VisitScotland: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Scotland·Edinburgh·Central purchasing body on 7 of 16 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 11 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.
28 awarded tenders, 34 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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting11 procedures · 69%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet3 procedures · 19%73 Research and development services1 procedures · 6%80 Education and training services1 procedures · 6%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental1 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 · 16 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%(16 notices)
16 of 16 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.
Open100%(16 notices)
16 of 16 notices are Open (100%).
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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 11 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 16 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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| The Rocket Group | 2 | 7.1% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Big Wednesday | 1 | 3.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| davies tanner | 1 | 3.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Dragon Trail International | 1 | 3.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Key Data | 1 | 3.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Decision House | 1 | 3.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| OAG | 1 | 3.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| HOPSCOTCH Tourism France | 1 | 3.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 14% of 28 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 34 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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| Event & Stand Management Services - UK & Europe | The Rocket Group | — | — | £1,215,000 † |
| Event & Stand Management Services - North America | The Rocket Group | — | — | £725,000 † |
| VSEH25001 - Social Media China | Dragon Trail International | — | — | £401,400 † |
| Search Engine Optimisation Services (SEO) | Big Wednesday | — | — | £370,908 † |
| VisitScotland Global Strategic Communications and Media | Davies Tanner Marketing Services Ltd | — | — | £348,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 43 of 43 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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| VSEH25001 - Social Media ChinaMarketing services | Cancelled | 7 Mar 2025 | £205,000 |
| Accessibility Guide Service (Concession)Business services: law | Awarded / complete | 22 Mar 2024 | — |
| Decarbonising the Supply Chain: Inbound Tour Operator (North America)Travel agency | Awarded / complete | 22 Mar 2024 | — |
| Host Venue for VisitScotland Connect 2024 and 2025 WorkshopsEvent services | Awarded / complete | 4 Aug 2023 | — |
| Concession - Core Consumer MapsPrinted matter and related products | Awarded / complete | 10 Apr 2023 | — |
| Scottish Accommodation Occupancy SurveyResearch services | Awarded / complete | 23 Dec 2022 | — |
| Books & Maps (Retail)Publications | Awarded / complete | 29 Nov 2022 | — |
| Scottish Accommodation Occupancy SurveyResearch services | Open | 7 Jul 2022 | — |
| Video and Image ProductionAdvertising | Open | 1 Jun 2022 | £220,000 |
| Business Events - UK & Global Strategic Communications & MediaPublic relations consultancy services | Open | 30 May 2022 | £279,000 |
| Marketing Strategy and Creative DevelopmentAdvertising and marketing services | Open | 16 May 2022 | £200,000 |
| Event & Stand Management Services - UK & EuropeEvent services | Open | 11 May 2022 | £1,840,000 |
| Event & Stand Management Services - North AmericaEvent services | Open | 10 May 2022 | £725,000 |
| Search Engine OptimisationWeb search engine providers | Awarded / complete | 2 May 2022 | £500,000 |
| Books & Maps (Retail)Publications | Open | 25 Apr 2022 | — |
| Online Travel Agency in ChinaTravel agency and similar services | Awarded / complete | 12 Apr 2022 | — |
| Concession of Core Consumer PublicationsPrinting and related services | Open | 9 Sept 2021 | — |
| Festival UK* 2022 – Creative Project Commissioning Contract (Scotland)Cultural event organisation services | Awarded / complete | 4 Jun 2021 | — |
| VisitScotland Expo 2022 and 2023 Venue HireEvent services | Open | 19 Apr 2021 | £270,000 |
| Electronic Point of Sale SystemPoint of sale (POS) software development services | Awarded / complete | 1 Apr 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 30 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.