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Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council: UK public procurement profile

Local authorityNorthern IrelandLisburn

Official UK PPONPHHT-5875-NTNM

Open now1next deadline 2 Oct 2026Notices, last 12 months53+33% vs prior 12 months (40)Typical bids per notice2.536.4% single-bid · 22 bid reportsTop-3 supplier share12%of 73 awarded procedures · 84 suppliersContracts ending ≤18 months72 within 6 monthsPublished award value, 24m£210mon 32 of 38 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 95%

Open notices

1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
T26/27-015 Collection, Transportation and Recovery of Waste wood from council recycling centres2 Oct 202616d£3,435,000

What they buy

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting20 procedures · 22%
90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental15 procedures · 16% · 1 open
45 Construction work13 procedures · 14%
50 Repair and maintenance services13 procedures · 14%
03 Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry9 procedures · 10% · 1 open
71 Architectural, construction, engineering7 procedures · 8%
44 Construction structures and materials6 procedures · 6%
98 Other community, social and personal services6 procedures · 6%

How they buy

Last 24 months · 93 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
  • Contract 81% (75 notices)
  • Dynamic purchasing system 10% (9 notices)
  • Framework 10% (9 notices)
Procedure route
  • Open 72% (67 notices)
  • Route not published 14% (13 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 9% (8 notices)
  • Direct award 4% (4 notices)
  • Selective 1% (1 notices)
Typical bids per notice2.5robust · n=22Median of published bid reports · 36.4% of reports show a single bidder. Includes framework and DPS notices.
Deadline → award43 daysrobust · n=18Median days from submission deadline to first award notice.
Notice amendments0Median amendments per notice · 45 of 93 notices amended.
Award vs estimate0% at estimaterobust · n=7Median (estimate − award) / estimate on single-lot, single-supplier GBP pairs; 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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Cobra Specialist Security Services34.1%3420 Jul 2026
THE MOUNT CHARLES GROUP LIMITED34.1%2421 Nov 2025
Whiteisland Nursery34.1%1327 Jan 2025
Stepping Stones34.1%1310 Oct 2024
Skipway Waste Management and Recycling34.1%0326 Sept 2022
H&J Martin Ltdframework/DPS on 122.7%226 May 2026
Irish Waste Services22.7%1313 Nov 2024
R Heatrick Ltd22.7%1227 Oct 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 12% of 73 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 84 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)£210mSum of published values on 32 of 38 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 95%. 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)£350k medianrobust · n=32Middle half £119k–£809k.
Largest published awardsSupplierAwardedPublished value
TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF LOCK, UNLOCK, KEY HOLDING AND ALARM RESPONSE SERVICESCobra Specialist Security Services—£104,012,100 †
Provision of Stewarding and Crowd Control for Lisburn and Castlereagh City CouncilEventsec Ltd16 Jan 2026£59,847,600
Carryduff Waste Recycling Centre Integrated Consultancy Team Services for Lisburn and Castlereagh City CouncilWDR & RT Taggart15 Aug 2025£24,575,200
TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF LOCK, UNLOCK, KEY HOLDING AND ALARM RESPONSE SERVICES T21/22-037Cobra Specialist Security Services—£11,363,316 †
TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF LOCK, UNLOCK, KEY HOLDING AND ALARM RESPONSE SERVICES T21/22-037Cobra Specialist Security Services—£1,136,316 †

Contracts ending

Published end dates only · 13 of 91 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
Framework for the Provision of Electrical Services, Reactive and Project Works to Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council FacilitiesB.I. ELECTRICAL SERVICES (NI) LTD trading as Greenview, GR WHITE & SON LTD, H & J MARTIN CONSTRUCTION LIMITED +221 Jan 2027£648,000
Provision of Stewarding and Crowd Control for Lisburn and Castlereagh City CouncilEventsec Ltd15 Mar 2027£59,847,600
PPM and RM 10 Legionella Management for Lisburn and Castlereagh City CouncilGraham Asset Management Ltd31 Mar 2027£679,672
Provision of an Integrated Marketing Campaign for Lisburn and Castlereagh City CouncilANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTD14 Oct 2027£1,020,000
LOT 1 Finished Summer BeddingPENTLAND PLANTS LIMITED30 Nov 2027£200,000
LOT 2 Finished Winter BeddingPENTLAND PLANTS LIMITED30 Nov 2027£125,000
Cleaning Services at Designated Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council PremisesTHE MOUNT CHARLES GROUP LIMITED31 Dec 2027£3,655,825,200

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 178 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Q25/26-049 THE PROVISION OF CARETAKER/RECEPTION SERVICES AT THE BRADFORD COURT OFFICECaretaker servicesOpen24 Oct 2025£28,000
Provision of Counselling Services for Lisburn and Castlereagh City CouncilHealth and social work servicesOpen14 Oct 2025£40,000
T2526-058 Supply and Delivery of Wooden Huts and Associated Costs (Storage, Maintenance, Build-Up/Take Down)Furniture (incl. office furniture)Open10 Oct 2025£58,050
T2526-050 TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT FOR THE HALF MARATHONTraffic control servicesOpen8 Oct 2025£61,756
EU / Netherlands Trade Programme (2025–2026)Business and management consultancy servicesOpen6 Oct 2025£89,000
Review of Sites of Local Nature Conservation Importance within the Council AreaDesign consultancy servicesOpen3 Oct 2025£30,000
A Critical Friend to Assist in the Review of Landscape Designations for the Local Development PlanDesign consultancy servicesOpen3 Oct 2025£30,000
Electric Vehicle Charging Business PartnerConstruction work for pipelinesOpen1 Oct 2025£10,000
Framework for the Hire, Delivery, Collection and Servicing of Chemical Toilets (Retender)FrameworkChemical toiletsOpen30 Sept 2025£108,000

Search all 178 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 (£344m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 42 award records on 30 procedures (38 to a single canonical supplier, 2 multi-supplier, 2 with no supplier published). Typical award uses single-supplier 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; 16 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
  • Bid counts, 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: 13 of 91 published contracts carry a period end; 7 end within 18 months, 2 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (9 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-FTS-161930GB-FTS-162147GB-FTS-18335GB-FTS-24333GB-FTS-35157GB-FTS-37405GB-FTS-37520GB-FTS-563GB-FTS-66460

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PHHT-5875-NTNM