Food Standards Scotland (FSS): Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Scotland·Aberdeen·Central purchasing body on 7 of 8 notices
Find a Tender organisation id7929Websitefoodstandards.gov.scot ↗
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
19 awarded tenders, 17 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 published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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
73 Research and development services4 procedures · 50%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 13%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet1 procedures · 13%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 procedures · 13%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental1 procedures · 13%98 Other community, social and personal services1 procedures · 13%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 · 8 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.
Contract100%(8 notices)
8 of 8 notices are Contract (100%).
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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.
Open75%(6 notices)
6 of 8 notices are Open (75%).Limited / restricted13%(1 notices)
1 of 8 notices are Limited / restricted (13%).Route not published13%(1 notices)
1 of 8 notices are Route not published (13%).
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 8 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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| Edinburgh Innovations Limited | 2 | 10.5% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Joanne Drew | 2 | 10.5% | 0 | 2 | — |
| Eaglen Veterinary Services Ltd | 2 | 10.5% | 0 | 2 | — |
| Private - Chris Williamson | 2 | 10.5% | 0 | 2 | — |
| John M Kelso MRCVS Locum | 2 | 10.5% | 0 | 2 | — |
| VSK Associates Ltd | 2 | 10.5% | 0 | 2 | — |
| conanvet ltd | 2 | 10.5% | 0 | 2 | — |
| MacLaren West Ltd | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 2 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 26% of 19 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 17 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 published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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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| Intention to Award a Contract for Hosting & Support of SND & SFSD | MacLaren West Ltd | — | — | £700,000 † |
| Dietary Surveys and Analysis | Edinburgh Innovations Limited | — | — | £600,000 † |
| Managed Workwear Provision and Laundry Services | Johnsons Workwear | — | — | £171,666 † |
| Scottish Authorities Food Enforcement Rebuild (SAFER) Food Business Social Research | I.F.F RESEARCH LIMITED | — | — | £111,745 † |
| FSS-2025-020 Online Guidance on Charcuterie Safety | Hutchison Scientific Ltd | — | — | £58,650 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 24 of 24 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Dietary Surveys and AnalysisSurvey analysis services | Awarded / complete | 14 Aug 2026 | £600,000 |
| Managed Workwear Provision and Laundry ServicesLaundry-operation services | Awarded / complete | 14 Apr 2026 | £225,000 |
| Cleaning and Minor Repairs ServicesAccommodation | Cancelled | 6 Jan 2026 | £100,000 |
| High-Risk Foods for ListeriaResearch services | Planned | 15 Oct 2025 | — |
| FSS-2025-020 Online Guidance on Charcuterie SafetyResearch services | Awarded / complete | 8 Oct 2025 | £60,000 |
| Scottish Authorities Food Enforcement Rebuild (SAFER) Food Business Social ResearchResearch services | Awarded / complete | 24 Sept 2025 | £120,000 |
| Food Standards Scotland: High-Risk Foods for ListeriaResearch services | Open | 3 Jul 2025 | — |
| Intention to Award a Contract for Hosting & Support of SND & SFSDAdded-value database services | Awarded / complete | 29 Apr 2025 | — |
| Remote Locum Meat Hygiene Inspection ServicesVeterinary services | Awarded / complete | 15 Dec 2023 | £45,000 |
| Remote Locum Official Veterinarian ServicesVeterinary services | Awarded / complete | 15 Dec 2023 | £40,000 |
| Remote Locum Official Veterinarian ServicesVeterinary services | Awarded / complete | 14 Dec 2023 | £80,000 |
| Remote Locum Official Veterinarian ServicesVeterinary services | Awarded / complete | 14 Dec 2023 | £150,000 |
| Remote Locum Official Veterinarian ServicesVeterinary services | Awarded / complete | 14 Dec 2023 | £200,000 |
| Remote Locum Official Veterinarian ServicesVeterinary services | Awarded / complete | 14 Dec 2023 | £240,000 |
| Locum Remote Official Veterinarian/Meat Health Inspection ServicesVeterinary services | Awarded / complete | 6 Dec 2023 | — |
| CLUE software licencesSoftware supply services | Awarded / complete | 23 Aug 2023 | — |
| Operational Workflow System (OWS) Hosting and MaintenanceCompliance software package | Awarded / complete | 4 Jul 2023 | — |
| Whole Genome Sequencing Services for E.coli GenomesLaboratory services | Awarded / complete | 9 Jan 2023 | — |
| Vulnerable Groups Research - Request for InformationDesign and execution of research and development | Planned | 30 Nov 2022 | — |
| Request for Information - Microbial Survey of Ready to Eat Foods Sold Over Social MediaDesign and execution of research and development | Planned | 23 Aug 2022 | — |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 3 of 21 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.