Torfaen County Borough 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 7 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.
19 awarded tenders, 18 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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 |
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| Low Level Support Services - HSG Tender Torfaen | 20 Oct 2026 | 20d | £2,800,000 |
| Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Flying Start Childcare placements | 30 Oct 2029 | 1126d | £1,200,000 |
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 services13 procedures · 52% · 2 open45 Construction work2 procedures · 8%70 Real estate services2 procedures · 8%80 Education and training services1 procedures · 4% · 1 open24 Chemical products1 procedures · 4%55 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services1 procedures · 4%71 Architectural, construction, engineering1 procedures · 4%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet1 procedures · 4%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 · 25 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 92% (23 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 4% (1 notices)
- Framework 4% (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 60% (15 notices)
- Direct award 20% (5 notices)
- Route not published 12% (3 notices)
- Limited / restricted 4% (1 notices)
- Selective 4% (1 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 7 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 5 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 25 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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| The Wallich | 3 | 15.8% | 0 | 3 | 20 Jun 2024 |
| Cartrefi Cymru Co-operative Ltd | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 2 | 21 Aug 2026 |
| Cera Care Operations Limited | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 1 | 21 Aug 2026 |
| Adferiad Recovery | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 1 | 26 Aug 2026 |
| south wales sports grounds ltd | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 1 | 18 Aug 2025 |
| Complete Weed Control South & Central Wales Limited | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 1 | 16 Mar 2026 |
| Crystal Pathways Ltd | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 1 | 5 Mar 2026 |
| Abacare (Care Agency) Ltd | 1 | 5.3% | 1 | 1 | 28 Jan 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 21% of 19 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 18 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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| Older Persons Extra Care Schemes | Abacare (Care Agency) Ltd | 28 Jan 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £4,077,498 ≈ £1.4m/yr |
| Adults with Learning Disability Supported Housing Schemes – Lot 1 - Ty’r Hen Ysgol | Cera Care Operations Limited | 21 Aug 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £1,732,640 ≈ £578k/yr |
| Hoarding Support Services | Adferiad Recovery | 26 Aug 2026 | 5 yrs · up to 8 yrs | £1,300,000 ≈ £260k/yr |
| Adults with Learning Disability Supported Housing Schemes – Lot 2 - Somerton House | Cartrefi Cymru Co-operative Ltd | 21 Aug 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £1,086,292 ≈ £362k/yr |
| Adults with Learning Disability Supported Housing Schemes – Lot 3 - Clos Y Fran | Cartrefi Cymru Co-operative Ltd | 21 Aug 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £920,892 ≈ £307k/yr |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 56 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Hoarding Support ServiceSocial services | Awarded / complete | 27 Aug 2026 | £1,360,000 |
| Adults with Learning Disability Supported Housing SchemesHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 26 Aug 2026 | £4,200,000 |
| AI Foundation and Digital Front Door Services | Awarded / complete | 23 Jun 2026 | — |
| Route Optimisation SoftwareIT services: consulting | Planning | 5 Jun 2026 | £75,000 |
| Care and Support Service's for Children's Residential HomesHealth and social work services | Planned | 4 Jun 2026 | £2,000,000 |
| Care provision for Supported Housing SchemesHealth and social work services | Planned | 4 Jun 2026 | £4,000,000 |
| Generic Homeless Hostel Support ServiceHealth and social work services | Planned | 4 Jun 2026 | £2,240,000 |
| Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence (VAWDASV) Support ServiceHealth and social work services | Planned | 4 Jun 2026 | £3,627,482 |
| Engaging Specialist Recruitment Service Company | Awarded / complete | 14 Apr 2026 | — |
| Engaging specialist recruitment company | Awarded / complete | 9 Apr 2026 | — |
| QQ Provision for weed control 2026-2028 TCBC | Awarded / complete | 30 Mar 2026 | — |
| Pre-Birth Services for expectant parentsHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 5 Mar 2026 | £711,170 |
| Older Persons Extra Care SchemesHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 11 Feb 2026 | £3,528,000 |
| Blueprint for Growth’/Placemaking Plan | Awarded / complete | 28 Oct 2025 | — |
| Engaging specialist recruitment company | Awarded / complete | 23 Oct 2025 | — |
| Cwmbran High School 3G PitchConstruction work in connection with structures for sports ground | Awarded / complete | 18 Aug 2025 | £900,000 |
| Children and Families Domestic Abuse Support ServiceSocial services | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2025 | £600,000 |
| Development Partner for Regeneration and Community WellbeingArchitectural | Planning | 5 Jun 2025 | — |
| Young Persons Enhanced Support PathwayHealth and social work services | Planned | 16 May 2025 | — |
| Operation and Management of the Household Recycling Centre (HRC) and Waste Transfer Station (WTS) at Panteg Way, New InnRefuse and waste related services | Awarded / complete | 6 Feb 2025 | £12,000,000 |
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 (£152m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 10 award records on 8 procedures (10 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 1 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: 3 of 13 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (6 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-PPON-PDNG-5431-HGYV