The Highland Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Inverness·Central purchasing body on 11 of 44 notices
Find a Tender organisation id125201Websitehighland.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 21 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.
62 awarded tenders, 191 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.
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 services13 procedures · 30%45 Construction work7 procedures · 16%60 Transport services (except waste transport)4 procedures · 9%71 Architectural, construction, engineering4 procedures · 9%42 Industrial machinery3 procedures · 7%70 Real estate services3 procedures · 7%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting3 procedures · 7%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental3 procedures · 7%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 · 44 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 80% (35 notices)
- Framework 18% (8 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 2% (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 66% (29 notices)
- Limited / restricted 18% (8 notices)
- Route not published 9% (4 notices)
- Selective 7% (3 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 21 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 44 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 8 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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| Bowmans (Locheil Logistics Ltd) | 3 | 4.8% | 3 | 13 | 15 Oct 2025 |
| New Start Highland | 3 | 4.8% | 3 | 4 | 12 Aug 2026 |
| CrossReach (the operating name for The Church of Scotland Social Care Council) | 3 | 4.8% | 2 | 13 | 7 Aug 2026 |
| Richard Irvin FM Limited | 2 | 3.2% | 2 | 5 | 17 Aug 2026 |
| Salvation Army Trustee Company(The) | 2 | 3.2% | 2 | 2 | 12 Aug 2026 |
| Everwarm Ltd | 2 | 3.2% | 1 | 31 | 17 Sept 2025 |
| Right There | 2 | 3.2% | 1 | 18 | 8 Jun 2026 |
| Bancon Construction Limited | 2 | 3.2% | 1 | 4 | 17 Sept 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 62 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 191 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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| Corran Ferry Infrastructure Improvement Scheme (CFIIS) | CHARLES BRAND GROUP LIMITED | — | — | £26,143,625 † |
| Longman, Invergordon, Seater, Granish Waste Haulage Services | A.W Jenkinson Transport Ltd | — | — | £22,885,897 † |
| Refurbishment of Bught Stadium & New Home of Shinty Pavilion, Inverness | Clark Contracts Ltd | — | — | £8,105,074 † |
| North Scotland/Wick John O’Groats Airport PSO Scheduled Flight Services | Air Charter Scotland Ltd | — | — | £7,956,000 † |
| DIHD24007 - Meiklefield Ph2 - New Build Development. | Morrison Construction | — | — | £6,064,865 † |
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 · 10 of 166 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Renewable Heat Services-2023-SER051 | Viridor Dunbar Waste Services Limited | 31 Dec 2027 | £58,000,000 |
| Renewable Heat Services-2023-SER051 | Alternative Heat Ltd. | 31 Dec 2027 | £28,701,093 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 90 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Holistic Support Services for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) in HighlandHealth and social work services | Planned | 15 Sept 2026 | £3,600,000 |
| DIHD24007 - Meiklefield Ph2 - New Build Development.Construction work | Awarded / complete | 9 Sept 2026 | — |
| Intensive Support - Children / Young People (Highland)Health and social work services | Cancelled | 2 Sept 2026 | £909,316 |
| North Scotland/Wick John O’Groats Airport PSO Scheduled Flight ServicesAir transport services | Awarded / complete | 2 Sept 2026 | — |
| Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) Inspections & Related Works – 2025Repair and maintenance services of electrical building installations | Awarded / complete | 17 Aug 2026 | £7,800,000 |
| Framework Agreement for the Provision of Employability ServicesEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 12 Aug 2026 | — |
| Refugee_Resettlement_Support_Service-Framework-2026Housing services | Awarded / complete | 7 Aug 2026 | £613,000 |
| Independent Supported Living - Onsite (Inverness)Health and social work services | Awarded / complete | 23 Jul 2026 | £1,088,000 |
| Justice Outreach Services (Highland) FrameworkHealth and social work services | Open | 3 Jul 2026 | £900,000 |
| Female Domestic Abuse Outreach Services - Inverness and SouthHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 15 Jun 2026 | £390,000 |
| Intensive Support - Children / Young People (Highland)Health and social work services | Awarded / complete | 8 Jun 2026 | £909,316 |
| CAL21012 Broadford Primary School - New SchoolConstruction work | Awarded / complete | 27 Apr 2026 | — |
| 17 New Housing Units, Dores, InvernessConstruction work | Awarded / complete | 1 Apr 2026 | — |
| Managed Print ServiceOffice and computing machinery | Awarded / complete | 12 Mar 2026 | — |
| Provision of Cromarty-Nigg Ferry ServiceFerry transport services | Open | 4 Feb 2026 | £300,000 |
| Housing Development at Torvean North, Inverness (Phase 1A including external works)Construction work | Cancelled | 27 Jan 2026 | — |
| Provision of 211 Bell type Banks for collection of Glass and transportation to processorRefuse recycling services | Awarded / complete | 23 Jan 2026 | — |
| Corran Ferry Infrastructure Improvement Scheme (CFIIS)Construction work | Awarded / complete | 16 Jan 2026 | £27,000,000 |
| Provision of Treasury Management Advisory ServicesTreasury services | Awarded / complete | 6 Jan 2026 | £88,000 |
| Female Domestic Abuse Outreach Services – Highland West – Lochaber AreaHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 23 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 (£93m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 66 award records on 31 procedures (44 to a single canonical supplier, 22 multi-supplier). 34 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: 10 of 166 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 (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-125201