South Lanarkshire Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Hamilton·Central purchasing body on 9 of 39 notices
Find a Tender organisation id1037Websitesouthlanarkshire.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 16 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.
54 awarded tenders, 176 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
3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Employability Services Procured Service Arrangement - Phase 4 | 3 Dec 2026 | 64d | £4,000,000 |
| Adult Supported Living - Procured Service Arrangement (PSA) Phase 13 | 5 Mar 2027 | 156d | £225,000,000 |
| Early Learning and Childcare - South Lanarkshire Council Procured Service Arrangement | 10 Mar 2027 | 161d | £143,500,000 |
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 services12 procedures · 31% · 1 open80 Education and training services9 procedures · 23% · 2 open90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental5 procedures · 13%44 Construction structures and materials4 procedures · 10%50 Repair and maintenance services3 procedures · 8%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet3 procedures · 8%14 Mining, basic metals and related products2 procedures · 5%43 Mining, quarrying and construction machinery2 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 · 39 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 90% (35 notices)
- Framework 8% (3 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 3% (1 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 67% (26 notices)
- Route not published 26% (10 notices)
- Selective 5% (2 notices)
- Limited / restricted 3% (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 16 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 39 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 6 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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| Dalkia Scotshield Limited | 3 | 5.6% | 0 | 3 | 28 Apr 2023 |
| Merged Education | 2 | 3.7% | 2 | 4 | 2 Sept 2026 |
| New College Lanarkshire | 2 | 3.7% | 2 | 4 | 2 Sept 2026 |
| ENABLE Scotland | 2 | 3.7% | 2 | 3 | 2 Sept 2026 |
| Tenants Information Service | 2 | 3.7% | 2 | 2 | 15 Apr 2025 |
| Action for Children | 2 | 3.7% | 1 | 2 | 15 Jan 2025 |
| John McGeady Ltd | 2 | 3.7% | 0 | 5 | 30 Jul 2024 |
| Biffa Waste Services Ltd | 2 | 3.7% | 0 | 2 | 22 Jan 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 9% of 54 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 176 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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| Early Learning and Childcare - South Lanarkshire Council Procured Service Arrangement | ACE Place Ltd | — | — | £143,500,000 † |
| SLC - Education Digital Futures - Education ICT Managed Service | RM Education Ltd | — | — | £53,500,000 † |
| Intensive Family Support Service in South Lanarkshire | Action for Children | — | — | £633,464 † |
| The Hire and Maintenance of Industrial Power Washers | Rhinowash Ltd | — | — | £531,863 † |
| Support for First Stop Emergency Access Accommodation | Right There | — | — | £513,779 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 116 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 (£3.3bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 44 award records on 12 procedures (18 to a single canonical supplier, 26 multi-supplier). 8 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: 0 of 105 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 (9 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-1037