Scottish Prison Service: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Scotland·Edinburgh
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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 14 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.
88 awarded tenders, 95 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.
Open notices
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| SPS-02357 Temporary Maintenance Staff | 29 Oct 2026 | 8d | — |
| SPS-02319 Prisoner Records 2 (PR2) – Technical Change | 2 Nov 2026 | 12d | — |
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, internet7 procedures · 18% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services7 procedures · 18%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances5 procedures · 13%71 Architectural, construction, engineering5 procedures · 13%44 Construction structures and materials3 procedures · 8%85 Health and social work services3 procedures · 8%48 Software package and information systems2 procedures · 5% · 1 open19 Leather and textile fabrics2 procedures · 5%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 · 40 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.
Contract95%(38 notices)
38 of 40 notices are Contract (95%).Framework5%(2 notices)
2 of 40 notices are Framework (5%).
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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.
Open60%(24 notices)
24 of 40 notices are Open (60%).Route not published25%(10 notices)
10 of 40 notices are Route not published (25%).Limited / restricted13%(5 notices)
5 of 40 notices are Limited / restricted (13%).Selective3%(1 notices)
1 of 40 notices are Selective (3%).
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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 14 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 40 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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| Unilink Software | 4 | 4.5% | 0 | 6 | — |
| Optima Health UK Ltd | 3 | 3.4% | 0 | 3 | — |
| Securitas Technology Ltd | 2 | 2.3% | 1 | 4 | — |
| Hanex UK Limited | 2 | 2.3% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Pointer Ltd | 2 | 2.3% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Charles Fellows Supplies Limited | 2 | 2.3% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Kinetic Youth | 2 | 2.3% | 0 | 3 | — |
| COMPANY for ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION (CEIA) LIMITED | 2 | 2.3% | 0 | 3 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 10% of 88 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 95 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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| SPS-02206 Justice Partners Escort and Court Custody (Scotland) | Mitie Care & Custody Ltd | — | — | £415,353,498 † |
| SPS-02214 Provision of Mattresses | Carpenter Ltd | — | — | £2,231,652 † |
| SPS-02207 Vehicle Leasing Services (CCS Framework RM6268 - Lot 1) | Athlon Mobility Services UK Ltd | — | — | £2,108,039 † |
| SPS-02221 Maintenance of Boilers, Burners, Heating, Ancillary Equipment and Gas Infrastructure | James Ramsay (Glasgow) Ltd | — | — | £1,166,166 † |
| SPS-02316 Provision of Compact Laminate Sheets for Cell Furniture | Hanex UK Limited | — | — | £976,400 † |
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 · 6 of 130 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| SPS-02106 Maintenance of Lifts and Stairlifts | TK Elevator UK Limited | 31 Mar 2027 | £202,297 |
| 01962 Intervention for Trauma, Bereavement and Loss | Barnardo's | 31 May 2027 | £390,000 |
| SPS-02321 Provision and Maintenance of In-Cell TVs | Cello Electronics (UK) Ltd | 14 Mar 2028 | £540,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 132 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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| SPS-02278 ServiceNow ITSM Support and DevelopmentIT services: consulting | Planned | 8 May 2025 | — |
| SPS-01892 – Provision of IronmongeryIronmongery | Planned | 6 May 2025 | — |
| SPS-02272 Provision of Bedding ItemsBeds and bedding and specialist soft furnishings | Planned | 2 Apr 2025 | — |
| SPS-02119 Maintenance of CCTV and PIDSRepair and maintenance services of security equipment | Awarded / complete | 26 Mar 2025 | — |
| SPS-02193 Occupational Health Services (OHS) Framework AgreementHealth services | Awarded / complete | 24 Mar 2025 | — |
| SPS-02053 Personal Development & LearningAdministrative educational services | Awarded / complete | 10 Mar 2025 | — |
| SPS-02002 Framework Agreement for the Provision of a Quantity Surveying and Project Management ServiceProject and design preparation | Awarded / complete | 5 Mar 2025 | — |
| SPS-02116 - Water Quality Management Services including LegionellosisWater tanks | Awarded / complete | 24 Jan 2025 | — |
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. 6 of 130 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.