University of the West of Scotland: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Education·Scotland·Paisley·Central purchasing body on 5 of 10 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.
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
14 awarded tenders, 14 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet3 procedures · 30%48 Software package and information systems2 procedures · 20%35 Security, fire-fighting, police1 procedures · 10%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 10%51 Installation services (except software)1 procedures · 10%55 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services1 procedures · 10%66 Financial and insurance services1 procedures · 10%71 Architectural, construction, engineering1 procedures · 10%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 · 10 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.
Contract100%(10 notices)
10 of 10 notices are Contract (100%).
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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 / restricted60%(6 notices)
6 of 10 notices are Limited / restricted (60%).Open40%(4 notices)
4 of 10 notices are Open (40%).
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 10 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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| Caledonian Maintenance Services Ltd | 2 | 14.3% | 1 | 4 | — |
| King Communications & Security Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Waracle LTD | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 2 | — |
| MHR International UK Limited | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bloomberg LP | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Flywire Payments Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Sword IT Solutions | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | — |
| R D B Concepts Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 29% of 14 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 14 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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| 24/7 Managed Service for Student Information System | R D B Concepts Ltd | — | — | £621,259 † |
| Renewal and Upgrade to iTrent System | MHR International UK Limited | — | — | £585,955 † |
| Cleaning Services at Student Residences – Lot 2 Paisley | Caledonian Maintenance Services Ltd | — | — | £480,655 † |
| Migration and Support of the UWS Website (Web Hosting Services) | Waracle LTD | — | — | £297,219 † |
| Cleaning Services at Student Residences – Lot 1 Ayr | Caledonian Maintenance Services Ltd | — | — | £247,440 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 17 of 17 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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| Financial Data Analytics and Trading Tools - Hardware and softwareIndustry specific software package | Awarded / complete | 19 Oct 2026 | — |
| Electronic Payment Solution for Fees and Online ShopInternational payment transfer services | Awarded / complete | 3 Aug 2026 | — |
| 24/7 Managed Service for Student Information SystemIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 16 Jul 2026 | — |
| Migration and Support of the UWS Website (Web Hosting Services)IT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 4 Jun 2026 | — |
| Cleaning Services at Student Residences – Lot 1 Ayr & Lot 2 PaisleyHotel accommodation services | Awarded / complete | 10 Mar 2026 | £500,000 |
| Ground Maintenance - Ayr and Paisley CampusesGrassing services | Awarded / complete | 28 Nov 2025 | £170,000 |
| Migration and Support of the UWS Website (Web Hosting Services)Information technology services | Open | 6 Nov 2025 | £200,000 |
| Planned Maintenance and Reactive service for the Uninterrupted Power SupplyMaintenance and repair of information technology equipment | Awarded / complete | 11 Aug 2025 | £200,000 |
| Renewal and Upgrade to iTrent SystemIT software package | Awarded / complete | 2 Apr 2025 | — |
| CCTV Hardware and Software upgradeHardware installation services | Awarded / complete | 8 Jan 2025 | — |
| Provision of an Accounts Payable SolutionInvoicing services | Cancelled | 6 Feb 2023 | — |
| UWS Cleaning services at student residencesAccommodation cleaning services | Awarded / complete | 27 Oct 2021 | £200,000 |
| Provision of Legal ServicesLegal services | Awarded / complete | 10 Jun 2021 | — |
| UWS: Provision of a Supported Social Learning PlatformE-learning services | Awarded / complete | 6 May 2021 | — |
| Provision of a Payment PlatformFinancial transaction processing and clearing-house services | Awarded / complete | 6 Apr 2021 | — |
| AGATA Detection CapsulesApparatus for measuring radiation | Awarded / complete | 6 Apr 2021 | — |
| UWS Cleaning Services at Student ResidencesAccommodation cleaning services | Cancelled | 9 Feb 2021 | — |
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. 0 of 20 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.