Scottish Government: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·Scotland·Glasgow·Central purchasing body on 142 of 157 notices
Official UK PPONPVCB-3739-TNGL
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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 70 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.
352 awarded tenders, 388 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, 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.
Open notices
9 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Purchase & Installation of Echosounder System | 30 Nov 2026 | 19d | £150,000 |
| Purchase of Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) Instrument | 30 Nov 2026 | 19d | £150,000 |
| Framework for the provison of Temporary & Interim Staff Services | 7 Dec 2026 | 26d | £450,000,000 |
| Internet of Things | 17 Sept 2027 | 310d | £3,500,000 |
| Single Building Assessment(s) for Fire Safety in Scotland | 18 Jan 2028 | 433d | — |
| Telephony and Communication Services Dynamic Purchasing System | 27 Mar 2028 | 502d | £48,000,000 |
| Grant Fund Manager Dynamic Purchasing System | 5 Jan 2029 | 786d | £80,000,000 |
| Civil Engineering Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) Scotland - projects up to 5 million GBP | 4 Oct 2030 | 1,423d | £180,000,000 |
| Fire Alarm Design, Installation, and Associated Project Management Services DPS | 27 Jun 2031 | 1,689d | £12,500,000 |
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
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet39 procedures · 25% · 2 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting34 procedures · 22% · 2 open50 Repair and maintenance services26 procedures · 17%71 Architectural, construction, engineering23 procedures · 15% · 2 open73 Research and development services22 procedures · 14%34 Transport equipment and products19 procedures · 12%48 Software package and information systems13 procedures · 8% · 1 open80 Education and training services9 procedures · 6%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 · 157 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.
Contract80%(126 notices)
126 of 157 notices are Contract (80%).Framework18%(28 notices)
28 of 157 notices are Framework (18%).Dynamic purchasing system2%(3 notices)
3 of 157 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (2%).
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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.
Open71%(112 notices)
112 of 157 notices are Open (71%).Route not published15%(24 notices)
24 of 157 notices are Route not published (15%).Limited / restricted9%(14 notices)
14 of 157 notices are Limited / restricted (9%).Selective4%(7 notices)
7 of 157 notices are Selective (4%).
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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 70 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 158 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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| Dunston (Ship Repairs) Ltd | 8 | 2.3% | 2 | 8 | — |
| IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD | 7 | 2% | 1 | 8 | — |
| Dales Marine Services | 6 | 1.7% | 1 | 6 | — |
| NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH | 6 | 1.7% | 0 | 6 | — |
| UK DOCKS MARINE SERVICES LIMITED | 4 | 1.1% | 2 | 4 | — |
| APEM | 4 | 1.1% | 1 | 5 | — |
| RS Aqua Ltd | 4 | 1.1% | 1 | 4 | — |
| Ricardo AEA Ltd | 4 | 1.1% | 1 | 4 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 352 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 388 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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| Electronic Monitoring | G4S CARE AND JUSTICE SERVICES (UK) LIMITED | — | — | £65,490,000 † |
| DLEARN-Provision of Standardised Assessment & Reporting Platform & Related Services | National Foundation for Educational Research | — | — | £23,000,000 † |
| Scotland wide integration support service for forced migrants. | Scottish Refugee Council | — | — | £14,400,000 † |
| Interim Livestock Traceability & Health Services | Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society Ltd | — | — | £4,029,364 † |
| Social Security Independent Advocacy Service 2026-2028 | Advice Direct Scotland Limited | — | — | £3,236,790 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
368 of 462 contracts carry an end date, 195 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Financial administration and management of Scottish Government heat and energy efficiency grant and loan schemes | Energy Saving Trust | 30 Nov 2026 | £61,500,000 |
| Web Based and Proprietary Device Framework | XMA Limited | 13 Jan 2027 estimated | £100,000,000 ceiling |
| Marine Planning & Licensing Framework | ABPmer, Atkins Limited | 15 Jan 2027 | Not published |
| DLEARN - Whole Family Wellbeing Funding Year 3 and 4 Evaluation | IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD | 4 Feb 2027 estimated | £242,000 |
| Fish Stomach Content & Benthic Sample Analysis | Ocean Ecology | 7 Feb 2027 | £199,000 |
| DFP-Workplace Needs Assessments & Coaching for Neurodivergent Employees | OPM Consulting | 9 Feb 2027 estimated | £600,000 |
| Expanding the Portfolio of Compensatory Measures for Seabirds | ABPmer | 10 Feb 2027 estimated | £560,000 |
| Establishing and Managing a Trial Hub for Pre-processing of End-of-life Gear Waste from Fishing and Aquaculture Sectors | W & J Knox Ltd | 11 Feb 2027 | £488,880 |
Soonest 8 of 74 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 530 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts, the earlier contracts and past suppliers on a tender's competition panel, the buyer's decision figure and its award against estimate; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
- 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. 368 of 462 published contracts have an end date; 195 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.
- 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.