Stirling Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Stirling·Central purchasing body on 8 of 22 notices
Find a Tender organisation id131552Websitestirling.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 7 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.
40 awarded tenders, 221 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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| EV Infrastructure Back Office | 15 Oct 2026 | 15d | £315,000 |
| SC2223-0184 DPS for School and Other Transport (New or Re-Apply) | 11 Aug 2027 | 315d | — |
| DPS for Schools and Other Transport (Taxi & Private Hire Car) New or Re-apply | 13 Aug 2029 | 1048d | — |
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 services9 procedures · 41%98 Other community, social and personal services5 procedures · 23%50 Repair and maintenance services4 procedures · 18% · 1 open80 Education and training services4 procedures · 18%44 Construction structures and materials3 procedures · 14%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting3 procedures · 14%34 Transport equipment and products2 procedures · 9% · 1 open60 Transport services (except waste transport)2 procedures · 9% · 1 openHow 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 · 22 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 59% (13 notices)
- Framework 36% (8 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 5% (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 77% (17 notices)
- Route not published 14% (3 notices)
- Limited / restricted 5% (1 notices)
- Selective 5% (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 7 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 22 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 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| Includem | 3 | 7.5% | 2 | 5 | 25 Sept 2025 |
| Hillhouse Quarry Group Ltd | 3 | 7.5% | 1 | 5 | 5 Nov 2024 |
| Kingshouse Travel Ltd | 3 | 7.5% | 1 | 4 | 14 Nov 2024 |
| Hunters Executive Coaches ltd | 3 | 7.5% | 1 | 3 | 15 Jul 2025 |
| Forth Valley College | 2 | 5% | 2 | 7 | 10 Jul 2026 |
| New College Lanarkshire | 2 | 5% | 2 | 7 | 10 Jul 2026 |
| Child Central Training Limited | 2 | 5% | 2 | 4 | 10 Jul 2026 |
| Stirlingshire Voluntary Enterprise Ltd | 2 | 5% | 2 | 4 | 25 Sept 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 23% of 40 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 221 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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| Supply, Installation and Maintenance of Solar PV, Thermal Panels and Battery Storage for Social Housing and Council Buildings | FES Support Services Ltd | — | — | £11,000,000 † |
| Independent Advocacy Services for Adults | Forth Valley Advocacy | — | — | £1,959,812 † |
| Carers Centre | Stirling Carers Centre | — | — | £1,678,936 † |
| Advertising on Bus Shelters | Bauer Media Outdoor Limited UK | — | — | £1,298,000 † |
| Park and Ride Bus Services - Stirling City | Hunters Executive Coaches ltd | — | — | £896,100 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 54 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Stirling City Park and Rid Services (P1 & P2)Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver | Awarded / complete | 24 Mar 2022 | — |
| Development of Walk Cycle Live Stirling (WCLS) – ConstructionCycle path construction work | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2022 | — |
| Social Inclusion activities - Short Breaks (Children)Daycare services for handicapped children and young people | Awarded / complete | 14 Jan 2022 | — |
| Care and Support services - Short Breaks (Children)Daycare services for handicapped children and young people | Awarded / complete | 14 Jan 2022 | — |
| Provision of Independent AdvocacyOther community | Awarded / complete | 16 Nov 2021 | — |
| Fixed Wire TestingTechnical inspection and testing services | Awarded / complete | 26 Oct 2021 | — |
| Framework for Painter and Decorating term ContractPainting work of buildings | Awarded / complete | 4 Oct 2021 | — |
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 (£3.0m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 32 award records on 15 procedures (10 to a single canonical supplier, 22 multi-supplier). 9 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 72 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 (7 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-131552