Ards and North Down Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Northern Ireland·Bangor
Official UK PPONPTTZ-3295-PYCW
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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 37 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.
53 awarded tenders, 85 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Tender for the Provision of Legal Services | 28 Oct 2026 | 17h | £1,785,000 |
| Tender to Establish a Framework for the Supply and Delivery of Various Containers at Household Recycling Centres | 9 Nov 2026 | 12d | £220,000 |
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting9 procedures · 31% · 1 open98 Other community, social and personal services7 procedures · 24%45 Construction work6 procedures · 21%71 Architectural, construction, engineering4 procedures · 14%75 Administration, defence and social security4 procedures · 14%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental4 procedures · 14%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting4 procedures · 14%50 Repair and maintenance services3 procedures · 10%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 · 29 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.
Contract97%(28 notices)
28 of 29 notices are Contract (97%).Framework3%(1 notice)
1 of 29 notices is Framework (3%).
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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.
Open52%(15 notices)
15 of 29 notices are Open (52%).Route not published24%(7 notices)
7 of 29 notices are Route not published (24%).Selective14%(4 notices)
4 of 29 notices are Selective (14%).Direct award7%(2 notices)
2 of 29 notices are Direct award (7%).Limited / restricted3%(1 notice)
1 of 29 notices is Limited / restricted (3%).
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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 37 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 11 decided tenders across all categories, 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 29 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 13 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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| R. HEATRICK LTD | 4 | 7.5% | 1 | 9 | — |
| COMMUNITY ADVICE ARDS AND NORTH DOWN LIMITED | 3 | 5.7% | 2 | 4 | 12 Mar 2026 |
| John McQuillan Contracts Ltd | 3 | 5.7% | 1 | 3 | — |
| KID RAPT LIMITED | 2 | 3.8% | 1 | 21 | — |
| NORTHSIDE GRAPHICS LTD | 2 | 3.8% | 1 | 4 | 1 May 2026 |
| Boatfolk Marinas Limited | 2 | 3.8% | 1 | 3 | 21 Nov 2025 |
| G P S COLOUR GRAPHICS LTD | 2 | 3.8% | 1 | 2 | 1 May 2026 |
| JOHNSTON GILPIN CO | 2 | 3.8% | 0 | 4 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 15% of 53 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 85 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 published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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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| ANDBC Pre-Qualification Questionnaire - Works Contract for Redevelopment of Ward Park, Bangor | John McQuillan Contracts Ltd | — | — | £2,274,628 † |
| Lot 2 - Southern | Play and Leisure Services Ltd | 19 Mar 2026 | 2 yrs · up to 5.1 yrs | £2,250,000 ≈ £1.1m/yr |
| ANDBC Tender for the Provision of Advice Services | COMMUNITY ADVICE ARDS AND NORTH DOWN LIMITED | 12 Mar 2026 | 2 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £1,469,586 ≈ £735k/yr |
| Contract | AECOM LIMITED | — | — | £1,268,500 † |
| ANDBC Tender for the Provision of Council Advertising Services (Recruitment, Public Notices and Tenders) | ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTD | 24 Oct 2025 | 2 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £462,500 ≈ £231k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
110 of 128 contracts carry an end date, 93 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Contract | McAdam Design | 3 Dec 2026 estimated | £764,618 |
| 1 | AJCG Ltd, AJCG Ltd | 31 Dec 2026 | £137,484 |
| 1 | Lighthouse N.I. Ltd, Lighthouse N.I. Ltd | 16 Jan 2027 | £225,600 |
| ANDBC Pre-Qualification Questionnaire - Works Contract for Redevelopment of Ward Park, Bangor | John McQuillan Contracts Ltd | 15 Mar 2027 estimated | £2,274,628 |
| Lot 1. Employers and Public Liability | INTACT INSURANCE IRELAND DAC UK BRANCH | 31 Mar 2027 | £227,761 |
| Lot 2 Crime | INTACT INSURANCE IRELAND DAC UK BRANCH | 31 Mar 2027 | £13,295 |
| Lot 3 Legal Expenses - Councillors Code of Conduct | DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Co. Ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £1,880 |
| Lot 4. Museum, Fine Art and Exhibitions | Risk Management Partners Ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £5,238 |
| 1 | ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTD, ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTD | 5 Nov 2027 | £462,500 |
| 1 | COMMUNITY ADVICE ARDS AND NORTH DOWN LIMITED, COMMUNITY ADVICE ARDS AND NORTH DOWN LIMITED | 31 Mar 2028 | £1,469,586 |
Soonest 10 of 12 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 72 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
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.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 110 of 128 published contracts have an end date; 93 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar.
- 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.