Torfaen County Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Local-authority-districtNHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY - LEGACYLocal authorityWales (Cymru)Torfaen

Official UK PPONPDNG-5431-HGYVWebsitetorfaen.gov.uk ↗

Open now2next deadline 20 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months17+113% vs prior 12 months (8)
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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 lot428.6% single-bid · 7 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 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share21%of 19 awarded procedures · 18 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.

19 awarded tenders, 18 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£11mnet · on 9 of 10 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 81%
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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

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Low Level Support Services - HSG Tender Torfaen20 Oct 202620d£2,800,000
Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Flying Start Childcare placementsDPScentral purchasing body30 Oct 20291126d£1,200,000

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 · 25 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.

  • Contract 92% (23 notices)
  • Dynamic purchasing system 4% (1 notices)
  • Framework 4% (1 notices)
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.

  • Open 60% (15 notices)
  • Direct award 20% (5 notices)
  • Route not published 12% (3 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 4% (1 notices)
  • Selective 4% (1 notices)
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 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4robust · n=728.6% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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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.

Last 24 months.

56 daysrobust · n=5
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 25 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

010 of 25 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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.

Last 24 months.

3.1% below estimaterobust · n=8

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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
The Wallich315.8%0320 Jun 2024
Cartrefi Cymru Co-operative Ltd15.3%1221 Aug 2026
Cera Care Operations Limited15.3%1121 Aug 2026
Adferiad Recovery15.3%1126 Aug 2026
south wales sports grounds ltd15.3%1118 Aug 2025
Complete Weed Control South & Central Wales Limited15.3%1116 Mar 2026
Crystal Pathways Ltd15.3%115 Mar 2026
Abacare (Care Agency) Ltd15.3%1128 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.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£11mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 9 of 10 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 81%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£921k middle valuerobust · n=9Middle half £600k–£1.3m.
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
Older Persons Extra Care SchemesAbacare (Care Agency) Ltd28 Jan 20263 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 Limited21 Aug 20263 yrs · up to 4 yrs£1,732,640
≈ £578k/yr
Hoarding Support ServicesAdferiad Recovery26 Aug 20265 yrs · up to 8 yrs£1,300,000
≈ £260k/yr
Adults with Learning Disability Supported Housing Schemes – Lot 2 - Somerton HouseCartrefi Cymru Co-operative Ltd21 Aug 20263 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 Ltd21 Aug 20263 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

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Greenmeadow Farm - Catering and Events Operationscentral purchasing bodyCatering servicesOpen3 Feb 2025£900,000
Provision for a Mental Health Support Servicecentral purchasing bodyAccommodation management servicesOpen13 Jan 2025£5,760,000
Management of Torfaen Leisure FacilitiesSports facilities operation servicesOpen12 Nov 2024—
Generic Supported Housing Preventing Homelessness Service Tendercentral purchasing bodyAccommodation management servicesOpen20 Jun 2024£1,800,000
Provision of Regional Support Services to Refugees 2024Guidance servicesOpen19 Jun 2024£600,000
Third Sector SupportHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete24 May 2024—
Manage Household Recycling Centre (HRC) and Transfer Stationcentral purchasing bodyRefuse recycling servicesPlanned1 May 2024—
Provision of a Residential Children’s Homecentral purchasing bodyHealth and social work servicesOpen22 Mar 2024£2,000,000
Provision of Torfaen Accommodation and Assessment Hub Servicecentral purchasing bodyAccommodation management servicesAwarded / complete14 Feb 2024—
Provision of Torfaen Generic Low Level Support Servicecentral purchasing bodyAccommodation management servicesAwarded / complete9 Jan 2024—
Provision of Children and Families Disability Support Servicecentral purchasing bodyDaycare services for handicapped children and young peopleOpen4 Dec 2023£975,000
DPS for the Provision of Domiciliary CareDPSHealth and social work servicesOpen17 Nov 2023—
Provision of a Residential Children’s Homecentral purchasing bodyHealth and social work servicesOpen15 Nov 2023£2,000,000
Torfaen Team Around the Family Servicecentral purchasing bodyChild daycare servicesOpen13 Nov 2023£800,000
Provision of Torfaen Alarms Monitoring Servicescentral purchasing bodyAlarm systemsOpen20 Oct 2023£728,000
Care Provision for Ty Cae Nant extra care schemecentral purchasing bodyAccommodation management servicesOpen17 Aug 2023£950,000
Planned Domiciliary Care Night Service Tendercentral purchasing bodyAccommodation management servicesOpen17 Aug 2023£980,000
Flying Start Two-Year-Old Childcare Expansion Phase 2bcentral purchasing bodyChild daycare servicesOpen10 Feb 2023£1,004,250
Dynamic Purchasing System for Disability Facility AdaptationsDPS4 lotsAccess rampsOpen29 Nov 2022—
Provision for an Independent Reviewing Officers Servicecentral purchasing bodyGuidance servicesOpen3 Oct 2022£975,000

Search all 56 procedures for this authority →

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.

GB-FTS-1049GB-FTS-15309GB-FTS-1551GB-FTS-169720GB-FTS-66691GB-FTS-86737

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PDNG-5431-HGYV