Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Scotland·Edinburgh·Central purchasing body on 5 of 5 notices
Find a Tender organisation id183796
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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 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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| Bespoke and specialist exhibition display production design & fitout services | 29 Sept 2026 | 3d | — |
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
48 Software package and information systems3 procedures · 60%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances2 procedures · 40% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 40% · 1 open72 IT services: consulting, software, internet1 procedures · 20%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 · 5 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 100% (5 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.
- Limited / restricted 60% (3 notices)
- Open 40% (2 notices)
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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 5 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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| Softcat Plc | 1 | 16.7% | 1 | 1 | 27 Aug 2026 |
| Computacenter | 1 | 16.7% | 1 | 1 | 7 Jul 2026 |
| Blackbaud Europe | 1 | 16.7% | 1 | 1 | 25 Mar 2026 |
| Raymond Gubbay Ltd | 1 | 16.7% | 0 | 2 | 1 Jun 2022 |
| Complete Works (Boo Consultancy Ltd) | 1 | 16.7% | 0 | 1 | 18 Mar 2024 |
| Raymond Gubbay Ltd T/A Sony Music | 1 | 16.7% | 0 | 1 | 5 Apr 2023 |
6 awarded procedures across 6 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
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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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| Microsoft Licences | Softcat Plc | — | — | £215,333 † |
| Ticketing SaaS for Admissions and Events | Computacenter | — | — | £146,730 † |
| CRM Fundraising and Donor Management SaaS | Blackbaud Europe | — | — | £85,692 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 11 of 11 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Microsoft LicencesSoftware package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 27 Aug 2026 | — |
| Ticketing SaaS for Admissions and EventsPoint of sale (POS) software package | Awarded / complete | 7 Jul 2026 | — |
| RBGE - Bespoke and specialist exhibition display production design & fitout servicesExhibition equipment | Open | 4 Jun 2026 | — |
| CRM Fundraising and Donor Management SaaSCustomer Relation Management software package | Awarded / complete | 25 Mar 2026 | — |
| Membership Recruitment and Visitor Giving CampaignEvent services | Awarded / complete | 18 Mar 2024 | — |
| RBGE - Edinburgh Garden Catering ConcessionCanteen and catering services | Open | 24 Apr 2023 | £12,500,000 |
| CHRISTMAS LIGHTING EVENT CONCESSION AT ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGHEvent services | Awarded / complete | 5 Apr 2023 | £7,000,000 |
| RBGE - Edinburgh Garden Catering ConcessionaireCatering services | Planned | 17 Feb 2023 | £12,500,000 |
| Management and Production of an Illuminated Trail EventEvent services | Awarded / complete | 1 Jun 2022 | — |
| RBGE Winter illuminated trailEvent services | Planned | 2 May 2022 | £7,000,000 |
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 (£39m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 3 award records on 3 procedures (3 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 3 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: 0 of 7 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (2 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-183796