Scotland: Public Sector Tenders, Buyers & Winners
ITL-1 UKM·buyer region: where the buying organisation is based·270 authorities bought here in the last 12 months·100% of catalogue notices have a buyer with a known UK region
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Tenders you can still bid for with work in this region.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed that publish this region as a place of delivery, or the whole UK. The same set the search shows for the region, whoever the buyer is.
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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 for a lot here.
The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 2,319 lots from 1,643 competitions, last 36 months. UK-wide middle value: 4. 33 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 2,286 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).
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What a contract here is usually worth.
Middle value of published award values, VAT excluded. Framework ceilings are left out because they are not real contract values.
Based on 3,339 awards with a usable value, last 36 months.
Published values, not actual spend.
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How much work here goes to companies based in the region.
Contract awards where the winner’s registered address is in this region, out of awards where the address is known.
1,633 of 2,305 awards where the winner’s address is known, last 36 months.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
Newest open tenders
From buyers based in the region · newest first
| Notice | Authority | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Framework Agreement - Standards and Frameworks | Skills Development Scotland Ltd | 27 Nov 2026 | 34d | £3,600,000 ceiling |
| Commercial & Domestic Boilers maintenance Services | University of Stirling | 27 Nov 2026 | 34d | — |
| Shire Housing - Insurance Contract & Services | Shire Housing Association C/o Howden UK Insurance Brokers Ltd | 15 Jan 2027 | 83d | £236,637 |
See all 701 open tenders deliverable here, UK-wide included →
The Scotland market
Scottish Government, NHS Scotland, 32 Unitary Councils, and Public Contracts Scotland (PCS)
Procurement in Scotland operates under the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 alongside UK-wide frameworks. Primary spend categories include NHS National Services Scotland (NSS), Scottish Water, local council social services, and education institutions.
Main centres: Edinburgh · Glasgow · Aberdeen · Dundee · Inverness.
Who buys herei
Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
All notices of buyers based in the region · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies are central government authorities), else derived from the authority name · a national body counts where its office is
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What kinds of public bodies buy here.
Notices by the buyer’s type as published, otherwise by its name.
Local authorities31%(3,761 notices)
3,761 of 12,202 notices are Local authorities (31%).NHS & health14%(1,670 notices)
1,670 of 12,202 notices are NHS & health (14%).Education & universities13%(1,557 notices)
1,557 of 12,202 notices are Education & universities (13%).Central government9%(1,145 notices)
1,145 of 12,202 notices are Central government (9%).Housing associations6%(702 notices)
702 of 12,202 notices are Housing associations (6%).Not classified28%(3,367 notices)
3,367 of 12,202 notices are Not classified (28%).
| Contracting authority | Type | Notices | Last 12 months | Open now |
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| Scottish Government | Central government | 537 | 73 | 10 |
| The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS") | NHS & health | 466 | 1 | 2 |
| University of Glasgow | Education & universities | 319 | 48 | 1 |
| The City of Edinburgh Council | Local authorities | 315 | 43 | 0 |
| University Of Edinburgh | Education & universities | 293 | 71 | 0 |
| The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (NSS) | NHS & health | 292 | 49 | 1 |
| University of Strathclyde | Education & universities | 261 | 76 | 1 |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | NHS & health | 243 | 38 | 4 |
| South Ayrshire Council | Local authorities | 233 | 29 | 3 |
| Fife Council | Local authorities | 224 | 37 | 0 |
605 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.
What is bought herei
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.
CPV divisions of the notices of buyers in the region · 12,495 of 12,495 carry a CPV code · a notice with several codes counts in each
85 Health & Social Care1,160 notices · 9% · 22 open79 Business Services & Consultancy1,144 notices · 9% · 12 open45 Construction & Civil Engineering1,077 notices · 9% · 17 open50 Repair & Maintenance1,033 notices · 8% · 14 open72 IT Services & Software940 notices · 8% · 6 open71 Architecture & Engineering919 notices · 7% · 11 open33 Medical Devices & Pharma734 notices · 6% · 7 open90 Cleaning & Environmental Services570 notices · 5% · 10 open80 Education & Training471 notices · 4% · 9 open60 Transport & Passenger Services394 notices · 3% · 7 openHow it is boughti
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.
Commercial tool, procedure route and threshold 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.
Contract75%(9,345 notices)
9,345 of 12,495 notices are Contract (75%).Framework24%(2,951 notices)
2,951 of 12,495 notices are Framework (24%).Dynamic purchasing system2%(199 notices)
199 of 12,495 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (2%).
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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.
Open55%(6,905 notices)
6,905 of 12,495 notices are Open (55%).Limited / restricted18%(2,192 notices)
2,192 of 12,495 notices are Limited / restricted (18%).Route not published15%(1,882 notices)
1,882 of 12,495 notices are Route not published (15%).Selective11%(1,426 notices)
1,426 of 12,495 notices are Selective (11%).Direct award1%(90 notices)
90 of 12,495 notices are Direct award (1%).
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How much of this market is above the legal threshold.
Notices by whether the buyer marked them above or below the threshold that triggers the full rules.
