South Ayrshire Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Ayr·Central purchasing body on 53 of 60 notices
Find a Tender organisation id4854Websitesouth-ayrshire.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 20 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.
199 awarded tenders, 317 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.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| CE-176-23 - Funded Early Learning and Childcare Flexible Framework Agreement - Re-opening | 17 Aug 2029 | 1052d | — |
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
85 Health and social work services21 procedures · 35%50 Repair and maintenance services8 procedures · 13%71 Architectural, construction, engineering7 procedures · 12%45 Construction work6 procedures · 10%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting6 procedures · 10%66 Financial and insurance services5 procedures · 8%42 Industrial machinery3 procedures · 5%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet3 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 · 60 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 77% (46 notices)
- Framework 23% (14 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 50% (30 notices)
- Limited / restricted 42% (25 notices)
- Route not published 8% (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 20 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 60 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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| Softcat Plc | 4 | 2% | 2 | 4 | 30 Jun 2026 |
| ENABLE Scotland | 4 | 2% | 1 | 10 | 29 Nov 2024 |
| NEC Software Solutions LTD | 4 | 2% | 0 | 4 | 20 Mar 2024 |
| Wybone Limited | 4 | 2% | 0 | 4 | 30 Apr 2024 |
| Fortress Security Ltd | 4 | 2% | 0 | 4 | 6 Feb 2023 |
| Risk Management Partners Ltd | 3 | 1.5% | 2 | 3 | 10 Jun 2025 |
| Motus Commercials | 3 | 1.5% | 1 | 4 | 18 Dec 2024 |
| NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 3 | 1.5% | 1 | 3 | 30 Apr 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 199 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 317 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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| Property Damage & Business Interruption including Money and Specified Property Insured | PROTECTOR INSURANCE (UK) | — | — | £7,487,286 † |
| Light Commercial Vehicles and Cars (LCV’s and Cars) | Motus Commercials | — | — | £4,027,500 † |
| Heavy Goods Vehicles, Buses, and Refuse Collection Vehicles (HGV’s, Buses and RCVs) | Motus Commercials | — | — | £4,027,500 † |
| CE-49-26 - Measured Term Contract (MTC) for Planned, Reactive Servicing & Maintenance of Gas, Oil, Biomass, LPG Boilers inc Associated Parts | Richard Irvin FM Limited | — | — | £3,500,000 † |
| Provision of Casualty Insurance | Risk Management Partners Ltd | — | — | £3,480,340 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 231 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.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 76 award records on 51 procedures (58 to a single canonical supplier, 18 multi-supplier). 45 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 279 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”.