Milton Keynes Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITYONS register: Local-authority-districtNHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY - LEGACYLocal authorityWest MidlandsMilton Keynes

Find a Tender organisation id289Websitemilton-keynes.gov.uk ↗

Open now1next deadline 23 Sept 2027
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months0-100% vs prior 12 months (232)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot133% single-bid · 236 bid reports
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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 236 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share32%of 2,827 awarded procedures · 85 suppliers
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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.

2,827 awarded tenders, 85 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£130knet · on 77 of 232 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 40%
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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

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

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
SEND Independent School Placements - DPSDPS23 Sept 2027358d£26,000,000

What they buy
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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

How they buy
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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 · 232 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 100% (232 notices)
Procedure route
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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 100% (232 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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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 236 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

13robust · n=2363% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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 232 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

1126 of 232 notices amended

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Chiltern Healthcare44515.7%3944524 Feb 2025
Heritage Healthcare Milton Keynes2438.6%3924317 Feb 2025
Emiran HealthCare2288.1%4022824 Feb 2025
Care MK Ltd1505.3%2515017 Feb 2025
Bago care Limited1244.4%112417 Oct 2024
Oasis Care1113.9%1111131 Jan 2025
Assured Care Services (MK) LTD1113.9%811121 Feb 2025
Peach Care Services1013.6%910112 Feb 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 32% of 2,827 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 85 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£130kSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 77 of 232 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 40%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£604 middle valuerobust · n=77Middle half £306–£2k; 155 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
65+ yearsCare MK Ltd——£19,930 †
65+ years - Live inGenuine Carers——£9,086 †
65+ years - Live inChiltern Healthcare——£8,207 †
16-19 yearsElevate care ltd——£8,074 †
65+ years - Live inEmiran HealthCare——£6,278 †

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 2,839 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete24 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete24 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete24 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete24 Feb 2025—
18-64 yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete24 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete24 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete24 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete24 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete21 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete21 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete20 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete19 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete18 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete18 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete18 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete18 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete18 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete17 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete17 Feb 2025—
65+ yearsSocial work and related servicesAwarded / complete17 Feb 2025—

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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 (£665m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 232 award records on 232 procedures (232 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 77 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: 0 of 2,838 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (14 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-FTS-104523GB-FTS-12631GB-FTS-15471GB-FTS-2024GB-FTS-2025GB-FTS-28413GB-FTS-34334GB-FTS-38339GB-FTS-38340GB-FTS-39527GB-FTS-46949GB-FTS-59191GB-FTS-59674GB-FTS-9493

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-289