Above threshold51%(63 notices)
63 of 123 notices are Above threshold (51%).Below threshold49%(60 notices)
60 of 123 notices are Below threshold (49%).
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How long bidders get to respond.
Middle value in days from the tender notice to its deadline.
Competition
Contracts published in the last 36 months (3,827) · bid counts per lot from award notices · values are net contract awards, framework and DPS ceilings excluded · SME status as declared
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid19%(443)
443 of 2,319 lots fall in 1 bid (19%).2–335%(808)
808 of 2,319 lots fall in 2–3 (35%).4–627%(627)
627 of 2,319 lots fall in 4–6 (27%).7 or more19%(441)
441 of 2,319 lots fall in 7 or more (19%).
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The usual range of contract values here.
The middle half of published award values, VAT excluded, with the middle value marked. Framework ceilings are left out.
Published values, not actual spend.
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How many companies usually bid for a lot here.
The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 2,319 lots from 1,643 competitions, last 36 months. UK-wide middle value: 4. 33 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 2,286 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).
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How much of this market is actually put out to competition.
Notices run as an open or selective procedure, out of all notices that say which procedure was used. Direct awards count as not competed.
2,619 of 3,727 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 100 more give no procedure and are left out.
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What share of bids come from small and medium firms.
SME bids divided by all bids, on lots where the buyer published the split.
7,263 SME bids out of 9,905, on 2,308 lots where the buyer published the split.
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What share of contracts go to small and medium firms.
Awards to a single supplier that declared its size. SME divided by all.
2,110 of 3,516 awards where the winner declared its size.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Based on 37 decided competitions, last 36 months.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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Do winners come in above or below the buyer’s estimate.
For each lot we compare the published estimate with the award, like for like. Below means the winner was paid less than estimated, above means more.
Based on 770 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 36 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How often a tender ends with no award.
Notices cancelled, withdrawn or marked unsuccessful, plus terminated ones that never got an award.
272 of 3,827 notices, last 36 months.
Only what buyers published. Tenders that quietly went nowhere are not counted.
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How many companies apply to get onto a framework or DPS here.
Middle value per lot, frameworks and dynamic markets only. Getting onto a panel is not the same as winning work, so it is kept separate.
Based on 2,597 lots from 725 framework and DPS notices, last 36 months.
Who wins here, and where fromi
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.
Two populations, labelled per element: the table ranks suppliers by distinct procedures won (frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems included, all retained years) and shows award records, every single-supplier award on notices of buyers in the region (11,463 awards to 5,332 suppliers). The origin bars and the shares beside them count contract awards of the last 36 months, the five most frequent winners hold 3% of those.
| Supplier | Procedures | Awards | Last 12 months | Buyers |
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| Caledonian Maintenance Services Ltd | 31 | 33 | 10 | 23 |
| SPIE Scotshield Limited | 23 | 27 | 2 | 16 |
| Softcat Plc | 23 | 25 | 8 | 13 |
| BELL GROUP LTD | 19 | 22 | 2 | 15 |
| c/o SPT | 19 | 19 | 4 | 1 |
| Marsh Ltd | 18 | 39 | 22 | 14 |
| City Technical Services UK Ltd | 18 | 18 | 1 | 17 |
| Valley Group Limited | 17 | 27 | 3 | 12 |
All single-supplier awards (frameworks and DPS panel appointments included) across all retained years; the eight most frequent winners shown.
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How much work here goes to companies based in the region.
Contract awards where the winner’s registered address is in this region, out of awards where the address is known.
1,633 of 2,305 awards where the winner’s address is known, last 36 months.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
Winner’s registered region known for 2,305 of 3,948 contract awards in the last 36 months; the 1,643 without one are excluded from the bars.
Where to submiti
Where bids for this work are submitted.
Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.
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Where bids for this work are submitted.
Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.
E-sourcing portals named in the submission address · 7,080 of 12,495 notices name one · each portal page explains registration
Open tenders from buyers in Scotland
Open for bids now, from buyers based in the region · soonest deadline first
All 701 open tenders deliverable in Scotland, UK-wide notices included →
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.
- How we count regions. A notice belongs to the region of the organisation that buys: the office address on its buyer profile, placed by the official ONS postcode lookup, and where one organisation published under several accounts, the address of its current profile. Each notice counts once, so the regions add up. A national body counts where its office is, so London includes government departments that buy for the whole country. Where the work is delivered is a separate fact: every tender page shows the place of delivery exactly as the notice publishes it, UK-wide included, and search filters by it. 959 of 213,552 notices come from a buyer without a known UK region and belong to none.
- What counts here. Every notice of a buyer based in Scotland. To find work you can deliver here, including national notices from buyers elsewhere, search by delivery region. Notices from 2021 to 23 Oct 2026.
- Competition. Bids and winners cover the last three years and count each lot as its own contest; frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems are shown apart from ordinary contracts.
- Won locally. A contract counts as won locally when the winner’s registered address is in the same region. That address is usually a head office, so a national firm with a local branch reads as non-local.
- Why no total spend. Notice estimates often repeat a framework’s ceiling, so adding them up would overstate the market. Typical contract values are shown instead.
- 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.