Historic Environment Scotland: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Scotland·Edinburgh·Central purchasing body on 14 of 43 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 31 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.
97 awarded tenders, 100 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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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
3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Graphic Design of Guidebooks | 23 Oct 2026 | 1d | — |
| Minor Archaeological Services Call-Off Contract | 27 Oct 2026 | 5d | £480,000 |
| Membership Day to Day Mailing Services | 11 Nov 2026 | 20d | — |
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
77 Agricultural, forestry, horticultural services8 procedures · 19%71 Architectural, construction, engineering7 procedures · 16% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services4 procedures · 9%80 Education and training services4 procedures · 9%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting4 procedures · 9%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet3 procedures · 7%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 5% · 2 open45 Construction work2 procedures · 5% · 1 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 · 43 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.
Contract93%(40 notices)
40 of 43 notices are Contract (93%).Framework7%(3 notices)
3 of 43 notices are Framework (7%).
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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.
Open72%(31 notices)
31 of 43 notices are Open (72%).Limited / restricted21%(9 notices)
9 of 43 notices are Limited / restricted (21%).Route not published5%(2 notices)
2 of 43 notices are Route not published (5%).Selective2%(1 notices)
1 of 43 notices are Selective (2%).
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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 31 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 45 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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| Nurture Landscapes Ltd | 5 | 5.2% | 4 | 5 | — |
| AOC Archaeology | 4 | 4.1% | 1 | 4 | — |
| Leica Geosystems | 3 | 3.1% | 1 | 7 | — |
| City Access Scaffolding Ltd | 3 | 3.1% | 1 | 6 | — |
| Hartech Automation Limited | 2 | 2.1% | 2 | 4 | — |
| GeoToolBox Iberica S.L. | 2 | 2.1% | 1 | 4 | — |
| Select Drams Ltd | 2 | 2.1% | 1 | 3 | — |
| Own Label Company Scotland Ltd | 2 | 2.1% | 1 | 2 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 12% of 97 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 100 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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| Retail System | REPLY LIMITED | — | — | £1,507,530 † |
| Historic Environment Scotland branded Whisky | Own Label Company Scotland Ltd | — | — | £1,250,000 † |
| Liqueur | Hemisphere Brands Ltd. | — | — | £1,250,000 † |
| Ticketing System | Ventrata | — | — | £1,248,280 † |
| Provision of Scanning Equipment Maintenance | Leica Geosystems | — | — | £445,000 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
Published end dates only · 4 of 152 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Towards A National Collection – Digitisation Capability Pilot for N-RICH Prototype | Oxford University Innovation Limited | 27 Nov 2026 | £265,275 |
| Grounds Maintenance Edinburgh & East Lothian | Nurture Landscapes Ltd | 31 Mar 2028 | £25,569 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 124 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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| Provision of Scanning Equipment Maintenance ServicesRepair and maintenance services of precision equipment | Awarded / complete | 20 Oct 2026 | — |
| Environmental Impact of Harvesting MarramResearch services | Awarded / complete | 30 Sept 2026 | — |
| Support and Maintenance of AV EquipmentRepair | Awarded / complete | 16 Sept 2026 | — |
| Supply and Support of Automated Film ScannersLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 9 Sept 2026 | — |
| Provision of Scanning Equipment MaintenanceRepair and maintenance services of precision equipment | Awarded / complete | 9 Sept 2026 | — |
| Heritage Training Course Instructional DesignE-learning services | Awarded / complete | 25 Aug 2026 | £190,000 |
| Fire Engineering Consultant ServicesFire-prevention services | Open | 12 Aug 2026 | £520,000 |
| Painting Services for Edinburgh and Stirling RegionsPreservation services of historical buildings | Open | 29 Jul 2026 | — |
| Underwater ArchaeologyArchaeological services | Awarded / complete | 27 Jul 2026 | — |
| Ecology SurveysEnvironmental services | Open | 20 Jul 2026 | — |
| Scaffolding Services in North RegionPreservation services of historical buildings | Awarded / complete | 25 Jun 2026 | — |
| Trinity House Community Learning ProgrammeEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 23 Jun 2026 | — |
| Provision of Maeshowe Shuttle Bus ServiceHire of buses and coaches with driver | Awarded / complete | 22 Jun 2026 | £300,000 |
| Grounds Maintenance StirlingGrounds maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 17 Jun 2026 | — |
| Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian AnalysisArchaeological services | Open | 8 Jun 2026 | — |
| Waste Management Broker ServicesRefuse and waste related services | Planned | 1 Jun 2026 | — |
| Towards A National Collection – Digitisation Capability Pilot for N-RICH PrototypeResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 29 May 2026 | £225,000 |
| Commercial Ticketing and Retail SystemsInformation technology services | Awarded / complete | 21 May 2026 | £3,500,000 |
| Delivery of Castle Science Learning Outreach ProgrammeEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 7 May 2026 | — |
| Grounds Maintenance West of ScotlandGrounds maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 7 May 2026 | — |
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. 4 of 152 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.