The Mercian Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Companies House: PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)West MidlandsWalsall

Official UK PPONPZVG-9173-WNQPWebsitethemerciantrust.org ↗

Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.

Notices, last 12 months9+125% vs prior 12 months (4)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot4.50% single-bid · 4 bid reports
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share27%of 15 awarded procedures · 14 suppliers
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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.

15 awarded tenders, 14 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months11 within 6 months
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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.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

Published award value, 24m£5.6mnet · on 11 of 11 published values · top 5 = 91%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

What they buy
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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

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

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract100%(13 notices)
    13 of 13 notices are Contract (100%).
Procedure route
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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.

  • Limited / restricted46%(6 notices)
    6 of 13 notices are Limited / restricted (46%).
  • Open38%(5 notices)
    5 of 13 notices are Open (38%).
  • Selective15%(2 notices)
    2 of 13 notices are Selective (15%).
Typical bids per lot
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4.5moderate · n=40% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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 13 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

06 of 13 notices amended

Who wins here
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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

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 27% of 15 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 14 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£5.6mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 11 of 11 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 91%; a further 1 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£143k middle valuerobust · n=11Middle half £82k–£474k.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
The Mercian Trust ITT for ICT Managed Service ProcurementTURN IT ON LIMITED——£2,831,975 †
The Mercian Trust Queen Mary’s Grammar School Artificial Pitch and Sporting FacilitiesBlakedown Sport & Play Limited——£1,156,645 †
The Mercian Trust Health Care Cash PlanUK Healthcare—3 yrs£483,300 †
≈ £161k/yr
The Mercian Trust ITT for Communications, Security & VoIPWarwickNet——£464,779 †
The Mercian Trust Aldridge School Roofing B BlockTHE GENERAL ASPHALTE COMPANY LIMITED—1 mo£167,932 †

Contracts ending
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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.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

Published end dates only · 9 of 15 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 17 of 17 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
The Mercian Trust QMHS Cottage DemolitionAwarded / complete15 Oct 2026—
The Mercian Trust Great Barr Alterations to Lower Floor IT & DT RoomsRefurbishment workAwarded / complete29 Sept 2026£50,000
The Mercian Trust Waste Management ServicesRefuse and waste related servicesAwarded / complete6 Aug 2026£400,000
The Mercian Trust Outsourced Payroll Service and HR and Payroll SystemPersonnel and payroll servicesOpen10 Jul 2026£400,000
The Mercian Trust Aldridge School Roofing B BlockAwarded / complete24 Jun 2026—
The Mercian Trust Queen Mary's High School Music Room & Reception RefurbishmentAwarded / complete23 Jun 2026—
The Mercian Trust Shire Oak Academy Science Block Window ReplacementAwarded / complete26 May 2026—
The Mercian QMGS Trust Refurbishment of Science Laboratories S1 and S5Awarded / complete20 Apr 2026—
The Mercian Trust Great Barr Toilet Alterations Phase 3 Ground Floor Girls ToiletsAwarded / complete16 Apr 2026—
The Mercian Trust Health Care Cash PlanHealth insurance servicesAwarded / complete22 Aug 2025£240,000
The Mercian Trust Queen Mary’s Grammar School Artificial Pitch and Sporting FacilitiesArchitectural design servicesAwarded / complete29 Apr 2025—
The Mercian Trust ITT for Communications, Security & VoIPAdult and other education servicesAwarded / complete23 Apr 2025—
The Mercian Trust ITT for ICT Managed Service ProcurementEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete23 Apr 2025—
The Mercian Trust Grounds MaintenanceGrounds maintenance servicesAwarded / complete9 Aug 2023—
The Mercian Trust Payroll and Human Resources SystemPersonnel and payroll servicesAwarded / complete29 Nov 2022—
The Mercian Trust - Building Cleaning ServicesBuilding-cleaning servicesAwarded / complete28 Jun 2021—
The Mercian Trust - Building Cleaning ServicesBuilding-cleaning servicesNot published12 Feb 2021—

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About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • 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. 9 of 15 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.