Open69%(48 notices)
48 of 70 notices are Open (69%).
Route not published16%(11 notices)
11 of 70 notices are Route not published (16%).
Limited / restricted10%(7 notices)
7 of 70 notices are Limited / restricted (10%).
Direct award6%(4 notices)
4 of 70 notices are Direct award (6%).

Typical bids per lot

Based on 24 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

3robust · n=2412.5% of lots drew a single bid

Deadline → award

Based on 24 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

26 daysrobust · n=24

Notice amendments

Based on 70 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

0.535 of 70 notices amended

Award vs estimate

Based on 20 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

14.4% below estimaterobust · n=20

Who wins here
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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
D McNair & Son Ltd	31	13.1%	1	31	1 Nov 2024
Trac HLM Ltd	15	6.4%	8	15	22 Apr 2026
TRAC ENGINEERING LIMITED	11	4.7%	0	11	29 Apr 2022
Certas Energy UK Limited	8	3.4%	4	8	29 Jul 2025
TRAC Engineering Ltd	5	2.1%	0	5	14 Feb 2023
Accted Ltd	4	1.7%	4	4	4 Nov 2026
Phoenix Software Ltd	4	1.7%	1	4	28 Sept 2026
British Telecommunications Plc	4	1.7%	0	4	31 Mar 2023

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 24% of 236 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 141 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)

£6.8mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 42 of 42 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 55%.

Typical single-supplier award (24m)

£71k middle valuerobust · n=42Middle half £43k–£147k.

Largest published awards i	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
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
Refurbishment and Upgrade of Dunnet head Lighthouse	Trac HLM Ltd	20 Jan 2026	10 mo	£261,794

Contracts ending
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207 of 214 contracts carry an end date, 6 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
CISCO WIRELESS SOLUTION - EDINBURGH & OBAN	British Telecom	19 Nov 2026	£84,879
GB-Edinburgh: ENDPOINT PROTECTION SOFTWARE AND THREAT DETECTION AND RESPONSE SOLUTION	Phoenix Software Ltd	11 Dec 2026	£88,767
Bilateral GLA Framework Agreement for Racon Beacons	Sealite UK Ltd	12 Feb 2027	£1,424,944 ceiling
Minor Refurbishment of North Rona Lighthouse	Trac HLM Ltd	19 Mar 2027	£125,156
Marine Gas Oil - NLV Pharos	Certas Energy UK Limited	31 Mar 2027	£45,250
Marine Gas Oil - NLV Pharos	Certas Energy UK Limited	31 Mar 2027	£33,327
Marine Gas Oil - NLV Pharos	Certas Energy UK Limited	31 Mar 2027	£36,897
Marine Gas Oil - NLV Pharos	Certas Energy UK Limited	31 Mar 2027	£19,135
Rubha Reidh Road Repairs	Leiths (Scotland) Ltd	31 Mar 2027	£81,853
Refurbishment of Maughold Head and Douglas Head Lighthouses	Trac HLM Ltd	31 Mar 2027	£199,222

Soonest 10 of 25 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 84 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
Cable Management System- Shore to Ship Power, Oban BaseCadaver lifter or transfer devices	Planning	25 Feb 2026	£450,000
Framework for the Supply of Control CubiclesFrameworkElectrical components	Planning	20 Feb 2026	£350,000
Refurbishment and Upgrade of Dunnet head Lighthouse	Awarded / complete	16 Feb 2026	—
ICT Laptop purchaseFrameworkTablet computer	Awarded / complete	3 Feb 2026	—
Minor Refurbishment of Dubh Sgeir (Castlebay), Rubha Glas Front, Rubha Glas Rear, and Sgeir LiathPainting work	Awarded / complete	26 Jan 2026	£135,000
Offshore Crane Operator TrainingIndustrial and technical training services	Awarded / complete	20 Jan 2026	£36,000
Generator Connection PointElectrical installation work	Awarded / complete	14 Jan 2026	£35,000
CONTROL CUBICLES – DUNNET HEAD LIGHTHOUSEElectronic components	Open	7 Jan 2026	£12,000

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Contracts Finder adds 253 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.

About this data

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. 207 of 214 published contracts have an end date; 6 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.