Shetland Islands Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Local-authority-districtLocal authorityScotlandLerwick, ShetlandCentral purchasing body on 7 of 20 notices

Find a Tender organisation id71681Websiteshetland.gov.uk ↗

What they buy
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 20 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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  • Contract85%(17 notices)
    17 of 20 notices are Contract (85%).
  • Framework15%(3 notices)
    3 of 20 notices are Framework (15%).
Procedure route
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  • Open55%(11 notices)
    11 of 20 notices are Open (55%).
  • Limited / restricted30%(6 notices)
    6 of 20 notices are Limited / restricted (30%).
  • Selective15%(3 notices)
    3 of 20 notices are Selective (15%).
Typical bids per lot
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Based on 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

2robust · n=633.3% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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Based on 20 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

113 of 20 notices amended

Who wins here
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All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Shetland Grasscutting (a trading name of Grounds Maintenance Solutions Ltd)25.7%22—
HNP Engineers (Lerwick) Ltd25.7%12—
Malakoff Limitedframework/DPS on 225.7%02—
K and k transportframework/DPS on 112.9%13—
Wastbus Ltdframework/DPS on 112.9%13—
Martin's Car Hireframework/DPS on 112.9%13—
Gary H Johnson T/A Johnson transportframework/DPS on 112.9%13—
J & K Scollayframework/DPS on 112.9%13—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 17% of 35 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 64 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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£15mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 12 of 12 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 88%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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£364k middle valuerobust · n=12Middle half £205k–£962k.

Contracts ending
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34 of 41 contracts carry an end date, 26 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Soonest 9 of 10 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 51 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Design & Build of New Passenger Vesselcentral purchasing bodyFerry boatsCancelled25 Sept 2026£35,100,000
Provision of Marine Electrical and Mechanical ServicesFrameworkMechanical and electrical engineering servicesOpen10 Sept 2026—
Gremista Landfill, Lerwick, Shetland - Phase 3 ConstructionConstruction workOpen14 Aug 2026—
Janet Courtney Hostel Refurbishment, Lerwick, Shetland - Architectural Services and Principal DesignerArchitectural and related servicesAwarded / complete15 Jun 2026—
Provision of Administrative Services for the Delivery of Adaptations to Private Sector Housescentral purchasing bodyAdministrative housing servicesAwarded / complete31 Mar 2026—
GCA Call off RM1557.14 Lot 2 Health & Safety Compliance Softwarecentral purchasing bodySoftware package and information systemsAwarded / complete31 Mar 2026—
Multi-Supplier Framework Agreement for the Provision of Passenger TransportFramework3 lotsHire of buses and coaches with driverAwarded / complete30 Mar 2026—
Janet Courtney Hostel Refurbishment, Lerwick, Shetland - Architectural Services and Principal DesignerArchitectural and related servicesCancelled30 Mar 2026—
PROVISION OF LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING (LiDAR) AND AERIAL DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY SURVEYING AND DATA (LiDAR MAPPING)central purchasing bodyAerial mapping servicesAwarded / complete17 Mar 2026£322,000
CCS Call Off RM6098 Lot 3 Microsoft Licensescentral purchasing bodyLicense management software packageAwarded / complete12 Mar 2026—
Provision of Financial Health and Fuel Poverty Advice Servicecentral purchasing bodyCommunity health servicesAwarded / complete12 Mar 2026—
Supply and Delivery of Marine Grade Gas Oil to Shetland Islands CouncilFrameworkFuel oilsAwarded / complete30 Jan 2026—
Property Asset Valuation ServicesProperty management services of real estate on a fee or contract basisAwarded / complete18 Nov 2025—
Engineering Inspection ServicesIndustrial inspection servicesCancelled25 Jul 2025—
CCS Call Off RM1557.14 Lot 2 Cloud Software - ITSM Softwarecentral purchasing bodySoftware package and information systemsAwarded / complete24 Jul 2025—
Supply of Vesselcentral purchasing bodyFerry boatsCancelled15 Jul 2025£5,400,000
B9082 Gutcher to Cullivoe Road Improvement, Yell, ShetlandRoad construction worksAwarded / complete26 Jun 2025£7,445,286
Supply of Vesselcentral purchasing bodyFerry boatsAwarded / complete10 Jun 2025£5,700,000
Anderson High School Halls of Residence, Lerwick, Shetland - Hard Facilities Management ServicesBuilding and facilities management servicesAwarded / complete6 Jun 2025—
Supply of 2 (two) Engine Room Propulsion Engines MV GeiraEngine partsAwarded / complete27 May 2025—

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About this data
  • 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. 34 of 41 published contracts have an end date; 26 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.
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.