Orkney Islands Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Kirkwall
Find a Tender organisation id4848Websiteorkney.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 18 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.
51 awarded tenders, 48 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
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Dynamic Purchasing - Construction, Civil Engineering and associated works REVISED | 17 Jun 2030 | 1356d | £47,000,000 |
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 work10 procedures · 27% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering9 procedures · 24% · 1 open90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental9 procedures · 24% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services7 procedures · 19% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting5 procedures · 14%63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel4 procedures · 11% · 1 open98 Other community, social and personal services4 procedures · 11% · 1 open85 Health and social work services4 procedures · 11%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 · 37 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 92% (34 notices)
- Framework 5% (2 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 3% (1 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 68% (25 notices)
- Selective 24% (9 notices)
- Limited / restricted 5% (2 notices)
- Route not published 3% (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 18 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 37 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 14 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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| Northwards Ltd | 3 | 5.9% | 1 | 3 | 5 Mar 2026 |
| VOYAGE 1 LIMITED | 2 | 3.9% | 2 | 2 | 20 Apr 2026 |
| QMPF LLP | 2 | 3.9% | 1 | 2 | 13 Mar 2026 |
| R Clouston ltd | 2 | 3.9% | 1 | 2 | 13 Apr 2026 |
| Loganair Limited | 2 | 3.9% | 1 | 2 | 21 Jan 2025 |
| James Wilson (Orkney) Ltd. | 2 | 3.9% | 1 | 2 | 13 Oct 2025 |
| Sinclair Haulage | 2 | 3.9% | 0 | 2 | 17 Jun 2022 |
| JW Gray & Co | 2 | 3.9% | 0 | 2 | 12 Jun 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 14% of 51 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 48 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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| Orkney Community Wind Farms - Turbine Supply Agreement & Full Service Agreement | Nordex UK Ltd. | — | — | £39,770,838 † |
| Quanterness Wind Farm - ECC | Heddle Construction Ltd | — | — | £14,053,315 † |
| Provision of Inter-Island Air Services for Orkney Outer North Isles | Loganair Limited | — | — | £6,821,240 † |
| Container Shipment of Waste to Shetland | Northwards Ltd | — | — | £3,000,000 † |
| Care Home for Adults with Learning Disabilities including Autism | VOYAGE 1 LIMITED | — | — | £2,602,780 † |
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 · 12 of 64 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Invitation to Tender for the Provision of Web Services | NB Communication Ltd | 31 Jul 2027 | £214,500 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 86 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£162m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 22 award records on 20 procedures (22 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 21 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: 12 of 64 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.
Canonical page id: GB-FTS-4848