Scottish Natural Heritage: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ScotlandInvernessCentral purchasing body on 10 of 13 notices

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Open now1next deadline 6 Nov 2026
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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.

Notices, last 12 months6-14% vs prior 12 months (7)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot7.50% single-bid · 4 bid reports
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share22%of 27 awarded procedures · 79 suppliers
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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.

27 awarded tenders, 79 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£603knet · on 5 of 5 published values · top 5 = 100%
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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

1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Peatland ACTION FW02 Field Ecologists FrameworkFrameworkcentral purchasing body6 Nov 202616d£450,000

What they buy
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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

How they buy
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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

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract77%(10 notices)
    10 of 13 notices are Contract (77%).
  • Framework23%(3 notices)
    3 of 13 notices are Framework (23%).
Procedure route
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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.

  • Open77%(10 notices)
    10 of 13 notices are Open (77%).
  • Limited / restricted8%(1 notices)
    1 of 13 notices are Limited / restricted (8%).
  • Selective8%(1 notices)
    1 of 13 notices are Selective (8%).
  • Route not published8%(1 notices)
    1 of 13 notices are Route not published (8%).
Typical bids per lot
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

7.5moderate · n=40% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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.

Last 24 months.

19 of 13 notices amended

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
AECOM LIMITED27.4%12—
Jeremy Benn Associates Ltdframework/DPS on 127.4%12—
Informed Solutions Ltd.27.4%12—
SAVILLS (UK) LIMITED27.4%02—
EOLAS Insight Ltd27.4%02—
HCS Water Treatment Ltd13.7%11—
Peachy Mondays13.7%11—
Innaxys Ltd13.7%11—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 22% of 27 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 79 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£603kSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 5 of 5 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 100%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£74k middle valuerobust · n=5Middle half £62k–£195k.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
PP1303 (x-ref. PP1380) - CivTech Challenge 8.5 - Hosting, Support, Maintenance & Call-Off ContractInformed Solutions Ltd.——£236,800 †
Digital Asset Management SystemInnaxys Ltd——£194,670 †
UKHab Survey & Natural Capital Assessment of NHS EstateAECOM LIMITED——£73,500 †
Water hygiene services (incl. legionella control) for NatureScot offices & buildingsHCS Water Treatment Ltd——£62,256 †
People Engagement SurveysPeachy Mondays——£36,000 †

Recent procedures

Latest 37 of 37 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
CivTech 8.5 - Help NatureScot flexibly manage its understanding of the state of protected areas by making best use of evidencecentral purchasing bodyEnvironmental managementAwarded / complete13 Feb 2024£650,000
Landscape scale natural capital tool for Scotlsndcentral purchasing bodyApplication service providersAwarded / complete9 Jan 2024—
Species on the Edge Monitoring and Evaluationcentral purchasing bodyDevelopment consultancy servicesAwarded / complete17 Nov 2023£125,000
How can technology help us detect beaver burrows in the wild and assess their associated risks to public and private interests?central purchasing bodyEnvironmental protectionAwarded / complete2 Jun 2023—
Supply of weatherproof and corporate clothingFrameworkcentral purchasing body2 lotsCorporate clothingAwarded / complete9 Mar 2023—
Scotland’s People and Nature Survey (SPANS)central purchasing bodyResearch servicesAwarded / complete14 Dec 2022—
Servicing/maintenance of alarm, cctv & door access systemscentral purchasing bodyRepair and maintenance servicesAwarded / complete23 Nov 2022—
Supply of weatherproof and corporate clothingFrameworkcentral purchasing body2 lotsCorporate clothingOpen27 Jul 2022£30,000
Servicing/maintenance of alarm, cctv & door access systemscentral purchasing bodyRepair and maintenance servicesOpen18 Jul 2022—
Framework agreement for the provision of landscape adviceFrameworkcentral purchasing bodyLandscape protection servicesAwarded / complete16 Jun 2022—
How can technology help us detect beaver burrows in the wild and assess their associated risks to public and private interests?central purchasing bodyEnvironmental protectionOpen31 May 2022£650,000
Replacement battery inverter system, Isle of Rumcentral purchasing bodyInvertersAwarded / complete22 Dec 2021—
Framework agreement for the delivery of beaver advice and management interventionsFrameworkcentral purchasing bodyWildlife preservation servicesAwarded / complete10 Jun 2021£150,000
CivTech 5 Challenge 2 - How can we use technology to estimate herbivore populations and their impacts across Scotland in a greener and more cost effective way?central purchasing bodyBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete25 May 2021—
CivTech 5 Challenge 3 - How can technology help farmers improve the environment under their stewardship, and track that improvement?central purchasing bodyActivity specific environmental auditing servicesAwarded / complete25 May 2021—
Penetration testing and security consultancycentral purchasing bodyInformation technology servicesAwarded / complete23 Apr 2021£150,000

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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. 2 of 47 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.