Glass Futures: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Other public body·North West England·St Helens
Official UK PPONPYHR-8347-NYPX
Open now0no live noticesNotices, last 12 months4+100% vs prior 12 months (2)Top-3 supplier share21%of 19 awarded procedures · 18 suppliersPublished award value, 24m£1.5mnet · on 5 of 6 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
What they buy
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
09 Petroleum, coal, oil and gas1 procedures · 17%14 Mining, basic metals and related products1 procedures · 17%73 Research and development services1 procedures · 17%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 procedures · 17%How they buy
Last 24 months · 6 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
- Contract 100% (6 notices)
Procedure route
- Open 50% (3 notices)
- Limited / restricted 33% (2 notices)
- Direct award 17% (1 notices)
Typical bids per notice1.5indicative · n=2Median of published bid counts per lot on contested notices · 50% of lots drew a single bid. Direct awards are left out; framework and DPS lots are included.
Notice amendments1.5Median amendments per notice · 3 of 6 notices amended.
Award vs estimate0% at estimateindicative · n=1Median (estimate − award) / estimate on single-supplier GBP pairs per lot, same VAT basis on both sides; vehicles excluded. Negative = awarded above estimate.
Who wins here
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucideon Limited | 2 | 10.5% | 0 | 4 | 6 Jun 2024 |
| Argent Energy | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 2 | 4 Oct 2024 |
| Newport Industries Ltd | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 1 | 26 Nov 2024 |
| CTM Europe Limited | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 1 | 20 Jan 2026 |
| PC Specialist Limited | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 1 | 2 Mar 2026 |
| University of Liverpool | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 1 | 17 Nov 2025 |
| SIEMENS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 1 | 5.3% | 0 | 2 | 11 Oct 2022 |
| Air Products PLC | 1 | 5.3% | 0 | 1 | 12 Jun 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 21% of 19 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 18 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
Published award value (24m)£1.5mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 5 of 6 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%; a further 1 published a VAT-inclusive amount only (£87k inc. VAT, kept apart). Not spend and not a budget: notices sometimes republish a framework total or a mis-scaled figure — the largest rows are listed below so you can check.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)£300k medianrobust · n=5Middle half £285k–£323k.
| Largest published awards | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biofuel Oil | Argent Energy | — | — | £450,000 † |
| The Supply and Delivery of a Multiphysics Model and Furnace Digital Twin | University of Liverpool | 17 Nov 2025 | 4 mo | £323,000 |
| Alternative Fuel | Argent Energy | — | — | £300,000 † |
| Supply of Soda Ash for the Glass Futures Pilot Facility | Newport Industries Ltd | — | — | £285,000 † |
| Supply and Install of Hydrogen Pipework | CTM Europe Limited | — | 4 mo | £120,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 27 of 27 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design, Supply, Installation & Commissioning of a Liquid Oxygen Fuel SystemEngineering design services | Open | 1 Mar 2023 | — |
| Ceramic Delivery Partner for EconoMISER ProjectCeramics | Awarded / complete | 7 Feb 2023 | — |
| Design, Supply & Installation of a Flue Glass Cleaning Abatement SystemEmission measurement equipment | Open | 6 Feb 2023 | £1,200,000 |
| Design, Supply, Installation and Commissioning of a Hot Cullet Water Treatment SystemComputer control system | Open | 9 Jan 2023 | £800,000 |
| Provision of a Process Control SystemComputer control system | Awarded / complete | 11 Oct 2022 | — |
| Design, Supply, Installation and Commissioning of a Hot Cullet Water Treatment SystemComputer control system | Open | 4 Oct 2022 | £1,100,000 |
| Design, Supply, Installation and Commissioning of an Internal Cullet Handling SystemAccess platforms | Open | 7 Sept 2022 | £1,000,000 |
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 (£4.6m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 6 award records on 5 procedures (6 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). Typical award uses single-supplier VAT-exclusive GBP values below £5bn, excludes framework/DPS ceilings and — as a heuristic for republished framework totals — any amount repeated three or more times inside this authority’s 24-month awards; 4 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 1 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- Bid counts (per lot, contested notices only, PA 2023 final-stage tenders where published), deadline-to-award and amendments come from the nightly buyer analytics row (v8, award-identity grain). Evidence tiers: robust ≥5, moderate 3–4, indicative 1–2.
- Contract end dates: 3 of 23 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”.
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Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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