The City of Edinburgh Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Nationwide (UK)·Edinburgh·Central purchasing body on 6 of 106 notices
Find a Tender organisation id346Websiteedinburgh.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 20 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.
183 awarded tenders, 599 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
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Income Maximisation, Welfare and Debt Advice Service | 9 Oct 2026 | 9d | — |
| Community Harm Reduction and Recovery Initiation Services – Core Locality Hub Services | 21 Oct 2026 | 21d | £16,517,844 |
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 services35 procedures · 33% · 2 open45 Construction work14 procedures · 13%50 Repair and maintenance services14 procedures · 13%71 Architectural, construction, engineering14 procedures · 13%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting9 procedures · 8%98 Other community, social and personal services8 procedures · 8% · 2 open90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental7 procedures · 7%80 Education and training services6 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 · 106 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% (73 notices)
- Framework 30% (32 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 1% (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 40% (42 notices)
- Limited / restricted 28% (30 notices)
- Selective 16% (17 notices)
- Route not published 16% (17 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 20 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 107 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 9 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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| Cyrenians | 7 | 3.8% | 4 | 9 | 9 Apr 2026 |
| Barnardo's | 6 | 3.3% | 1 | 15 | 9 Jul 2025 |
| Action for Children | 5 | 2.7% | 3 | 7 | 15 Sept 2026 |
| Perfect Clean Edinburgh Ltd | 5 | 2.7% | 2 | 5 | 25 Aug 2025 |
| Dean and Cauvin Young People's Trust | 4 | 2.2% | 2 | 10 | 9 Jul 2025 |
| Care Visions | 4 | 2.2% | 1 | 8 | 6 Mar 2025 |
| Action for Children | 4 | 2.2% | 1 | 5 | 6 Mar 2025 |
| Apeiron Stays Limited | 3 | 1.6% | 3 | 3 | 9 Jan 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 9% of 183 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 599 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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| Decriminalised Parking and Traffic Enforcement Services | MARSTON (HOLDINGS) LIMITED | — | — | £150,000,000 † |
| Development Partner for Phase 1 (with potential of future phases) of Granton Waterfront, Edinburgh | Cruden Homes Ltd | — | — | £126,542,550 † |
| CT1061_1a - Temporary Accommodation Services | Apart Hotels Worldwide Ltd | — | — | £7,194,150 † |
| Traffic Equipment Maintenance and Ancillary Support Services | Yunex Limited | — | — | £6,750,000 † |
| Residential Intermediate Care for people with complex needs including physical healthcare needs and homelessness/ risk of homelessness | Simon Community Scotland | — | — | £6,745,744 † |
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 · 6 of 379 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Contractors Plant (own plant and hired plant) | Risk Management Partners Ltd | 31 Oct 2027 | £92,789 |
| Travel | Risk Management Partners Ltd | 31 Oct 2027 | £150,845 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 296 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Traffic Equipment Maintenance and Ancillary Support ServicesInstallation of traffic lights | Awarded / complete | 19 Feb 2026 | £6,750,000 |
| Property InsuranceDamage or loss insurance services | Awarded / complete | 15 Jan 2026 | £4,400,000 |
| Domestic Repair & Maintenance Framework AgreementConstruction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses | Open | 12 Jan 2026 | £50,000,000 |
| CT1542 Sheriff Officer ServicesBailiff services | Awarded / complete | 9 Jan 2026 | — |
| CT2907 Re-Opening of: CT0627 Category 2a - Temporary Accommodation & Associated Services Flexible Purchasing System Jan 2026Social work and related services | Open | 9 Jan 2026 | £1,500,000 |
| Portobello Swim Centre UpgradeRefurbishment of run-down buildings | Planned | 5 Jan 2026 | £7,500,000 |
| Wellbeing & Positive Relationship Support Including Stress and Distress Management.Specialist training services | Awarded / complete | 29 Dec 2025 | — |
| Operation and Maintenance of Communal Heating Systems – Western Villages & Granton D1Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations | Awarded / complete | 18 Dec 2025 | — |
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 (£756m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 126 award records on 72 procedures (68 to a single canonical supplier, 58 multi-supplier). 51 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: 6 of 379 published contracts carry a period end; 2 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (8 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-346