Welsh Government: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Find a Tender organisation id116599Websitegov.wales ↗
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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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 3 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.
95 awarded tenders, 186 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 award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
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
45 Construction work2 procedures · 40%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances1 procedures · 20%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 20%55 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services1 procedures · 20%75 Administration, defence and social security1 procedures · 20%85 Health and social work services1 procedures · 20%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental1 procedures · 20%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting1 procedures · 20%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 · 5 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.
- Contract 100% (5 notices)
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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 / restricted 40% (2 notices)
- Open 40% (2 notices)
- Route not published 20% (1 notices)
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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 3 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 5 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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| Cardiff & Vale College | 4 | 4.2% | 0 | 5 | 30 Apr 2024 |
| RSK ADAS Limited | 3 | 3.2% | 0 | 4 | 18 Jan 2024 |
| Coleg Cambria | 3 | 3.2% | 0 | 3 | 30 Apr 2024 |
| GROSVENOR CONSTRUCTION LTD | 2 | 2.1% | 1 | 2 | 16 Apr 2025 |
| Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids' Clubs | 2 | 2.1% | 0 | 10 | 5 Dec 2023 |
| IBDG | 2 | 2.1% | 0 | 8 | 11 Oct 2023 |
| Aspiration Training Ltd | 2 | 2.1% | 0 | 7 | 5 Dec 2023 |
| Ricardo AEA Ltd | 2 | 2.1% | 0 | 3 | 2 Aug 2023 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 95 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 186 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 award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
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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| Kings Gate Main Contract | GROSVENOR CONSTRUCTION LTD | — | — | £5,210,000 † |
| Welsh Government Catering Services Contract | Compass Contract Services (U.K.) Limited, trading as ESS Government Services | — | — | £4,000,000 † |
| Sanctuary Seekers Support Service | Welsh Refugee Council | — | — | £3,154,000 † |
| Sanctuary Seekers Support Service | Welsh Refugee Council | — | — | £3,144,000 † |
| Wales Hate Support Centre | VICTIM SUPPORT | — | — | £1,079,962 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 159 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Soil Moisture Mapping & Coal Tip AnalysisEnvironmental monitoring other than for construction | Awarded / complete | 25 Nov 2025 | — |
| Sale of Land at Upper Cosmeston FarmConstruction work | Awarded / complete | 19 Sept 2025 | — |
| Welsh Government Catering Services ContractCanteen and catering services | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2025 | £4,000,000 |
| C142/2021/2022 - Inclusion Services WalesCivic betterment and community facility support services | Awarded / complete | 16 Jan 2025 | £3,750,000 |
| Secure External File Collaboration ServiceSoftware supply services | Awarded / complete | 31 Jul 2024 | — |
| Technical Policy Learning and Development Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Adult and other education services | Open | 10 Apr 2024 | £1,000,000 |
| Bro Tathan UtilitiesConstruction work | Open | 7 Mar 2024 | £1 |
| Economics of Sustainable Farming SchemeResearch services | Awarded / complete | 18 Jan 2024 | — |
| Information Advice Quality FrameworkSystem quality assurance planning services | Awarded / complete | 15 Jan 2024 | — |
| Planning Applications WalesData services | Planned | 15 Jan 2024 | — |
| Cadw 3D Laser Survey and other services Dynamic Purchasing SystemDimensional surveying services | Open | 6 Dec 2023 | £1,000,000 |
| Training and Support Programme: Playwork QualificationsEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 5 Dec 2023 | — |
| Gwasanaethau Cyfieithu a Chyfieithu ar y Pryd / Welsh Translation & Simultaneous Interpretation ServicesInterpretation services | Awarded / complete | 10 Nov 2023 | — |
| Export Market Visits and Exhibition TravelTravel agency | Awarded / complete | 25 Oct 2023 | — |
| Welsh Language Transmission InterventionsDesign and execution of research and development | Awarded / complete | 11 Oct 2023 | — |
| Export Services FrameworkBusiness and management consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 11 Oct 2023 | — |
| Wales Tourism Product DatabaseAdded-value database services | Planned | 3 Oct 2023 | — |
| New Industrial Unit, Rhyd y Blew, Ebbw ValeConstruction work for commercial buildings | Awarded / complete | 5 Sept 2023 | — |
| Care Service User and Carer InvolvementAdministration services | Awarded / complete | 31 Aug 2023 | — |
| Health and Care Research Funding Scheme ManagementAdministration services | Awarded / complete | 30 Aug 2023 | — |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£166m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 9 award records on 5 procedures (9 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 9 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 1 of 163 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (20 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-FTS-116599