Bedford Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Official UK PPONPLCV-4616-VTHL
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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 13 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.
195 awarded tenders, 227 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
3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highway Grass Verge and Hedge Cutting, Rights of Way - Seasonal Vegetation cuts, Suds and Watercourse Maintenance | 28 Oct 2026 | 30h | £1,835,886 |
| Pseudo-DPS for Alternative Education Provision (AP) 2024 - 2027 | 28 Apr 2027 | 183d | £2,150,000 |
| Best Interest Assessors and Section 12 Assessors Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) | 15 Jul 2028 | 627d | £1,684,000 |
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
85 Health and social work services25 procedures · 13%45 Construction work10 procedures · 5% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting7 procedures · 4%70 Real estate services5 procedures · 3%71 Architectural, construction, engineering5 procedures · 3%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet5 procedures · 3%98 Other community, social and personal services5 procedures · 3%34 Transport equipment and products4 procedures · 2%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 · 196 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.
Contract93%(183 notices)
183 of 196 notices are Contract (93%).Framework7%(13 notices)
13 of 196 notices are Framework (7%).
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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.
Direct award48%(94 notices)
94 of 196 notices are Direct award (48%).Route not published20%(39 notices)
39 of 196 notices are Route not published (20%).Open18%(35 notices)
35 of 196 notices are Open (18%).Limited / restricted12%(23 notices)
23 of 196 notices are Limited / restricted (12%).Selective3%(5 notices)
5 of 196 notices are Selective (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 13 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 17 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 196 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 6 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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| SMART CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES | 9 | 4.6% | 6 | 10 | — |
| Beam Up Ltd | 3 | 1.5% | 3 | 3 | — |
| Canoe Trail Ltd | 3 | 1.5% | 3 | 3 | 8 Jun 2026 |
| Webcurl Limited | 3 | 1.5% | 3 | 3 | 18 Sept 2025 |
| THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION GROUP LIMITED | 2 | 1% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Chiltern Hire Centre Ltd | 2 | 1% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Ross Removals | 2 | 1% | 2 | 2 | 1 Jul 2025 |
| Bedford and District Citizens Advice Bureau | 2 | 1% | 2 | 2 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 195 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 227 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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| The Supply of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure and Associated Services 2026-2041 | Connected Kerb Limited | — | — | £56,643,544 † |
| Carriageway Resurfacing and Associated Works 2025-2030 | Hanson Quarry Products Europe Ltd | — | — | £30,000,000 † |
| Rough Sleeping Prevention Services | SMART CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES | — | 6 mo | £12,985,653 † |
| Temporary Accommodation Maintenance Services | HCR Ltd | 27 Oct 2025 | 4 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £7,000,000 ≈ £1.8m/yr |
| Provision of Rural Public Transport Services 2025-30 | Cambus Ltd T/A | — | — | £3,875,103 † |
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.
165 of 205 contracts carry an end date, 13 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Construction of Costa Coffee Drive-Thru at Fairhill | Brownhill Hayward Brown, Chartered Architects (BHB) | 1 Nov 2026 | £65,125 |
| Lifestyle Hub Services | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust Foundation | 11 Nov 2026 | £87,623 |
| Residential Placement (Spot Off Framework) | SV Care Services Ltd | 14 Nov 2026 | £507,000 |
| Residential (Spot) Placement - Childrens Services | Positive Futures Support Care Limited | 5 Dec 2026 | £550,000 |
| IFA placement for Children's Services Case | Barnardo Services Limited | 19 Dec 2026 | £100,839 |
| Childrens Home (Spot Non Framework) | OUTBOUND CARE LTD | 29 Dec 2026 | £468,000 |
| Semi-Independent Placement | PSA Care Ltd | 15 Jan 2027 | £63,000 |
| Fire Alarm Systems, Emergency Lighting - Planned Preventative Maintenance and Reactive Repairs | Ace Fire & Security Systems Ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £354,869 |
| Mechanical Plant Planned Preventative Maintenance for Lifts | GSH Facilities Management Limited | 31 Mar 2027 | £485,000 |
| Online training and research resource for practitioners in Children's Services | NCB RiP | 31 Mar 2027 | £26,010 |
Soonest 10 of 35 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 254 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. 165 of 205 published contracts have an end date; 13 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.