University of the Highlands and Islands: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Companies House: PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)ScotlandInverness

Companies HouseSC148203 ↗Websiteuhi.ac.uk ↗

Open now0no live notices
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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 months20% vs prior 12 months (2)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Top-3 supplier share24%of 21 awarded procedures · 33 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.

21 awarded tenders, 33 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months5none within 6 months
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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 award value, 24m£360knet · on 1 of 1 published values · top 5 = 100%
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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 · 4 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.

  • Framework75%(3 notices)
    3 of 4 notices are Framework (75%).
  • Contract25%(1 notices)
    1 of 4 notices are Contract (25%).
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.

  • Open100%(4 notices)
    4 of 4 notices are Open (100%).
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 1 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

2indicative · n=10% 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 4 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

14 of 4 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
Academia Ltd29.5%02—
LINKEDIN (IRELAND)29.5%02—
Softcat Plcframework/DPS on 114.8%11—
Capita Business Services Ltdframework/DPS on 114.8%11—
Armstrong Watson14.8%11—
Access2learnframework/DPS on 114.8%11—
Browns Booksframework/DPS on 114.8%11—
STU314.8%03—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 24% of 21 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 33 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.

£360kSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 1 of 1 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 100%.
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
External Audit ServicesArmstrong Watson——£360,000 †

Contracts ending
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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 · 5 of 32 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 32 of 32 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Provision of Reading List Software and Associated ServicesSoftware consultancy servicesAwarded / complete1 Jun 2023—
Framework Agreement for the Provision of Occupational Health Services to the named Academic Partners of the University of the Highlands and IslandsFrameworkHealth servicesCancelled25 May 2023—
Provision of a Plasma Assisted - Chemical Vapour Deposition (PA-CVD) SystemLaboratoryCancelled23 Jan 2023—
Provision of Research Collaboration Project to Investigate Highly Antimicrobial Inorganic Coasting for Infection ControlApplication work of protective coatingsOpen7 Dec 2022—
Provision of Hotel Booking ServicesAccommodation servicesCancelled25 Oct 2022—
Provision of a Mass SpectrometerMass spectrometerCancelled22 Sept 2022£500,000
Provision of Parts for the Construction of a Physical Vapour Deposition System4 lotsBiomedical equipmentCancelled16 Sept 2022—
Provision of a Research Collaboration Project to investigate highly antimicrobial inorganic coatings for infection controlApplication work of protective coatingsCancelled16 Sept 2022—
Provision of Research Collaboration Project to investigate highly antimicrobial inorganic coatings for infection controlApplication work of protective coatingsPlanned15 Sept 2022—
Provision of a Research Collaboration Project to investigate highly antimicrobial inorganic coatings for infection controlApplication work of protective coatingsCancelled31 May 2022—
Provision of LaptopsPortable computersAwarded / complete20 Jul 2021—
EBSCO CollectionsSubscription servicesAwarded / complete14 Jun 2021—

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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 32 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.