West Berkshire District Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Local-authority-districtSocial housing register: Local authorityNHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY - LEGACYLocal authoritySouth East EnglandNEWBURY

Find a Tender organisation id138888Websitewestberks.gov.uk ↗

Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months0-100% vs prior 12 months (14)
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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 lot320% single-bid · 5 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 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share16%of 19 awarded procedures · 45 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.

19 awarded tenders, 45 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£21mnet · on 6 of 6 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 95%
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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 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 · 14 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.

  • Contract 100% (14 notices)
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.

  • Open 64% (9 notices)
  • Route not published 29% (4 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 7% (1 notices)
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 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3robust · n=520% 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 14 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

210 of 14 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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 4 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0.6% below estimatemoderate · n=4

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
Step by Step Partnership Limited15.3%1119 Nov 2024
Housing 2115.3%1118 Dec 2024
UNIT4 Business Software Limited15.3%1121 Feb 2025
Two Saints Limited15.3%1131 Jan 2025
Care Outlook UK15.3%1111 Feb 2025
Community Homes of Intensive Care & Education (CHOICE) Limited15.3%1117 Dec 2024
EA Recovery & Contracting Services Ltd. T/A Station Tyres & Service Centre15.3%0327 Jun 2023
ABC Travel (Wokingham) Ltdframework/DPS on 115.3%0212 Oct 2022

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 16% of 19 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 45 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 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.

£21mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 6 of 6 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 95%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£3.5m middle valuerobust · n=6Middle half £2.7m–£3.8m.
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
Provision of a Care and Support Service – Extra Care HousingCare Outlook UK——£7,100,000 †
Complex Needs Learning Disability Supported Living Service at Blagden CloseCommunity Homes of Intensive Care & Education (CHOICE) Limited——£3,842,410 †
Provision for a Care and Support Service - Extra Care Housing Lot 2Housing 21——£3,570,000 †
Supported Lodgings for Young People in CareStep by Step Partnership Limited——£3,487,255 †
Adult Homeless Accommodation ServiceTwo Saints Limited——£2,500,000 †

Recent procedures

Latest 49 of 49 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
West Berkshire Council / Council Tax and associated mailing servicesMailing servicesAwarded / complete22 Mar 2024—
Digital Roadmap Projects Support for the DIG Partnership BerkshireBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete27 Feb 2024—
Provision of Apprenticeship Training Provider Services - Social Care and Childcare / EducationEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete20 Oct 2023—
Waste and Recycling Collection Services to Schools and Corporate BuildingsSecurity servicesOpen27 Sept 2023—
Provision of Apprenticeship Training Provider Services (Resources)Education and training servicesAwarded / complete27 Sept 2023—
Corporate Security ServicesSecurity servicesOpen23 Aug 2023—
Grazeley Solar Farm Early Market EngagementElectrical engineering installation worksPlanned23 Aug 2023£16,000,000
Digital Community Signposting SolutionSoftware package and information systemsPlanned14 Jul 2023£105,000
Fleet Vehicle and Maintenance Services for West Berkshire Council4 lotsFleet managementAwarded / complete27 Jun 2023—
Local Bus Services Network (West Berkshire) 2024-2032Public road transport servicesOpen26 Jun 2023£6,000,000
Local Bus Service Network for West Berkshire September 2024 - August 2032Public road transport servicesPlanned12 Jun 2023£6,000,000
Architect Services for Falkland Primary School Classroom ReplacementArchitectural and related servicesOpen2 Jun 2023—
West Berkshire Council Supplier Fair 13 June 2023Construction workPlanned24 May 2023—
HR and Payroll System (Software as a Service)Software-related servicesAwarded / complete15 May 2023£1,900,000
Digital Infrastructure Group (DIG) Berkshire Digital Roadmap Delivery 2023-2027IT services: consultingPlanned21 Apr 2023£300,000
Short Stay (Respite) Services for Adults with Learning Disabilities, Autism and Those with Complex Needs and/or Behaviours Perceived to be ChallengingHealth and social work servicesOpen13 Mar 2023£2,500,000
West Berkshire Adult Advocacy Services2 lotsHealth and social work servicesOpen11 Feb 2023£2,618,832
Hungerford Leisure Centre StudioSport-related servicesOpen13 Jan 2023£210,000
Waste Contract for Schools and Corporate sitesRefuse and waste related servicesPlanned14 Oct 2022£500,000
Transport Services Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)DPS2 lotsRoad transport servicesAwarded / complete12 Oct 2022£10,000,000

Search all 49 procedures for this authority →

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 (£102m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 6 award records on 6 procedures (6 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 6 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: 4 of 22 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 (21 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-115088GB-FTS-115852GB-FTS-116974GB-FTS-122701GB-FTS-124205GB-FTS-132059GB-FTS-135280GB-FTS-135446GB-FTS-138822GB-FTS-14822GB-FTS-21369GB-FTS-34587GB-FTS-50561GB-FTS-6744GB-FTS-72831GB-FTS-84362GB-FTS-84991GB-FTS-85521GB-FTS-90930GB-FTS-93557GB-FTS-95106

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-138888