Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY - LEGACY·Local authority·Wales (Cymru)·Merthyr Tudful Merthyr Tydfil
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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 13 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.
98 awarded tenders, 140 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
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Copy of Fframwaith Gofal Cartref Merthyr Tudful 2027 / Merthyr Tydfil Domiciliary Care Framework 2027 | 12 Oct 2026 | 12d | £43,000,000 |
| Arfarniad Opsiynau Tŷ Coch Red House Options Appraisal | 23 Oct 2026 | 23d | £25,000 |
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
85 Health and social work services11 procedures · 17% · 1 open45 Construction work11 procedures · 17%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental6 procedures · 10%73 Research and development services4 procedures · 6% · 1 open92 Recreational, cultural and sporting3 procedures · 5% · 1 open34 Transport equipment and products2 procedures · 3%44 Construction structures and materials2 procedures · 3%50 Repair and maintenance services2 procedures · 3%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 · 63 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 73% (46 notices)
- Framework 25% (16 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 2% (1 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 48% (30 notices)
- Limited / restricted 24% (15 notices)
- Selective 13% (8 notices)
- Route not published 11% (7 notices)
- Direct award 5% (3 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 13 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 20 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 63 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 14 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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| Evan's Taxi & Minibus Hire | 9 | 9.2% | 1 | 57 | 28 Sept 2026 |
| Abdul kashim | 9 | 9.2% | 0 | 22 | 14 Nov 2023 |
| First Call Travel Ltd | 7 | 7.1% | 1 | 15 | 28 Sept 2026 |
| TAFF’S TAXI’S | 6 | 6.1% | 1 | 9 | 28 Sept 2026 |
| Marton Civil Engineering Ltd | 5 | 5.1% | 5 | 5 | 6 Aug 2026 |
| Amanda’s Cabs | 5 | 5.1% | 1 | 6 | 28 Sept 2026 |
| ACORN TRAVEL(SOUTH WALES)LTD | 5 | 5.1% | 1 | 5 | 28 Sept 2026 |
| SIXTY SIXTY COACHES LIMITED | 4 | 4.1% | 1 | 10 | 28 Sept 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 98 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 140 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.
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 · 39 of 318 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Adnewyddu Toiledau Troedyrhiw Troedyrhiw WC Refurbishment | 2D Building Contractors | 30 Sept 2026 | £88,949 |
| Argae'r Pwll Newydd/Uchaf, gwaith amddiffyn rhag tonnau. New/Top Pond Dam, wave protection works | MCCARTHY CONTRACTORS (BRIDGEND) LIMITED | 2 Oct 2026 | £147,860 |
| Goat Mill Road Culvert Rehabilitation Works | MATCON Civil Engineering and Groundworks Limited | 9 Oct 2026 | £194,303 |
| Adnewyddu Canolfan Ieuenctid Afon Taf Afon Taff Youth Centre Refurbishment | ACE BUILDING CONTRACTORS (WALES) LTD | 18 Dec 2026 | £1,282,778 |
| Better Futures | Barnardo Services Limited | 31 Mar 2027 | £31,603 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 124 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 (£151m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 125 award records on 42 procedures (108 to a single canonical supplier, 13 multi-supplier, 4 with no supplier published). 18 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- 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: 39 of 318 published contracts carry a period end; 5 end within 18 months, 4 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (5 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PPMD-1137-QDJJ