Suffolk County Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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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 31 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.
633 awarded tenders, 306 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
4 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supply and Installation of two (2) Fire Behaviour Training Containers for Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service | 13 Oct 2026 | 13d | £120,000 |
| Extension of existing Dynamic Purchasing System of Suffolk Adult and Community Learning Services | 31 Mar 2027 | 182d | £7,290,000 |
| Extension of existing Alternative Education Rolling Select List | 31 Jul 2027 | 304d | £60,000,000 |
| Extension of existing Dynamic Purchasing System for the Supply of Passenger Transport Services | 23 Feb 2029 | 877d | £600,000,000 |
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 services40 procedures · 30%80 Education and training services30 procedures · 23% · 2 open45 Construction work6 procedures · 5% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering6 procedures · 5%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet6 procedures · 5%34 Transport equipment and products4 procedures · 3% · 1 open48 Software package and information systems4 procedures · 3%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting4 procedures · 3%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 · 133 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% (120 notices)
- Framework 8% (10 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 2% (3 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 32% (43 notices)
- Route not published 32% (42 notices)
- Direct award 21% (28 notices)
- Limited / restricted 11% (15 notices)
- Selective 4% (5 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 31 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 14 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 133 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 14 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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| 405 cab co | 36 | 5.7% | 0 | 36 | 25 May 2022 |
| Unity travel ltd | 26 | 4.1% | 0 | 26 | 24 May 2022 |
| Phoenix Travel Contracts Limited | 25 | 3.9% | 0 | 25 | 25 May 2022 |
| First Stop Travel East Anglia LTD | 22 | 3.5% | 0 | 22 | 25 May 2022 |
| Star Cabs Ltd | 20 | 3.2% | 0 | 20 | 25 May 2022 |
| Cabs Smart | 18 | 2.8% | 0 | 18 | 25 May 2022 |
| Cliff Project Management | 16 | 2.5% | 0 | 16 | 25 May 2022 |
| Atlas Private Hire Ltd | 16 | 2.5% | 0 | 16 | 24 May 2022 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 14% of 633 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 306 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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| Integrated Drug & Alcohol Services | Turning Point Services Ltd | — | — | £59,760,009 † |
| Integrated Drug & Alcohol Services | Turning Point Services Ltd | — | — | £57,316,397 † |
| Integrated Drug and Alcohol Services | Turning Point (Services) Limited | — | — | £52,853,256 † |
| Integrated Sexual Health Services | Provide CiC | — | — | £47,875,274 † |
| Integrated Sexual Health Services | Provide CiC | — | — | £45,133,983 † |
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 · 80 of 751 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 42 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 789 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Suffolk county-wide support service for young carers aged up to 18 yearsHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2026 | £828,000 |
| Individual Placement Support (Substance Misuse)Health services | Awarded / complete | 29 Jul 2026 | £1,073,498 |
| Feel Good Suffolk AI and Digital Offer DevelopmentIT services: consulting | Planning | 27 Jul 2026 | £169,500 |
| Nicotine Replacement Therapy and Smoking Cessation Medication Postal Supply within SuffolkHealth services | Planning | 24 Jul 2026 | £400,000 |
| National Supervised Toothbrushing Programme Delivery within SuffolkCommunity health services | Open | 24 Jul 2026 | £226,927 |
| Toxicology Service for HM Coroner for SuffolkBacteriological analysis services | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2026 | £750,000 |
| Integrated Drug & Alcohol ServicesCommunity health services | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2026 | £52,853,256 |
| Suffolk Alternative Provision Tier One (Outreach) ServiceEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 20 Jul 2026 | £1,600,000 |
| Insurance ServicesFinancial and insurance services | Withdrawn | 9 Jul 2026 | £6,627,500 |
| Supported Housing DevelopmentDevelopment of residential real estate | Planning | 29 Jun 2026 | — |
| Provision of Suffolk Adult Learning Service | Awarded / complete | 24 Jun 2026 | — |
| Consultancy Services Transport East | Awarded / complete | 19 Jun 2026 | — |
| National Supervised Toothbrushing Programme DeliveryCommunity health services | Planned | 15 Jun 2026 | £226,927 |
| Catering Services for St Margarets CEVA Primary School and St Johns CEVA Primary SchoolSchool catering services | Awarded / complete | 11 Jun 2026 | £1,500,550 |
| Ofsted registered supported accommodation for 16/17-year-olds, including Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC)Health and social work services | Planned | 10 Jun 2026 | £40,000,000 |
| Suffolk Adult Learning Service Adult Skills FundEducation and training services | Withdrawn | 10 Jun 2026 | £11,200,000 |
| Construction & Building Services FrameworkConstruction work | Withdrawn | 5 Jun 2026 | £500,000,000 |
| Supply, Installation and Maintenance of 2 Fire Behaviour Training Containers for Suffolk Fire and Rescue ServiceFirefighting equipment installation work | Awarded / complete | 4 Jun 2026 | £100,000 |
| All Age Advocacy Support ServiceHealth and social work services | Planned | 3 Jun 2026 | £4,500,000 |
| Health Economics Consultancy | Awarded / complete | 20 May 2026 | — |
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 (£2.4bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 102 award records on 64 procedures (101 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). 41 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 13 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: 80 of 751 published contracts carry a period end; 42 end within 18 months, 35 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (17 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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