University Of Edinburgh: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Education·Scotland·Edinburgh·Central purchasing body on 62 of 123 notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.
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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 29 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.
245 awarded tenders, 323 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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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 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
38 Laboratory, optical and precision38 procedures · 31%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals11 procedures · 9%50 Repair and maintenance services10 procedures · 8%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting10 procedures · 8%71 Architectural, construction, engineering8 procedures · 7%45 Construction work7 procedures · 6%48 Software package and information systems7 procedures · 6%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet7 procedures · 6%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 · 123 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.
Contract93%(114 notices)
114 of 123 notices are Contract (93%).Framework7%(9 notices)
9 of 123 notices are Framework (7%).
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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 / restricted56%(69 notices)
69 of 123 notices are Limited / restricted (56%).Open25%(31 notices)
31 of 123 notices are Open (25%).Route not published12%(15 notices)
15 of 123 notices are Route not published (12%).Selective7%(8 notices)
8 of 123 notices are Selective (7%).
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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 29 lots from this buyer’s competitions, 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 123 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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| Becton, Dickinson U.K. Limited | 5 | 2% | 2 | 5 | — |
| BRUKER UK LIMITED | 5 | 2% | 2 | 5 | — |
| ¿Oracle Corporation UK Ltd. | 4 | 1.6% | 2 | 4 | — |
| Beckman Coulter UK Ltd | 4 | 1.6% | 1 | 4 | — |
| Clarke Energy | 4 | 1.6% | 0 | 4 | — |
| Life Technologies Ltd | 4 | 1.6% | 0 | 4 | — |
| New England Biolabs UK Ltd | 3 | 1.2% | 1 | 4 | — |
| BELL GROUP LTD | 3 | 1.2% | 1 | 3 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 245 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 323 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 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.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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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| Business Travel Services | Key Travel | — | — | £89,765,643 † |
| Network Refresh | EUROPEAN ELECTRONIQUE LIMITED | — | — | £10,028,512 † |
| Building Energy Management System Upgrade | SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC LIMITED | — | — | £10,000,000 † |
| Student Group Travel Services | Key Travel | — | — | £8,999,787 † |
| Central & Accommodation Area | OCS Technical Services Ltd | — | — | £5,500,000 † |
Contracts endingi
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.
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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 · 14 of 287 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Contract Award: Managed Service - ISG Development Framework | Venesky Brown Recruitment Ltd | 31 Oct 2026 | £2,500,000 |
| Tree Planting and Maintenance | CK Forestry Contractors Ltd. | 31 May 2027 | £564,500 |
| Contract Modification to NCA30931 MircoPETCT Multi-Year Service Contract | Mediso Medical Imaging Systems UK Limited | 30 Sept 2027 | £351,500 |
| TImetabling SaaS | Eventmap Limited | 10 Mar 2028 | £373,909 |
| TImetabling SaaS | Eventmap Limited | 10 Mar 2028 | £958,908 |
| EC1068 Research Models, Re-derivation, Revitalisation & Related Services & Goods | Charles River, ENVIGO RMS (UK) LIMITED, Janvier LABS | 31 Mar 2028 | £2,600,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 293 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Heart Attack Diagnosis Software DevelopmentMedical software development services | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2026 | £180,000 |
| MALDI-TOF SystemLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2026 | £250,000 |
| King's Buildings Shuttle Bus ServicePublic road transport services | Awarded / complete | 10 Aug 2026 | — |
| Purchase of Class II Biosafety CabinetLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 10 Aug 2026 | — |
| Student Record PlatformIndustry specific software package | Planned | 6 Aug 2026 | — |
| Trend BEMS Comprehensive Maintenance, Replacement and Upgrade WorksEnergy-management services | Open | 5 Aug 2026 | £2,500,000 |
| Trane Chillers Comprehensive MaintenanceCooling and ventilation equipment | Awarded / complete | 5 Aug 2026 | — |
| Procurement of Bioreactors for Carbon LoopLaboratory | Open | 4 Aug 2026 | £200,000 |
| EC1082 Taxi Services Framework AgreementTaxi services | Awarded / complete | 3 Aug 2026 | £2,570,000 |
| BD Consolidated Service ContractLaboratory services | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2026 | — |
| NCA31153 Incucyte SX5 (for IRR South)Laboratory | Awarded / complete | 27 Jul 2026 | — |
| Temporary Hospitality, Catering and Events Staff for ACESupply services of personnel including temporary staff | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2026 | £3,600,000 |
| Strategic Leadership in Research Training ProgrammePersonal development training services | Awarded / complete | 20 Jul 2026 | £183,333 |
| High Throughput Single Cell Spatial InstrumentImaging equipment for medical | Awarded / complete | 17 Jul 2026 | — |
| Purchase of a Materials TesterLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 15 Jul 2026 | — |
| ETL ToolMiscellaneous software development services and computer systems | Awarded / complete | 13 Jul 2026 | — |
| Aquaculture Impact Evaluation FrameworkResearch services | Planned | 26 Jun 2026 | £500,000 |
| Oracle On Premise Database SupportSoftware support services | Awarded / complete | 24 Jun 2026 | — |
| Network RefreshNetwork equipment | Not published | 16 Jun 2026 | — |
| Core Enterprise Business Systems and Related ServicesSoftware package and information systems | Not published | 15 Jun 2026 | — |
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. 14 of 287 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.