The Highland Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Local-authority-districtLocal authorityScotlandInvernessCentral purchasing body on 11 of 44 notices

Find a Tender organisation id125201Websitehighland.gov.uk ↗

Open notices

3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Provision of West Ardnamurchan Refuse & Recycling Collectionscentral purchasing body16 Nov 202632h—
Highland HydrogenFrameworkcentral purchasing body18 Nov 20263d£30,000,000
Services for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) in Highland1 Dec 202616d£3,600,000

What they buy
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 44 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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  • Contract84%(37 notices)
    37 of 44 notices are Contract (84%).
  • Framework16%(7 notices)
    7 of 44 notices are Framework (16%).
Procedure route
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  • Open66%(29 notices)
    29 of 44 notices are Open (66%).
  • Limited / restricted23%(10 notices)
    10 of 44 notices are Limited / restricted (23%).
  • Route not published7%(3 notices)
    3 of 44 notices are Route not published (7%).
  • Selective5%(2 notices)
    2 of 44 notices are Selective (5%).
Typical bids per lot
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Based on 23 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

4robust · n=2317.4% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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Based on 44 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

021 of 44 notices amended

Who wins here
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All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Bowmans (Locheil Logistics Ltd)framework/DPS on 145.4%314—
New Start Highlandframework/DPS on 345.4%35—
CrossReach (the operating name for The Church of Scotland Social Care Council)framework/DPS on 334.1%013—
Apex Scotlandframework/DPS on 222.7%22—
Centred(Scotland)framework/DPS on 222.7%22—
Right Thereframework/DPS on 122.7%118—
seafield park transportframework/DPS on 122.7%110—
Richard Irvin FM Limitedframework/DPS on 122.7%15—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 14% of 74 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 198 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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£120mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 35 of 35 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 66%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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£1.0m middle valuerobust · n=35Middle half £375k–£4.0m.

Contracts ending
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153 of 185 contracts carry an end date, 131 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 30 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 105 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
17 New Housing Units, Dores, Invernesscentral purchasing bodyConstruction workAwarded / complete1 Apr 2026—
Managed Print ServiceOffice and computing machineryAwarded / complete12 Mar 2026—
Provision of Cromarty-Nigg Ferry ServiceFerry transport servicesOpen4 Feb 2026£300,000
Housing Development at Torvean North, Inverness (Phase 1A including external works)Construction workCancelled27 Jan 2026—
Provision of 211 Bell type Banks for collection of Glass and transportation to processorRefuse recycling servicesAwarded / complete23 Jan 2026—
Corran Ferry Infrastructure Improvement Scheme (CFIIS)Construction workAwarded / complete16 Jan 2026£27,000,000
Provision of Treasury Management Advisory ServicesTreasury servicesAwarded / complete6 Jan 2026£88,000
Female Domestic Abuse Outreach Services – Highland West – Lochaber AreaHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete23 Dec 2025—
Female Domestic Abuse Outreach Services – Highland Mid – Ross-shire AreaHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete23 Dec 2025—
Female Domestic Abuse Outreach Services – Highland North – Caithness and Sutherland AreaHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete23 Dec 2025—
The purchase and maintenance of Shredders for pre-treating Bulky WasteIndustrial machineryAwarded / complete18 Dec 2025£2,300,000
Collection, Storage and Redelivery of Household Belongings 2025Framework3 lotsContainer storage systemOpen6 Nov 2025—
Mobile Battery Storage Units for EV Chargingcentral purchasing bodyBattery chargersAwarded / complete29 Oct 2025£280,000
North of Scotland Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure PartnershipBattery chargersAwarded / complete20 Oct 2025—
THE PROVISION OF WASTE HAULAGE SERVICES 20253 lotsRefuse transport servicesAwarded / complete15 Oct 2025£33,000,000
Children's Disability Short Breaks (Highland)FrameworkHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete14 Oct 2025£400,000
Visitor Levy Consultation Analysis Report, Economic Impact Assessment, Forecasting and Integrated Impact AssessmentBusiness analysis consultancy servicesAwarded / complete30 Sept 2025—
Provision of Transported School Meals 20253 lotsTaxi servicesOpen24 Sept 2025—
Energy Efficiency FrameworkFramework5 lotsAdvisory architectural servicesAwarded / complete17 Sept 2025£25,000,000
Supply & Delivery of Power Tools & Associated Items and Specified Services – 2025 - HCcentral purchasing bodyMachine toolsOpen2 Sept 2025£291,000

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Contracts Finder adds 2 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.

About this data
  • One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
  • Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
  • Contract end dates. 153 of 185 published contracts have an end date; 131 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.