Scottish Ambulance Service: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS & health·Scotland·Edinburgh·Central purchasing body on 11 of 13 notices
Find a Tender organisation id4476Websitescottishambulance.com ↗
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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 72 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.
20 awarded tenders, 41 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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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
50 Repair and maintenance services6 procedures · 46%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 15%31 Electrical machinery1 procedures · 8%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 8%77 Agricultural, forestry, horticultural services1 procedures · 8%80 Education and training services1 procedures · 8%85 Health and social work services1 procedures · 8%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 · 13 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.
Contract92%(12 notices)
12 of 13 notices are Contract (92%).Framework8%(1 notices)
1 of 13 notices are Framework (8%).
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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.
Open85%(11 notices)
11 of 13 notices are Open (85%).Limited / restricted8%(1 notices)
1 of 13 notices are Limited / restricted (8%).Route not published8%(1 notices)
1 of 13 notices are Route not published (8%).
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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 72 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 13 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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| Valley Group Limited | 2 | 10% | 2 | 11 | — |
| Terrafix Limited | 2 | 10% | 0 | 2 | — |
| Assa Abloy | 1 | 5% | 1 | 11 | — |
| Aqualiance Ltd | 1 | 5% | 1 | 8 | — |
| ADT Fire & Security | 1 | 5% | 1 | 8 | — |
| R A Cox (Garage Equipment) | 1 | 5% | 1 | 6 | — |
| WB Electrical services | 1 | 5% | 1 | 5 | — |
| Richard Irvin FM Limited | 1 | 5% | 1 | 3 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 25% of 20 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 41 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 published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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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| Volunteer Enhancement Project: Responder App | MIS Emergency Systems | — | — | £277,338 † |
| Cardonald Site Generator Replacement & Upgrade works | John Heaney (Electrical) Limited | — | — | £187,377 † |
| North West Region | WB Electrical services | — | — | £27,655 † |
| North East Region | WB Electrical services | — | — | £26,528 † |
| Argyle & Clyde Region | Emtec Facility Services Limited | — | — | £23,645 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
Published end dates only · 3 of 92 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Provision of Airwave Terminal Support and Maintenance to the Scottish Ambulance Service | Terrafix Limited | 31 Dec 2026 | Not published |
Recent procedures
Latest 28 of 28 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Patient Transport ServiceTransport services (excl. Waste transport) | Awarded / complete | 17 Aug 2022 | £800,000 |
| National Air Ambulance Service for The Scottish Ambulance ServiceAir-rescue services | Not published | 28 Jul 2022 | — |
| National Air Ambulance Service for The Scottish Ambulance ServiceAerial and related services | Open | 19 Jul 2022 | — |
| Procurement of a National Air Ambulance Service for The Scottish Ambulance ServiceAerial and related services | Planned | 26 Apr 2022 | £160,000,000 |
| Provision of Urgent Office Fit Out WorksRefurbishment work | Awarded / complete | 3 Nov 2021 | — |
| Vehicle ConversionsAmbulance conversion services | Awarded / complete | 4 May 2021 | — |
| Installation and De-Installation of Mobile Radio and Ancillary EquipmentAmbulance conversion services | Awarded / complete | 5 Mar 2021 | — |
| Vehicle ConversionsAmbulance conversion services | Awarded / complete | 4 Feb 2021 | — |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- 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. 3 of 92 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.