Scottish Borders Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Newtown St Boswells, Melrose
Official UK PPONPVRH-6348-LJJG
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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 8 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.
43 awarded tenders, 368 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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.
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
85 Health and social work services9 procedures · 33%71 Architectural, construction, engineering7 procedures · 26%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental6 procedures · 22%60 Transport services (except waste transport)4 procedures · 15%80 Education and training services4 procedures · 15%34 Transport equipment and products3 procedures · 11%45 Construction work3 procedures · 11%50 Repair and maintenance services2 procedures · 7%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 · 27 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 78% (21 notices)
- Framework 22% (6 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 59% (16 notices)
- Limited / restricted 19% (5 notices)
- Route not published 19% (5 notices)
- Selective 4% (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 8 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 27 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 5 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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| Irvine Plant Ltd | 5 | 11.6% | 2 | 13 | 9 Apr 2026 |
| Borders Machinery Ring Ltd | 4 | 9.3% | 2 | 19 | 9 Apr 2026 |
| Swans minicoach hire | 4 | 9.3% | 2 | 13 | 9 Apr 2026 |
| Ray Sutherland Roofing Contractors Ltd | 3 | 7% | 1 | 14 | 9 Apr 2026 |
| Ian Gourlay Tree Services | 3 | 7% | 1 | 12 | 9 Apr 2026 |
| T & R Keddie Blacksmiths | 3 | 7% | 1 | 7 | 9 Apr 2026 |
| MEH Builders and Joiners | 3 | 7% | 1 | 6 | 9 Apr 2026 |
| Ballantynes Tree Services | 3 | 7% | 1 | 5 | 9 Apr 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 12% of 43 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 368 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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| Award - Treatment and Disposal of Residual Bulky Commercial and Street Cleansing Waste | Cireco (Scotland) LLP | — | — | £9,450,000 † |
| Young Carers and Family Drug and Alcohol Support Service | Action for Children | — | — | £1,000,000 † |
| School Counselling Service | MYPAS | — | — | £893,333 † |
| Purchase of Used Refuse Collection Vehicles | Refuse Vehicle Solutions Limited | — | — | £820,000 † |
| Award - Residential Respite and Weekend and Summer Activity Clubs | Aberlour Child Care Trust | — | — | £585,990 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 61 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| WEATHER FORECASTING, BUREAU, AND ASSOCIATED SERVICESWeather-forecasting services | Awarded / complete | 15 Sept 2026 | £960,000 |
| Purchase of two buses | Awarded / complete | 20 Aug 2026 | — |
| Care at Home Flexible FrameworkHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 11 Aug 2026 | £76,500,000 |
| Funded Early Learning and Childcare Places Framework Agreement - Reopening May 2026Child daycare services | Unsuccessful | 7 Jul 2026 | £3,000,000 |
| Young Carers and Family Drug and Alcohol Support ServiceHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 25 Jun 2026 | £1,000,000 |
| Water Sampling ServiceServices related to water pollution | Awarded / complete | 6 May 2026 | £250,000 |
| PIN - Easter Langlee Solar PV Feasibility StudyCivil engineering consultancy services | Planned | 14 Apr 2026 | — |
| Subcontractor Services Framework AgreementAnalysis services | Awarded / complete | 9 Apr 2026 | £25,000,000 |
| Process Improvement ConsultantBusiness and management consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 27 Jan 2026 | £100,000 |
| Purchase of Used Refuse Collection VehiclesRefuse-collection vehicles | Awarded / complete | 6 Jan 2026 | — |
| Bridge and Culvert InspectionsBridge-inspection services | Awarded / complete | 22 Dec 2025 | £400,000 |
| Tar TankerRoad-maintenance equipment | Awarded / complete | 10 Sept 2025 | — |
| Peebles High School and Galashiels Academy Full Schools DecantRelocation services | Awarded / complete | 9 Sept 2025 | — |
| Funded Early Learning and Childcare Places Framework Agreement - Reopening May 2025Child daycare services | Awarded / complete | 2 Sept 2025 | £3,000,000 |
| Mathematics ApplicationEducational software package | Awarded / complete | 1 Sept 2025 | — |
| Award - Residential Respite and Weekend and Summer Activity ClubsSocial work services with accommodation | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2025 | — |
| Award - Treatment and Disposal of Residual Bulky Commercial and Street Cleansing WasteNon-hazardous refuse and waste treatment and disposal services | Awarded / complete | 18 Jul 2025 | — |
| Berwickshire Taxi Bus DRTPublic road transport services | Cancelled | 26 Jun 2025 | — |
| School Counselling ServiceGuidance and counselling services | Awarded / complete | 13 Jun 2025 | — |
| PIN - Children's Advocacy ServicesHealth and social work services | Planned | 9 Jun 2025 | £330,000 |
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 (£3.0m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 39 award records on 19 procedures (16 to a single canonical supplier, 23 multi-supplier). 13 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: 5 of 137 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.
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