North Ayrshire Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Irvine·Central purchasing body on 8 of 60 notices
Find a Tender organisation id1083Websitenorth-ayrshire.gov.uk ↗
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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 33 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.
124 awarded tenders, 346 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
4 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Measured Term Contract for Combined Re-Roofing, Re-Rendering, EWI and Solar PV Programme | 26 Oct 2026 | 26d | £44,894,399 |
| Provision of an Alcohol and Drug Prevention, Early Intervention and Recovery Support Service | 28 Oct 2026 | 28d | £2,200,000 |
| Provision of a Specialist Huntington's Disease Service | 30 Oct 2026 | 30d | £601,765 |
| Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of Statutory Transport Journeys on behalf of North Ayrshire Council | 31 Mar 2027 | 182d | £12,580,836 |
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 services18 procedures · 30% · 2 open50 Repair and maintenance services13 procedures · 22% · 1 open45 Construction work12 procedures · 20% · 1 open98 Other community, social and personal services10 procedures · 17% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting9 procedures · 15%80 Education and training services8 procedures · 13%71 Architectural, construction, engineering7 procedures · 12%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental6 procedures · 10%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 · 60 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 82% (49 notices)
- Framework 18% (11 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 60% (36 notices)
- Route not published 28% (17 notices)
- Limited / restricted 12% (7 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 33 lots from this buyer’s competitions, 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 60 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 15 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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| Sodexo Limited | 8 | 6.5% | 0 | 8 | 8 Dec 2021 |
| Key Housing Association Limited | 4 | 3.2% | 3 | 4 | 1 Jul 2026 |
| The Richmond Fellowship Scotland Limited | 4 | 3.2% | 2 | 4 | 1 Jul 2026 |
| CHAP Group | 4 | 3.2% | 0 | 4 | 28 Jun 2024 |
| King Communications & Security Ltd | 3 | 2.4% | 2 | 5 | 10 Oct 2025 |
| ENABLE Scotland | 3 | 2.4% | 2 | 3 | 1 Jul 2026 |
| Acatch Environmental & Property Services Ltd | 3 | 2.4% | 2 | 3 | 18 Sept 2026 |
| Hansel Alliance | 3 | 2.4% | 2 | 3 | 1 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.
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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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| B714 Upgrading Construction | Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd | — | — | £23,455,545 † |
| Measured Term Contract for Replacement Central Heating and Electrical Re-Wiring Programme | McTear Contracts Ltd | — | — | £9,087,792 † |
| Lot 2: Castlecraigs Court, Glasgow Street, Ardrossan | Key Housing Association Limited | — | — | £7,810,009 † |
| Bessie Dunlop Court, Dalry | Cornerstone Community Care | — | — | £7,527,212 † |
| Provision of a Transitional Supported Living Service for Young People | Blue Triangle (Glasgow) Housing Association | — | — | £2,099,741 † |
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 · 8 of 189 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Lot 1 - Works in non-domestic properties. | FES | 25 Feb 2028 | £300,000 |
| Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) for Non-domestic properties. | UK TEST LTD | 31 Mar 2028 | £287,097 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 179 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Community Link Network DevelopmentOther community | Planned | 20 May 2025 | £507,695 |
| Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) for Non-domestic properties.Repair and maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 20 May 2025 | — |
| Provision of Supported Living Service within Supported AccommodationOther community | Planned | 20 May 2025 | £15,296,039 |
| Measured Term Contract for Water Quality Management ServicesAnalysis services | Awarded / complete | 17 Apr 2025 | £1,000,000 |
| Measured Term Contract for Replacement Central Heating and Electrical Re-Wiring ProgrammeBoiler installation work | Awarded / complete | 9 Apr 2025 | £11,086,430 |
| NAC/5164 Framework Agreement for Provision of Ad-Hoc Vehicle Repairs, Maintenance Services & RecoveryBreakdown and recovery services for cars | Awarded / complete | 7 Mar 2025 | £1,600,000 |
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; 2 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.
Canonical page id: GB-FTS-1083