South Oxfordshire District Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Official UK PPONPRWZ-2743-VQTG
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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 8 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.
26 awarded tenders, 51 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.
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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| Refurbishment of Ground Floor Toilets & Cloakroom at Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot | 4 Nov 2026 | 35d | £74,000 |
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
45 Construction work15 procedures · 45% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering8 procedures · 24%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting4 procedures · 12%66 Financial and insurance services3 procedures · 9%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental3 procedures · 9%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting3 procedures · 9%34 Transport equipment and products2 procedures · 6%70 Real estate services2 procedures · 6%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 · 33 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 100% (33 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 79% (26 notices)
- Limited / restricted 9% (3 notices)
- Route not published 6% (2 notices)
- Direct award 3% (1 notices)
- Selective 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 8 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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 6 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 33 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 13 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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| Capita Business Services Ltd | 2 | 7.7% | 2 | 2 | 31 Jul 2025 |
| Oxford Direct Services Trading Limited | 2 | 7.7% | 2 | 2 | 21 May 2026 |
| Biffa Waste Services Ltd | 1 | 3.8% | 1 | 2 | 13 Nov 2025 |
| AECOM LIMITED | 1 | 3.8% | 1 | 1 | 27 Mar 2026 |
| LOWE AND OLIVER LIMITED | 1 | 3.8% | 1 | 1 | 25 Aug 2026 |
| ELLIOTT TRAINING LIMITED | 1 | 3.8% | 1 | 1 | 11 Aug 2026 |
| CIVICA UK LIMITED | 1 | 3.8% | 1 | 1 | 29 Aug 2025 |
| Polka Dot Pantomimes | 1 | 3.8% | 1 | 1 | 14 Jul 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 26 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 51 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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| Contract for Waste Collection and Street Cleaning | Biffa Waste Services Ltd | — | — | £259,648,000 † |
| 5 Councils Corporate Services Project | Capita Business Services Ltd | — | — | £24,736,269 † |
| 5 Councils Corporate Services Project | Capita Business Services Ltd | — | — | £24,736,269 † |
| Contract for Waste Collection and Street Cleaning | Biffa Waste Services Ltd | — | — | £16,228,000 † |
| Design & Construction of 9No. Residential Units to PassivHaus Standards | Oxford Direct Services Trading Limited | 21 May 2026 | 10 mo | £3,815,400 |
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 · 14 of 32 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Heat network techno-economic feasibility study for Culham | AECOM LIMITED | 31 Dec 2026 | £60,453 |
| Remedial Repair Works to Eastern Boundary Wall at St Mary's Closed Churchyard, Henley | D R Jones Yeovil Ltd | 31 Dec 2026 | £53,990 |
| CONTRACT FOR THE PROVISION OF BUILDING SURVEY SERVICES | VERULAM PROPERTY SURVEYORS LLP | 19 Aug 2027 | £61,200 |
| Decision Management System - Agreement for licensing and support | CIVICA UK LIMITED | 22 Aug 2027 | £38,710 |
| Coaching Training | Agile Business Consultancy | 31 Aug 2027 | £46,100 |
| IT Training Provision Procuremen | ELLIOTT TRAINING LIMITED | 31 Aug 2027 | £38,800 |
| Provision of a Christmas Pantomime at Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot | Polka Dot Pantomimes | 31 Jan 2028 | £232,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 42 of 42 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 (£209m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 20 award records on 19 procedures (20 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 16 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: 14 of 32 published contracts carry a period end; 7 end within 18 months, 2 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (6 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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