Heriot-Watt University: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Education·Scotland·Riccarton, Edinburgh·Central purchasing body on 12 of 21 notices
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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 8 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.
54 awarded tenders, 68 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.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supply, Delivery, Installation and Commissioning of an Advanced Fluorescence Microscope System with Widefield, Confocal and Super-Resolution Imaging Capabilities | 16 Nov 2026 | 25d | £600,000 |
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
38 Laboratory, optical and precision9 procedures · 43% · 1 open90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental4 procedures · 19%71 Architectural, construction, engineering3 procedures · 14%31 Electrical machinery2 procedures · 10%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 10%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances1 procedures · 5%42 Industrial machinery1 procedures · 5%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 5%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 · 21 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.
Contract90%(19 notices)
19 of 21 notices are Contract (90%).Framework10%(2 notices)
2 of 21 notices are Framework (10%).
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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.
Open71%(15 notices)
15 of 21 notices are Open (71%).Limited / restricted29%(6 notices)
6 of 21 notices are Limited / restricted (29%).
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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 8 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 21 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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| PHOTONIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 2 | 3.7% | 2 | 3 | — |
| Chandler Engineering | 2 | 3.7% | 1 | 4 | — |
| Greentech Sportsturf Ltd | 2 | 3.7% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Keysight Technologies UK Limited | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Guardian Electrical Compliance Ltd | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 1 | — |
| attocube systems AG | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Moorfield Nanotechnology Ltd | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 1 | — |
| WGM Consulting Engineers | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 1 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 11% of 54 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 68 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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| The Supply of Cleaning & Janitorial Products | Unico Ltd | — | — | £440,000 † |
| Window Cleaning Services | Brew Contract Cleaning Ltd | — | — | £400,000 † |
| Purchase of High Energy Ultrafast Laser System with Optical Parametric Amplifier | PHOTONIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED | — | — | £379,428 † |
| Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) and Fixed Appliance Testing (FAT) | Guardian Electrical Compliance Ltd | — | — | £378,330 † |
| Virtualisation Infrastructure Servers and Storage | Circle IT Solutions Ltd | — | — | £352,329 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 74 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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| Mechanical and Electrical Consultancy Design ServicesEngineering design services for mechanical and electrical installations for buildings | Awarded / complete | 9 Oct 2026 | £400,000 |
| Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) and Fixed Appliance Testing (FAT)Technical testing services | Awarded / complete | 30 Sept 2026 | £350,000 |
| Maintenance of Air Conditioning/Cooling Systems, Chilled Water Systems and Associated Plant ControlsHeat-exchange units | Open | 5 Aug 2026 | £160,000 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering Services Consultancy FrameworkCivil engineering consultancy services | Open | 23 Jul 2026 | £250,000 |
| Window Cleaning ServicesAccommodation | Awarded / complete | 10 Jul 2026 | £400,000 |
| Purchase of High-Repetition-Rate Ultrafast Laser SystemLaboratory | Open | 6 May 2026 | £220,000 |
| Purchase of Stimulated Raman Laser & Multi-Channel Lock-In AmplifierLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 29 Apr 2026 | — |
| Purchase of Closed-Cycle Helium Cryogenic SystemElectrical machinery | Awarded / complete | 29 Apr 2026 | £220,000 |
| Building Cleaning Services, Student Halls of ResidenceAccommodation | Open | 19 Mar 2026 | £375,000 |
| Oriam Grass Pitch Maintenance ServicesGrassing services | Awarded / complete | 12 Mar 2026 | £400,000 |
| Window Cleaning ServicesAccommodation | Cancelled | 3 Feb 2026 | £400,000 |
| Nightshift Cleaning Services - OriamAccommodation | Awarded / complete | 12 Jan 2026 | £327,000 |
| Laboratory & Workshop Equipment - Preventative Maintenance, Reactive Works and InspectionPreventive maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 28 Oct 2025 | £200,000 |
| Laser and Fibre Opto-Mechanical ComponentsLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 21 Oct 2025 | — |
| Virtualisation Infrastructure Servers and StorageData services | Awarded / complete | 13 Oct 2025 | — |
| Purchase of Dielectric Deposition SystemsElectrical machinery | Awarded / complete | 1 Jul 2025 | — |
| Purchase of High Energy Ultrafast Laser System with Optical Parametric AmplifierLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 7 Apr 2025 | — |
| Purchase of Pump Modules, Associated Parts & SoftwareLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 27 Mar 2025 | — |
| Cyber Security Operations Centre ServiceIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 26 Mar 2025 | — |
| Purchase of PNA-X Network AnalyzerLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 17 Feb 2025 | — |
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. 1 of 81 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.