South Downs National Park Authority: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: OtherONS register: National-park-authorityOther public bodySouth East EnglandMidhurst

Official UK PPONPJDL-9528-MNGZWebsitesouthdowns.gov.uk ↗

Open now1deadline not published
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months42+1300% vs prior 12 months (3)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Top-3 supplier share16%of 38 awarded procedures · 34 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.

38 awarded tenders, 34 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months95 within 6 months
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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.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£1.9mnet · on 13 of 37 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 80%
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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 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 · 45 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.

  • Contract 69% (31 notices)
  • Framework 31% (14 notices)
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.

  • Open 60% (27 notices)
  • Direct award 24% (11 notices)
  • Route not published 11% (5 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 2% (1 notices)
  • Selective 2% (1 notices)
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 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

7indicative · n=20% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.

Based on 3 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

19 daysmoderate · n=3
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 46 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

224 of 46 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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 5 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

9% below estimaterobust · n=5

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
Pell Frischmann Consultants Ltdframework/DPS on 225.3%2216 Jun 2026
SWT Ecology Services Ltdframework/DPS on 225.3%2231 Mar 2026
Ramboll UK Limitedframework/DPS on 125.3%2221 Apr 2026
Edburton Contractors Ltd25.3%229 Jul 2026
aAFD Services12.6%1220 Mar 2026
TARA SIGNS LIMITED12.6%1122 Sept 2026
WHITWAM LIMITED12.6%117 Aug 2026
ARTIZANS OF WOOD LTD12.6%1126 Aug 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 16% of 38 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 34 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 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.

£1.9mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 13 of 37 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 80%; a further 19 published a VAT-inclusive amount only (£1.5m inc. VAT, kept apart).
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£67k middle valuerobust · n=13Middle half £35k–£201k.
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
Desk Side Support Services and Infrastructure as a ServiceVM Hosts——£544,009 †
Ice Cream Concession in South Car Park Seven Sisters Country ParkSouthern Counties Crawley ltd—1.7 yrs · up to 3.7 yrs£400,000 †
≈ £240k/yr
Drainage and Surface Improvements to the South Downs Way National Trail, Kings Ride, AlfristonEdburton Contractors Ltd—2 mo£209,203 †
Refurbishment and alterations to existing Foxhole Cottages at Seven Sisters Country Park, Exceat, Seaford, East Sussex BN5 4ADAT HOME SERVICES LTD—2 mo£201,474 †
Provision of Boundary Signage Maintenance and InspectionsTARA SIGNS LIMITED—5 yrs · up to 7 yrs£142,974 †
≈ £29k/yr

Contracts ending
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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.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 37 of 39 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 48 of 48 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Addressing Barriers to Climate Action - Developing a values driven approach to accelerate climate action within the Protected LandscapesEnvironmental issues consultancy servicesOpen3 Sept 2026£48,000
Contract for the provision of surface repairs and improvements to the South Downs Way National Trail, Salt Hill, East Meon, HampshireSurface work for footpathsAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026£84,000
National Ecosystem Plan - PLP Climate Programme 2026-27Awarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
Provision of Boundary Signage Maintenance and InspectionsAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
Single Supplier Framework for Aboricultural Services for Centurion WayFrameworkAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
Provision of a Pole Barn at Lodge CopseAwarded / complete26 Aug 2026—
Portable audio conferencing solutionAwarded / complete7 Aug 2026—
Single Supplier Framework: Professional services for South Downs National Park Authority Heritage AssetsFrameworkArchitectural and related servicesOpen5 Aug 2026£192,000
Legal Services South Downs National Park AuthorityLegal servicesPlanning3 Aug 2026£500,000
The restoration of thirteen ponds within the Selborne Landscape Partnership and surrounding areaLandscaping work for green areasOpen3 Aug 2026£114,000
Provision of Corporate Financial Services for South Downs National Park AuthorityFinancial and insurance servicesOpen29 Jul 2026£2,750,000
Single supplier framework for the assessment of Viability Appraisals, Marketing, Needs and Impact Assessments for Planning (Development Management) purposes, for South Downs National Park AuthorityFrameworkOther servicesAwarded / complete21 Jul 2026£180,000
Framework for the provision of Ecological Consultation and Services, Centurion WayFrameworkEnvironmental monitoring for constructionAwarded / complete9 Jul 2026£312,000
Drainage and Surface Improvements to the South Downs Way National Trail, Kings Ride, AlfristonDrainage and surface worksAwarded / complete9 Jul 2026£276,000
Egrets Way Path Resurfacing Works (Piddinghoe-Southease), Piddinghoe, East SussexCycle path construction workOpen9 Jul 2026£60,000
Creation of beaver enclosure, Foley EstateAwarded / complete8 Jul 2026—
Building Cleaning, SDNPA Offices, Midhurst, West Sussex April 2026 - April 2029Office cleaning servicesAwarded / complete16 Jun 2026£182,400
Framework for Specialist Planning Advice: Landscape (Sussex area of the South Downs National Park)FrameworkEnvironmental planningAwarded / complete16 Jun 2026£87,120
Corporate Plan (2026-2031) External Monitoring and Evaluation South Downs National Park AuthorityCorporate environmental auditing servicesAwarded / complete9 Jun 2026£30,000
Single supplier framework for the Provision of Specialist Arboricultural advice for South Downs National Park Authority PlanningFrameworkTechnical analysis or consultancy servicesAwarded / complete21 May 2026£65,000

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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 (£5.7m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 37 award records on 36 procedures (37 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 13 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 19 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
  • 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: 37 of 39 published contracts carry a period end; 9 end within 18 months, 5 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (2 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-130462GB-FTS-31752

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PJDL-9528-MNGZ