West Lothian Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Livingston·Central purchasing body on 37 of 64 notices
Find a Tender organisation id1335Websitewestlothian.gov.uk ↗
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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 19 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.
104 awarded tenders, 368 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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.
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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
90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental17 procedures · 27%85 Health and social work services13 procedures · 20%45 Construction work9 procedures · 14%80 Education and training services9 procedures · 14%34 Transport equipment and products7 procedures · 11%98 Other community, social and personal services7 procedures · 11%44 Construction structures and materials5 procedures · 8%71 Architectural, construction, engineering4 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 · 64 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 80% (51 notices)
- Framework 20% (13 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.
- Open 48% (31 notices)
- Limited / restricted 41% (26 notices)
- Route not published 6% (4 notices)
- Selective 5% (3 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 19 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 64 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 7 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
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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| Procast Building Contractors Ltd. | 5 | 4.8% | 2 | 31 | 19 May 2026 |
| Response Building Maintenance Services (Scotland) Ltd | 4 | 3.8% | 1 | 20 | 19 May 2026 |
| sd travel | 4 | 3.8% | 0 | 7 | 2 Apr 2024 |
| E & M Horsburgh Ltd | 4 | 3.8% | 0 | 4 | 2 Apr 2024 |
| City Gate Construction Limited | 3 | 2.9% | 1 | 14 | 19 May 2026 |
| tt testing ltd | 3 | 2.9% | 1 | 8 | 19 May 2026 |
| Action for Children | 3 | 2.9% | 1 | 6 | 25 Mar 2026 |
| Direct Care Service Limited | 3 | 2.9% | 1 | 3 | 30 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.
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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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| Care Home for Adults with Learning Disabilities | Livingston Homereach | — | — | £3,980,000 † |
| Care Home for Adults with Learning Disabilities | Livingston Homereach | — | — | £3,980,000 † |
| Community Link Worker and Distress Brief Intervention Services | SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) | — | — | £3,172,000 † |
| Information and Advice for Unpaid Carers and People with Disabilities | Carers of West Lothian | — | — | £2,200,000 † |
| RAAC works to Domestic Properties in West Lothian | Ailsa Building Contractors Ltd | — | — | £2,058,938 † |
Contracts endingi
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.
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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
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| CC13701 - Early Learning and Childcare Funded Placements with Private ELC Providers Re Opening of Framework CC13109 | ABC Private Nursery, ABC Tots ltd, Angela Elizabeth Nursery +23 | 7 Aug 2027 | £2,234,488 |
| CC13701 - Early Learning and Childcare Funded Placements with Private ELC Providers Re Opening of Framework CC13109 | Early Steps Nursery, First Steps Playgroup, Giggles and More Ltd +4 | 7 Aug 2027 | £2,000,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 143 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| CC13997 - x4 6x4 Artic UnitsVehicle bodies | Awarded / complete | 14 Oct 2025 | — |
| CC14168 - Windows and Doors Framework Call-Off 2025-28Installation of doors and windows | Awarded / complete | 13 Oct 2025 | — |
| WLC Property and void cleaning and environmental works frameworkAccommodation cleaning services | Awarded / complete | 21 Aug 2025 | £1,200,000 |
| Asbestos Services FrameworkAsbestos removal services | Awarded / complete | 25 Jul 2025 | £12,000,000 |
| Removals and Storage Framework AgreementStorage and warehousing services | Awarded / complete | 24 Jul 2025 | — |
| Monitoring of Cathodic Protection SystemsBridge-inspection services | Cancelled | 6 Jun 2025 | £245,000 |
| CC14214 - Early Learning and Childcare - Re-opening of Framework CC13109Pre-school education services | Open | 16 May 2025 | — |
| Community Link Worker and Distress Brief Intervention ServicesHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 30 Apr 2025 | £3,171,670 |
| Hybrid, Bulk and Digital Mail ServicesElectronic mail service provider | Awarded / complete | 29 Apr 2025 | — |
| Printing and Associated ServicesDigital printing services | Awarded / complete | 25 Apr 2025 | — |
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.
Canonical page id: GB-FTS-1335