Shetland Islands Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Lerwick, Shetland·Central purchasing body on 15 of 28 notices
Find a Tender organisation id71681Websiteshetland.gov.uk ↗
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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 13 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.
32 awarded tenders, 62 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
71 Architectural, construction, engineering6 procedures · 21%34 Transport equipment and products4 procedures · 14%45 Construction work4 procedures · 14%48 Software package and information systems3 procedures · 11%77 Agricultural, forestry, horticultural services2 procedures · 7%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 7%09 Petroleum, coal, oil and gas1 procedures · 4%42 Industrial machinery1 procedures · 4%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 · 28 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 79% (22 notices)
- Framework 21% (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 61% (17 notices)
- Limited / restricted 21% (6 notices)
- Selective 18% (5 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 13 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 28 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 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| Shetland Grasscutting (a trading name of Grounds Maintenance Solutions Ltd) | 2 | 6.3% | 2 | 2 | 14 Apr 2025 |
| HNP Engineers (Lerwick) Ltd | 2 | 6.3% | 1 | 2 | 27 May 2025 |
| K and k transport | 1 | 3.1% | 1 | 3 | 30 Mar 2026 |
| Wastbus Ltd | 1 | 3.1% | 1 | 3 | 30 Mar 2026 |
| Martin's Car Hire | 1 | 3.1% | 1 | 3 | 30 Mar 2026 |
| Gary H Johnson T/A Johnson transport | 1 | 3.1% | 1 | 3 | 30 Mar 2026 |
| J & K Scollay | 1 | 3.1% | 1 | 3 | 30 Mar 2026 |
| ANITA KELLY | 1 | 3.1% | 1 | 3 | 30 Mar 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 16% of 32 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 62 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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| Lot 3 - Grutness & Fair Isle Combined | BAM Nuttall Limited | — | — | £31,496,940 † |
| B9082 Gutcher to Cullivoe Road Improvement, Yell, Shetland | C W Johnson Plant Ltd | — | — | £8,915,949 † |
| Supply of Vessel | Parkol Marine Engineering Ltd. | — | — | £5,646,700 † |
| Consultancy Service for Knab Site Redevelopment Infrastructure and Public Realm Design | Arup | — | — | £895,817 † |
| Provision of Administrative Services for the Delivery of Adaptations to Private Sector Houses | Hjaltland Housing Association Ltd | — | — | £758,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 46 of 46 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£68m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 25 award records on 22 procedures (22 to a single canonical supplier, 3 multi-supplier). 17 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: 2 of 38 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 (6 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-FTS-71681