National Library of Scotland: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Scotland·Edinburgh·Central purchasing body on 6 of 8 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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
13 awarded tenders, 11 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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.
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
48 Software package and information systems4 procedures · 50%22 Printed matter and related products2 procedures · 25%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 25%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting2 procedures · 25%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 procedures · 13%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 · 8 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.
Contract100%(8 notices)
8 of 8 notices are Contract (100%).
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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.
Open63%(5 notices)
5 of 8 notices are Open (63%).Limited / restricted25%(2 notices)
2 of 8 notices are Limited / restricted (25%).Route not published13%(1 notices)
1 of 8 notices are Route not published (13%).
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 8 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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| Richard Irvin FM Limited | 2 | 15.4% | 0 | 3 | — |
| Conservation By Design Limited | 2 | 15.4% | 0 | 3 | — |
| Concerto Support Services | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Connect Publications (Scotland) Ltd | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | — |
| XMA Limited | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Total Enterprise Solutions | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Amazon Web Services EMEA Sarl | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | — |
| KLUG-CONSERVATION, Walter Klug GmbH & Co. KG | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 38% of 13 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 11 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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| Archival Boxboard | KLUG-CONSERVATION, Walter Klug GmbH & Co. KG | — | — | £577,000 † |
| Virtual Servers | XMA Limited | — | — | £551,000 † |
| Cloud Hosting | Amazon Web Services EMEA Sarl | — | — | £360,000 † |
| Design, Editing, Production and Distribution Services for Discover Magazine,other Library Publications and associated services | Connect Publications (Scotland) Ltd | — | — | £322,000 † |
| Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Solution | Brightwire | — | — | £181,400 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 17 of 17 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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| Customer Relationship Management (CRM) SolutionSoftware consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 17 Jul 2026 | £245,000 |
| Film Scanner and Digitisation SystemImaging and archiving system | Open | 17 Jul 2026 | £150,000 |
| Archival BoxboardHand-made paper or paperboard | Awarded / complete | 8 Jul 2026 | £480,000 |
| Cloud - Based Computerised Maintenance Management SystemFacilities management software package and software package suite | Awarded / complete | 23 Feb 2026 | £250,000 |
| Design, Editing, Production and Distribution Services for Discover Magazine,other Library Publications and associated servicesArtistic and literary creation and interpretation services | Not published | 15 Jan 2026 | — |
| Supply of Archival BoxboardCorrugated paper or paperboard | Awarded / complete | 14 Jan 2026 | £160,000 |
| Cloud HostingData services | Awarded / complete | 21 Nov 2025 | — |
| Virtual ServersComputer servers | Awarded / complete | 21 Nov 2025 | — |
| Finance System ReplacementBusiness transaction and personal business software package | Awarded / complete | 4 Sept 2025 | £250,000 |
| Cloud Based Computerized Maintenance Management SystemIndustry specific software package | Planned | 16 Sept 2024 | £150,000 |
| Causewayside Compartment Damper and Associated Works – Major Construction ProjectBuilding installation work | Awarded / complete | 24 Jul 2024 | £4,000,000 |
| The complete purchase of a Box Cutting Machine - including delivery, installation, training plus an annual support and service term contract.Industrial machinery | Awarded / complete | 7 May 2024 | £120,000 |
| The National Library of Scotland Project Management and Professional Property ServicesProject management consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 24 Apr 2024 | £1,500,000 |
| Smoke Extract and Fire Damper ReplacementBuilding installation work | Cancelled | 9 Nov 2023 | £5,500,000 |
| RFI - map scanner replacement - large format flat-bed systemScanner document feeders | Planned | 8 Sept 2022 | £80,000 |
| National Library of Scotland Facilities Management - Multi Lot ContractBuilding construction work | Awarded / complete | 11 Jul 2022 | £9,500,000 |
| Semi Permanent Exhibition - Design, Build & Digital Interpretation Services and Ongoing Support - COVID 19 - ModificationAudio-visual equipment | Not published | 14 Dec 2021 | — |
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. 0 of 15 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.