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Collection, Storage and Redelivery of Household Belongings 2025

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BuyerThe Highland Council
StatusClosed
Deadline8 Dec 2025
ValueValue not published
Published6 Nov 2025

What is being bought

The Highland Council, Aberdeenshire Council and Aberdeen City Council are inviting tenders for The Collection, Storage and Redelivery of Household Belongings, for a 3-year period, with an option to extend by a further period of up to 12 months. Each Council require a Contractor to provide a removal, transfer and storage of belongings service to be determined and notified by each Council, in accordance with Health and Safety Regulations and all associated standards. The Contractor shall also provide short and long-term storage solutions, often for an unspecified amount of time.

Delivery location

UKM6 · UKM50 · UKM50

Categories

Storage units 39173000Storage bins 44614100Container storage system 44614300Storage and warehousing services 63120000Storage and retrieval services 63121000Storage services 63121100Storage and warehousing services 63120000

Lot details

The Highland Council

The Highland Council, Aberdeenshire Council and Aberdeen City Council are inviting tenders for The Collection, Storage and Redelivery of Household Belongings, for a 3-year period, with an option to extend by a further period of up to 12 months. Each Council require a Contractor to provide a removal, transfer and storage of belongings service to be determined and notified by each Council, in accordance with Health and Safety Regulations and all associated standards. The Contractor shall also provide short and long-term storage solutions, often for an unspecified amount of time. Tenderers shall be free to tender for 1 Council, 2 Councils or all 3 Councils. Any follow-on Contract will be individual to each Council. The Framework Agreement is anticipated to commence on 01/02/2026 for Aberdeenshire and The Highland Council. Aberdeen City Council’s Framework Agreement will commence on the 1st April 2026.

Statusactive

Award criteria
Quality — 60
price — 40

Aberdeenshire Council

Aberdeenshire Council, The Highland Council, and Aberdeen City Council are inviting tenders for The Collection, Storage and Redelivery of Household Belongings, for a 3-year period, with an option to extend by a further period of up to 12 months. Each Council require a Contractor to provide a removal, transfer and storage of belongings service to be determined and notified by each Council, in accordance with Health and Safety Regulations and all associated standards. The Contractor shall also provide short and long-term storage solutions, often for an unspecified amount of time. Tenderers shall be free to tender for 1 Council, 2 Councils or all 3 Councils. Any follow-on Contract will be individual to each Council. The Framework Agreement is anticipated to commence on 01/02/2026 for Aberdeenshire and The Highland Council. Aberdeen City Council’s Framework Agreement will commence on the 1st April 2026.

Statusactive

Award criteria
Quality — 60
price — 40

Aberdeen City Council

Aberdeen City Council, The Highland Council and Aberdeenshire Council and are inviting tenders for The Collection, Storage and Redelivery of Household Belongings, for a 3-year period, with an option to extend by a further period of up to 12 months. Each Council require a Contractor to provide a removal, transfer and storage of belongings service to be determined and notified by each Council, in accordance with Health and Safety Regulations and all associated standards. The Contractor shall also provide short and long-term storage solutions, often for an unspecified amount of time. Tenderers shall be free to tender for 1 Council, 2 Councils or all 3 Councils. Any follow-on Contract will be individual to each Council. The Framework Agreement is anticipated to commence on 01/02/2026 for Aberdeenshire and The Highland Council. Aberdeen City Council’s Framework Agreement will commence on the 1st April 2026.

Statusactive

Award criteria
Quality — 60
price — 40

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Storage units, Storage bins, Container storage system, Storage and warehousing services, Storage and retrieval services, Storage servicesNot published
2Storage units, Container storage system, Storage and retrieval services, Storage and warehousing services, Storage services, Storage binsNot published
3Storage units, Storage bins, Container storage system, Storage and warehousing services, Storage and retrieval services, Storage servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 39. The category anchor is Storage units (39173000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 391,2655 median · 53.1 average (470 of 1,265 with a bid count)5.7 average (499 of 1,265 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKM652.5 median · 2.5 average (2 of 5 with a bid count)1 average (2 of 5 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNo
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaeconomic, technical
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05dc37
Latest release ID071793-2025
Latest release timestampThu Nov 06 2025 16:48:20 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-12-08T12:00:00Z
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: start2025-12-08T12:00:00Z
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source3
Tender items in source3
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release4

Notice history

DateEventReference
6 Nov 2025tender071793-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
6 Nov 2025 · 071793-2025 · tender
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