North Ayrshire Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Local-authority-districtLocal authorityScotlandIrvineCentral purchasing body on 8 of 59 notices

Find a Tender organisation id1083Websitenorth-ayrshire.gov.uk ↗

Open now3next deadline 26 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months35+46% vs prior 12 months (24)
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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 lot49.1% single-bid · 33 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 33 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share11%of 124 awarded procedures · 346 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.

124 awarded tenders, 346 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months1none within 6 months
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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 award value, 24m£65mnet · on 41 of 45 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 76%
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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

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 · 59 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 81% (48 notices)
  • Framework 19% (11 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 59% (35 notices)
  • Route not published 29% (17 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 12% (7 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 33 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4robust · n=339.1% 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 60 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

1.534 of 60 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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 15 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

15.9% below estimaterobust · n=15

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
Sodexo Limited86.5%088 Dec 2021
Key Housing Association Limited43.2%341 Jul 2026
The Richmond Fellowship Scotland Limitedframework/DPS on 143.2%241 Jul 2026
CHAP Group43.2%0428 Jun 2024
King Communications & Security Ltd32.4%2510 Oct 2025
ENABLE Scotlandframework/DPS on 132.4%231 Jul 2026
Acatch Environmental & Property Services Ltd32.4%2318 Sept 2026
Hansel Alliance32.4%231 Jul 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 11% of 124 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 346 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.

£65mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 41 of 45 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 76%.
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.

£274k middle valuerobust · n=41Middle half £193k–£806k.
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
B714 Upgrading ConstructionWills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd——£23,455,545 †
Measured Term Contract for Replacement Central Heating and Electrical Re-Wiring ProgrammeMcTear Contracts Ltd——£9,087,792 †
Lot 2: Castlecraigs Court, Glasgow Street, ArdrossanKey Housing Association Limited——£7,810,009 †
Bessie Dunlop Court, DalryCornerstone Community Care——£7,527,212 †
Provision of a Transitional Supported Living Service for Young PeopleBlue Triangle (Glasgow) Housing Association——£2,099,741 †

Contracts ending
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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 · 8 of 189 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
Lot 1 - Works in non-domestic properties.FES25 Feb 2028£300,000

Recent procedures

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

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Provision of Internal and External Hand / Grab RailsBuilders' joineryAwarded / complete18 Sept 2026£371,912
Provision of Statutory Transport Journeys to Lockhart Campus, StevenstonTaxi servicesAwarded / complete18 Sept 2026—
Ayrshire Meet the Buyer 2026Asbestos removal servicesPlanned10 Sept 2026£1
Provision of a Community Link NetworkGuidance and counselling servicesAwarded / complete10 Aug 2026£304,617
Early Learning and Childcare Flexible Framework Agreement (New Entrants 26/27)Framework2 lotsChild daycare servicesPlanned4 Aug 2026—
Community Support ServiceFrameworkcentral purchasing body6 lotsHealth and social work servicesOpen30 Jul 2026£84,119,850
Provision of External Health & Safety Training Courses.Frameworkcentral purchasing body3 lotsHealth and safety servicesAwarded / complete28 Jul 2026£390,400
NAC/5247 Provision of Planned, Ad-hoc and Emergency Arboricultural Works FrameworkFrameworkTree-cutting servicesPlanned28 Jul 2026£300,000
Supply and Delivery of Dairy Products2 lotsMilkOpen27 Jul 2026£984,924
Measured Term Contract for the Service, Maintenance and Repairs of Passenger, Platform and Goods Lifts2 lotsGoods liftsAwarded / complete23 Jul 2026£400,000
MTC for General Repairs and Annual Maintenance of Sustainable Urban Drainage (SUD’s) Installations (Readvertisement)central purchasing bodyDrainage systemOpen2 Jul 2026£200,000
Measured Term Contract 2026 - 2029 - Electrical Installation Condition Reports and Remedial WorksElectrical-system repair servicesAwarded / complete25 Jun 2026£1,250,000
Flexible Advanced Industrial Unit (Design and Build) – Phase 2 of i3 Business Parkcentral purchasing bodyBuilding construction workOpen8 May 2026£6,046,900
Provision of Gas and Electrical Audit ServicesAccounting and auditing servicesAwarded / complete23 Apr 2026£200,000
Servicing and Repair of ASN Equipment, North Ayrshirecentral purchasing bodyDevices for the disabledAwarded / complete16 Apr 2026£200,000
Residential Care Setting for One Adult with Learning Disability (PIN - Market Engagement)central purchasing bodyResidential health facilities servicesPlanned27 Mar 2026—
Graphic Design and Digital Media FrameworkFramework2 lotsAdvertising and marketing servicesAwarded / complete24 Mar 2026—
Supply and Distribution of Milk (PIN - Market Engagement)Dairy productsPlanned23 Mar 2026—
Software Maintenance Agreement and Support Agreement – Apex Asset Management Softwarecentral purchasing bodySoftware maintenance and repair servicesAwarded / complete23 Mar 2026—
Provision of First Aid Training to North, East & South Ayrshire CouncilsHealth and first-aid training servicesAwarded / complete11 Feb 2026£305,000

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 (£292m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 60 award records on 37 procedures (45 to a single canonical supplier, 15 multi-supplier). 41 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: 8 of 189 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 0 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.

GB-FTS-28277GB-FTS-49169GB-FTS-73952GB-FTS-75894GB-FTS-78007

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-1083