Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Northern Ireland·Lisburn
Official UK PPONPHHT-5875-NTNM
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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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 30 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.
73 awarded tenders, 80 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.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| T26/27-015 Collection, Transportation and Recovery of Waste wood from council recycling centres | 2 Oct 2026 | 3d | £3,435,000 |
| T26/27-013 DIIB Catering and Bar Operator | 9 Oct 2026 | 9d | £300,000 |
| T26/27-032 Occupational Health Services | 13 Oct 2026 | 13d | £297,787 |
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting20 procedures · 22%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental15 procedures · 16% · 1 open45 Construction work13 procedures · 14%50 Repair and maintenance services13 procedures · 14%03 Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry9 procedures · 10% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering7 procedures · 8%44 Construction structures and materials6 procedures · 6%98 Other community, social and personal services6 procedures · 6%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 · 93 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.
- Contract 81% (75 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 10% (9 notices)
- Framework 10% (9 notices)
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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.
- Open 74% (69 notices)
- Route not published 12% (11 notices)
- Limited / restricted 9% (8 notices)
- Direct award 4% (4 notices)
- Selective 1% (1 notices)
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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 30 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 19 decided tenders across all categories, 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 93 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 13 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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| Cobra Specialist Security Services | 3 | 4.1% | 3 | 4 | 20 Jul 2026 |
| THE MOUNT CHARLES GROUP LTD | 3 | 4.1% | 2 | 4 | 21 Nov 2025 |
| Irish Waste Services | 3 | 4.1% | 1 | 4 | 13 Nov 2024 |
| Whiteisland Nursery | 3 | 4.1% | 1 | 3 | 27 Jan 2025 |
| Stepping Stones | 3 | 4.1% | 1 | 3 | 10 Oct 2024 |
| Skipway Waste Management and Recycling | 3 | 4.1% | 0 | 3 | 26 Sept 2022 |
| H & J Martin Ltd | 2 | 2.7% | 2 | 2 | 6 May 2026 |
| COMMUNITY ADVICE LISBURN & CASTLEREAGH | 2 | 2.7% | 1 | 2 | 22 Apr 2026 |
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); 80 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 award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
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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| TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF LOCK, UNLOCK, KEY HOLDING AND ALARM RESPONSE SERVICES | Cobra Specialist Security Services | — | — | £104,012,100 † |
| Carryduff Waste Recycling Centre Integrated Consultancy Team Services for Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council | WDR & RT Taggart | 15 Aug 2025 | 2 yrs | £24,575,200 ≈ £12m/yr |
| TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF LOCK, UNLOCK, KEY HOLDING AND ALARM RESPONSE SERVICES T21/22-037 | Cobra Specialist Security Services | — | — | £11,363,316 † |
| TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF LOCK, UNLOCK, KEY HOLDING AND ALARM RESPONSE SERVICES T21/22-037 | Cobra Specialist Security Services | — | — | £1,136,316 † |
| Static Attendants T2627-002 | Cobra Specialist Security Services | 20 Jul 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 3 yrs | £943,460 ≈ £943k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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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.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 15 of 91 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Framework for the Provision of Electrical Services, Reactive and Project Works to Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council Facilities | B.I. Electrical (NI) Services, GR White & Son Ltd, H & J MARTIN CONSTRUCTION LIMITED +2 | 21 Jan 2027 | £648,000 |
| Provision of Stewarding and Crowd Control for Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council | Eventsec Ltd | 15 Mar 2027 | £59,847,600 |
| PPM and RM 10 Legionella Management for Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council | Graham Asset Management Ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £679,672 |
| Provision of an Integrated Marketing Campaign for Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council | ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTD | 14 Oct 2027 | £1,020,000 |
| LOT 1 Finished Summer Bedding | Pentland Plants Ltd | 30 Nov 2027 | £200,000 |
| LOT 2 Finished Winter Bedding | Pentland Plants Ltd | 30 Nov 2027 | £125,000 |
| Cleaning Services at Designated Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council Premises | THE MOUNT CHARLES GROUP LTD | 31 Dec 2027 | £3,655,825,200 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 178 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£118m, 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). 16 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 14 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 15 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 (10 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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