—
Provision of Microsoft M365 Enterprise and Skype for Business licencesInformation technology servicesAwarded / complete22 Oct 2021—
Princes Parade Leisure Centre Management ContractSports facilities operation servicesOpen23 Aug 2021—
Princes Parade Leisure Centres Management ContractSports facilities operation servicesPlanned14 May 2021£24,000,000
SUPPLY OF PROFESSION SERVICES -HIGHVIEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTConstruction-related servicesAwarded / complete5 May 2021—
Housing (HRA) Stock Condition Survey Consultancy ServicesBuilding servicesAwarded / complete29 Apr 2021—

Search all 23 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 (£93m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 3 award records on 3 procedures (3 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 3 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 15 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 (4 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-FTS-134815GB-FTS-52270GB-FTS-8161GB-FTS-95020

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-4604