South Downs National Park Authority: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Other·ONS register: National-park-authority·Other public body·South East England·Midhurst
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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 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.
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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.
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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
90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental11 procedures · 24% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering10 procedures · 22%45 Construction work5 procedures · 11%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting3 procedures · 7%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 4%98 Other community, social and personal services2 procedures · 4%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting1 procedures · 2% · 1 open03 Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry1 procedures · 2%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 · 45 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 69% (31 notices)
- Framework 31% (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 60% (27 notices)
- Direct award 24% (11 notices)
- Route not published 11% (5 notices)
- Limited / restricted 2% (1 notices)
- Selective 2% (1 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 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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| Pell Frischmann Consultants Ltd | 2 | 5.3% | 2 | 2 | 16 Jun 2026 |
| SWT Ecology Services Ltd | 2 | 5.3% | 2 | 2 | 31 Mar 2026 |
| Ramboll UK Limited | 2 | 5.3% | 2 | 2 | 21 Apr 2026 |
| Edburton Contractors Ltd | 2 | 5.3% | 2 | 2 | 9 Jul 2026 |
| aAFD Services | 1 | 2.6% | 1 | 2 | 20 Mar 2026 |
| TARA SIGNS LIMITED | 1 | 2.6% | 1 | 1 | 22 Sept 2026 |
| WHITWAM LIMITED | 1 | 2.6% | 1 | 1 | 7 Aug 2026 |
| ARTIZANS OF WOOD LTD | 1 | 2.6% | 1 | 1 | 26 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.
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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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| Desk Side Support Services and Infrastructure as a Service | VM Hosts | — | — | £544,009 † |
| Ice Cream Concession in South Car Park Seven Sisters Country Park | Southern 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, Alfriston | Edburton Contractors Ltd | — | 2 mo | £209,203 † |
| Refurbishment and alterations to existing Foxhole Cottages at Seven Sisters Country Park, Exceat, Seaford, East Sussex BN5 4AD | AT HOME SERVICES LTD | — | 2 mo | £201,474 † |
| Provision of Boundary Signage Maintenance and Inspections | TARA SIGNS LIMITED | — | 5 yrs · up to 7 yrs | £142,974 † ≈ £29k/yr |
Contracts endingi
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.
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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
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.
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