Tunbridge Wells 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 16 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.
31 awarded tenders, 55 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.
Open notices
3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| TWBC - Payment Kiosk | 2 Oct 2026 | 2d | £0 |
| TWBC Property Term Contract 2027 - Lots 3A, 3B, 3C & 4 (Mechanical, HVAC, Water Hygiene & Lift Maintenance) | 19 Oct 2026 | 19d | £2,760,000 |
| TWBC - Assembly Hall Theatre Security | 21 Oct 2026 | 21d | £250,000 |
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
71 Architectural, construction, engineering9 procedures · 27% · 1 open45 Construction work7 procedures · 21% · 1 open90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental5 procedures · 15% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services3 procedures · 9% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting3 procedures · 9% · 1 open48 Software package and information systems2 procedures · 6% · 1 open09 Petroleum, coal, oil and gas1 procedures · 3% · 1 open30 Office and computing machinery1 procedures · 3% · 1 openHow 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 · 33 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 97% (32 notices)
- Framework 3% (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 79% (26 notices)
- Limited / restricted 15% (5 notices)
- Direct award 6% (2 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 16 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 15 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 33 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 6 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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| OVE ARUP & PARTNERS LIMITED | 2 | 6.5% | 2 | 4 | 24 Sept 2026 |
| Land Use Consultants | 2 | 6.5% | 2 | 4 | 24 Sept 2026 |
| Iceni Projects Ltd | 2 | 6.5% | 2 | 3 | 24 Sept 2026 |
| Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners Limited | 2 | 6.5% | 2 | 2 | 24 Sept 2026 |
| Ricardo AEA Ltd | 2 | 6.5% | 1 | 2 | 5 Feb 2026 |
| Jeremy Benn Associates Ltd | 1 | 3.2% | 1 | 3 | 24 Sept 2026 |
| The Environment Partnership (TEP) Ltd | 1 | 3.2% | 1 | 2 | 24 Sept 2026 |
| RAPLEYS LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP | 1 | 3.2% | 1 | 2 | 24 Sept 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 31 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 55 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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| Tunbridge Wells - Commercial Waste Services | Countrystyle Group | — | — | £64,678 † |
| TWBC Sustainability Assessment | JBA Consulting Limited | 9 Jul 2025 | 2 yrs | £53,648 ≈ £27k/yr |
| Planning Department Consultation Software | DELIB LIMITED | 1 Jun 2026 | 4 yrs | £46,225 ≈ £12k/yr |
| Sherwood Lake Dam Design and Repair | Restek UK Ltd | 24 Nov 2025 | 3 mo | £43,545 |
| Demolition and Clearance at the Parks Depot | Goody Demolition Ltd | 30 Sept 2025 | 3 mo | £43,306 |
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 · 12 of 34 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| TWBC - Benhall Mill Road Parks Depot | AMMCASS CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING GROUP LIMITED, AMMCASS CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING GROUP LIMITED | 31 Dec 2026 | £638,000 |
| TWBC - Green Belt Study | Land Use Consultants, Land Use Consultants | 31 Dec 2026 | £82,577 |
| TWBC - Stock Condition Surveys | BLB Chartered Surveyors, BLB Chartered Surveyors | 24 Feb 2027 | £0 |
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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| Principal Designer and Principal Contractor for the design and repair of Sherwood Lake dam bankFlood-defences maintenance works | Awarded / complete | 23 Feb 2026 | £42,000 |
| TWBC - Benhall Mill Road Parks DepotConstruction work | Awarded / complete | 24 Dec 2025 | £660,000 |
| Royal Victoria Place Shopping Centre - MEP EngineerConsultative engineering and construction services | Awarded / complete | 22 Oct 2025 | £510,300 |
| Town Planning Heritage and Built Environment AdvisorBuilding consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 3 Sept 2025 | £0 |
| Royal Victoria Place Shopping Centre - Structural Engineer AdvisorConstruction consultancy services | Open | 23 Jul 2025 | £0 |
| Town Centre Masterplanning and Office Market ReviewGeneral management consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 10 Jul 2025 | £50,000 |
| Grounds Maintenance | Awarded / complete | 28 May 2025 | — |
| Tunbridge Wells - Commercial Waste ServicesRefuse and waste related services | Awarded / complete | 17 Apr 2025 | — |
| TWBC Assembly Hall Theatre Wet SalesFood | Open | 21 Jan 2025 | — |
| Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) & UniformOccupational clothing | Open | 30 Oct 2024 | £200,000 |
| TWBC & MBC Stationery and Office SuppliesOffice supplies | Awarded / complete | 2 Sept 2024 | — |
| Streetlighting Scouting, Inspection and MaintenanceMaintenance services of public-lighting installations and traffic lights | Awarded / complete | 7 Aug 2024 | — |
| RVP Development ManagerConstruction consultancy services | Open | 22 Mar 2024 | £500,000 |
| Replacement Carpet and Shock Pad at Hawkenbury Recreation GroundRepair and maintenance work in connection with sports facilities | Awarded / complete | 5 Mar 2024 | — |
| Tunbridge Wells Borough Council - Insurance ServicesInsurance services | Open | 26 Feb 2024 | — |
| Corporate Banking and Merchant ServicesBanking services | Awarded / complete | 19 Feb 2024 | — |
| Cleaning and Hygiene MaintenanceCleaning and sanitation services | Awarded / complete | 19 Feb 2024 | — |
| Hospital Discharge, Home Straight, Handyperson and Better Care servicesOther community | Awarded / complete | 19 Feb 2024 | — |
| Tunbridge Wells Ice RinkEvent services | Awarded / complete | 24 May 2023 | — |
| VEAT Notice - South West Kent Waste Partnership – Waste Services Contract 2019Refuse and waste related services | Awarded / complete | 10 Mar 2023 | — |
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 (£700k, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 26 award records on 17 procedures (17 to a single canonical supplier, 9 multi-supplier). 1 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 5 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- 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: 12 of 34 published contracts carry a period end; 3 end within 18 months, 3 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (1 historical Find a Tender publication identifier)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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