University of St Andrews: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

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Find a Tender organisation id1904Websitest-andrews.ac.uk ↗

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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 months10-9% vs prior 12 months (11)
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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 lot46.7% single-bid · 15 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 15 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share8%of 64 awarded procedures · 68 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.

64 awarded tenders, 68 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£3.9mnet · on 14 of 18 published values · 4 repeated amounts set aside · top 5 = 57%
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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 · 21 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%(21 notices)
    21 of 21 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.

  • Open71%(15 notices)
    15 of 21 notices are Open (71%).
  • Limited / restricted29%(6 notices)
    6 of 21 notices are Limited / restricted (29%).
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 15 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4robust · n=156.7% 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 21 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

113 of 21 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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Richmond Sport LLP T/A Macron Sports Hub Dundee23.1%12—
Buro Happold Ltd23.1%02—
spinflex instruments ltd11.6%14—
PDG Helicopters11.6%11—
Datech Scientific Limited11.6%11—
SCIPRIOS GmbH11.6%11—
Refeyn11.6%11—
Cheshire Flying Services Limited Trading as Ravenair11.6%11—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 64 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 68 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.

£3.9mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 14 of 18 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 57%.
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.

£226k middle valuerobust · n=14Middle half £180k–£285k; 4 awards with ambiguous equal values within a procedure excluded from both figures.
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
School of Chemistry: Single-Crystal X-Ray DiffractometersRigaku Europe SE——£666,666 †
School of Earth & Environmental Science: Collision Cell Multi Collector Inductively Coupled Mass SpectrometerThermo Fisher Scientific——£585,569 †
School of Biology/SMRU: Bespoke 7.5M VesselUnst Inshore Services——£380,000 †
Estates: Building Management System (BMS) MaintenanceTESGL Ltd. T/A SSE Energy Solutions——£285,276 †
Residential & Business Services: Commercial Laundry ServicesFishers Services Ltd——£284,301 †

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 79 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
School of Chemistry: Synthesis Gas/CO2 Hydrogenation Testing Rig and Scale Up Rig2 lotsInstruments for checking physical characteristicsAwarded / complete13 Oct 2023—
Environmental Health & Safety Services: Fire Extinguisher MaintenanceFire blanketsAwarded / complete10 Oct 2023£200,000
School of Biology / SMRU: Camera System for use in Aerial Surveys of Grey Seal Breeding ColoniesCamerasAwarded / complete4 Oct 2023£200,000
Estates: Architect & Lead Designer for the Madras New College Building at the University of St AndrewsArchitectural design servicesAwarded / complete14 Sept 2023—
Estates: Project Manager & Contract Administrator for the New Madras College Buildingcentral purchasing bodyConstruction project management servicesAwarded / complete14 Sept 2023—
IT Services: Access Control System Maintenance and Installation ServicesAccess control systemAwarded / complete14 Aug 2023£1,000,000
School of Physics & Astronomy: C-Trap Confocal MicroscopeMicroscopesAwarded / complete28 Jun 2023—
Office of the Principal: Marquee Hire 2023 - 2025TentsAwarded / complete6 Jun 2023£200,000
Estates: Mechanical and Electrical Engineer for the New North Haugh Building at the University of St AndrewsMechanical and electrical engineering servicesAwarded / complete4 May 2023—
Estates: Civil and Structural Engineer for the New North Haugh Building at the University of St AndrewsCivil engineering consultancy servicesAwarded / complete4 May 2023—

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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. 5 of 81 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.