West Lothian Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Local-authority-districtLocal authorityScotlandLivingstonCentral purchasing body on 37 of 64 notices

Find a Tender organisation id1335Websitewestlothian.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 months42+91% vs prior 12 months (22)
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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 lot315.8% single-bid · 19 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 19 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share9%of 104 awarded procedures · 368 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.

104 awarded tenders, 368 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months2none 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.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£27mnet · on 41 of 183 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 56%
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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 · 64 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 80% (51 notices)
  • Framework 20% (13 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 48% (31 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 41% (26 notices)
  • Route not published 6% (4 notices)
  • Selective 5% (3 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 19 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3robust · n=1915.8% 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 64 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

0.532 of 64 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 7 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=7

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
Procast Building Contractors Ltd.framework/DPS on 454.8%23119 May 2026
Response Building Maintenance Services (Scotland) Ltdframework/DPS on 443.8%12019 May 2026
sd travelframework/DPS on 343.8%072 Apr 2024
E & M Horsburgh Ltdframework/DPS on 343.8%042 Apr 2024
City Gate Construction Limitedframework/DPS on 332.9%11419 May 2026
tt testing ltdframework/DPS on 232.9%1819 May 2026
Action for Childrenframework/DPS on 132.9%1625 Mar 2026
Direct Care Service Limitedframework/DPS on 232.9%1330 Apr 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 9% of 104 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 368 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.

£27mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 41 of 183 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 56%.
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.

£243k middle valuerobust · n=41Middle half £135k–£635k; 4 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
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
Care Home for Adults with Learning DisabilitiesLivingston Homereach——£3,980,000 †
Care Home for Adults with Learning DisabilitiesLivingston Homereach——£3,980,000 †
Community Link Worker and Distress Brief Intervention ServicesSAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health)——£3,172,000 †
Information and Advice for Unpaid Carers and People with DisabilitiesCarers of West Lothian——£2,200,000 †
RAAC works to Domestic Properties in West LothianAilsa Building Contractors Ltd——£2,058,938 †

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.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 5 of 347 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 143 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
CC13997 - x4 6x4 Artic Unitscentral purchasing bodyVehicle bodiesAwarded / complete14 Oct 2025—
CC14168 - Windows and Doors Framework Call-Off 2025-28Frameworkcentral purchasing bodyInstallation of doors and windowsAwarded / complete13 Oct 2025—
WLC Property and void cleaning and environmental works frameworkFrameworkAccommodation cleaning servicesAwarded / complete21 Aug 2025£1,200,000
Asbestos Services FrameworkFramework3 lotsAsbestos removal servicesAwarded / complete25 Jul 2025£12,000,000
Removals and Storage Framework AgreementFrameworkcentral purchasing body3 lotsStorage and warehousing servicesAwarded / complete24 Jul 2025—
Monitoring of Cathodic Protection Systemscentral purchasing bodyBridge-inspection servicesCancelled6 Jun 2025£245,000
CC14214 - Early Learning and Childcare - Re-opening of Framework CC13109FrameworkPre-school education servicesOpen16 May 2025—
Community Link Worker and Distress Brief Intervention ServicesHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete30 Apr 2025£3,171,670
Hybrid, Bulk and Digital Mail ServicesElectronic mail service providerAwarded / complete29 Apr 2025—
Printing and Associated ServicesDigital printing servicesAwarded / complete25 Apr 2025—

Search all 143 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 (£29m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 236 award records on 47 procedures (183 to a single canonical supplier, 53 multi-supplier). 41 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: 5 of 347 published contracts carry a period end; 2 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (9 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-FTS-105248GB-FTS-10588GB-FTS-12617GB-FTS-39120GB-FTS-43660GB-FTS-66176GB-FTS-87873GB-FTS-96508GB-FTS-97032

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-1335