Northern Lighthouse Board: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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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 25 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.
56 awarded tenders, 43 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
3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| NLV Pharos Dry Dock Services 2027 | 5 Oct 2026 | 5d | £550,000 |
| NLV Pharos Harbour Generator Overhaul | 5 Oct 2026 | 5d | £85,000 |
| Water Management - Legionella | 19 Oct 2026 | 19d | £124,000 |
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
45 Construction work29 procedures · 45% · 2 open34 Transport equipment and products13 procedures · 20%31 Electrical machinery7 procedures · 11%71 Architectural, construction, engineering6 procedures · 9% · 2 open63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel4 procedures · 6% · 1 open42 Industrial machinery4 procedures · 6%44 Construction structures and materials4 procedures · 6%50 Repair and maintenance services3 procedures · 5% · 1 openHow 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 · 65 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 94% (61 notices)
- Framework 6% (4 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 69% (45 notices)
- Route not published 12% (8 notices)
- Limited / restricted 11% (7 notices)
- Direct award 6% (4 notices)
- Selective 2% (1 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 25 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 24 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 65 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 25 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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| Trac HLM Ltd | 7 | 12.5% | 7 | 7 | 7 Aug 2026 |
| Accted Ltd | 3 | 5.4% | 3 | 3 | 23 Jun 2026 |
| Mrs J C Altham & Sons (Lancaster) Limited | 2 | 3.6% | 2 | 2 | 8 Sept 2025 |
| Accted Engineering | 2 | 3.6% | 2 | 2 | 5 Sept 2025 |
| Dart Industrial Services Limited | 2 | 3.6% | 2 | 2 | 3 Jun 2026 |
| MP&E Trading Co Ltd. T/A EMR Integrated Solutions | 2 | 3.6% | 2 | 2 | 14 Sept 2026 |
| PLM Dollar Group Ltd (trading as PDG Aviation Services) | 2 | 3.6% | 1 | 2 | 3 Jul 2026 |
| Fire Protection Group (FPG) Ltd | 2 | 3.6% | 0 | 2 | 5 Oct 2021 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 21% of 56 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 43 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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| Bi-Lateral GLA Aviation Services Project | PLM Dollar Group Ltd (trading as PDG Aviation Services) | — | — | £59,360,000 † |
| TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF SOLAR PANELS FOR THE GENERAL LIGHTHOUSE AUTHORITIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND REFERENCE: GLA/SOLA/2262 | Solar Capture Technologies Ltd | — | — | £2,345,200 † |
| Bass Rock Refurbishment 2025 - 2027 | Accted Engineering | 5 Sept 2025 | 1.3 yrs · up to 2.3 yrs | £550,000 ≈ £413k/yr |
| Refurbishment and Upgrade of Calf of Eday Lighthouse | Accted Ltd | 11 Mar 2026 | 5 mo | £303,640 |
| Refurbishment and Upgrade of Noup Head Lighthouse | RS Merriman Limited | 27 May 2026 | 9 mo | £295,707 |
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 · 11 of 28 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Minor Refurbishment of North Rona Lighthouse | Trac HLM Ltd | 19 Mar 2027 | £125,156 |
| Rubha Reidh Road Repairs | Leiths (Scotland) Ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £81,853 |
| Helicopter Services | PLM Dollar Group Ltd (trading as PDG Aviation Services), PLM Dollar Group Ltd (trading as PDG Aviation Services) | 1 Dec 2027 | £23,000,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 86 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Rubha Reidh Road RepairsBridge renewal construction work | Awarded / complete | 15 Sept 2026 | £30,000 |
| RTU's and M2M Communications ManagementSIM cards | Awarded / complete | 14 Sept 2026 | £180,000 |
| Ignition Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) SupportScada or equivalent system | Awarded / complete | 10 Sept 2026 | £152,000 |
| Naval Architecture ServicesEngineering design services | Planned | 7 Sept 2026 | £1,900,000 |
| Skerry of Ness and Hoxa Head Lighthouse RefurbishmentsRefurbishment work | Open | 26 Aug 2026 | £75,000 |
| Refurbishment of Maughold Head and Douglas Head LighthousesPainting work of buildings | Open | 26 Aug 2026 | £180,000 |
| Minor Refurbishment of North Rona LighthousePainting work | Awarded / complete | 7 Aug 2026 | £150,000 |
| Crisis Media ManagementCrisis management services | Awarded / complete | 27 Jul 2026 | £65,000 |
| NLB HQ Roof Works ProjectRoof maintenance work | Open | 24 Jul 2026 | £300,000 |
| Refurbishment of NLB Oban Base Store RoofRoof maintenance work | Open | 22 Jul 2026 | £300,000 |
| Hoy Sound (Hoy High)Painting work | Planning | 16 Jul 2026 | £100,000 |
| Nickel Metal Hydride BatteriesBattery packs | Planning | 7 Jul 2026 | £950,000 |
| Low Power Timers and Transmitters | Awarded / complete | 6 Jul 2026 | — |
| Bi-Lateral GLA Aviation Services ProjectAerial and related services | Awarded / complete | 3 Jul 2026 | £67,000,000 |
| Maintenance and Redecoration of Rumble Rock Lighthouse | Awarded / complete | 29 Jun 2026 | — |
| Cable Management System- Shore to Ship Power, Oban BaseHarbour equipment | Open | 29 Jun 2026 | £500,000 |
| Northern Lighthouse Board HQ Roof WorksRoof maintenance work | Planning | 26 Jun 2026 | £300,000 |
| Buoy Lanterns | Awarded / complete | 24 Jun 2026 | — |
| Minor Refurbishment and Upgrade of Point of Fethaland Lighthouse | Awarded / complete | 5 Jun 2026 | — |
| Refurbishment and Upgarde of Noup Head LighthouseElectrical installation work | Awarded / complete | 4 Jun 2026 | £375,000 |
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 (£80m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 44 award records on 42 procedures (44 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 9 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: 11 of 28 published contracts carry a period end; 3 end within 18 months, 1 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (10 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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