Belfast City Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Northern Ireland·Belfast
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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 72 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.
155 awarded tenders, 344 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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| MTC for repairs & maintenance of CCTV, door access & PA systems | 16 Nov 2026 | 19d | £400,000 |
| Belfast Stories – Story Engine | 23 Nov 2026 | 26d | £550,000 |
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, consulting26 procedures · 26%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting13 procedures · 13% · 1 open80 Education and training services13 procedures · 13%45 Construction work11 procedures · 11%71 Architectural, construction, engineering9 procedures · 9%75 Administration, defence and social security8 procedures · 8%98 Other community, social and personal services8 procedures · 8%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet7 procedures · 7% · 1 openHow 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 · 99 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.
Contract92%(91 notices)
91 of 99 notices are Contract (92%).Framework7%(7 notices)
7 of 99 notices are Framework (7%).Dynamic purchasing system1%(1 notice)
1 of 99 notices is Dynamic purchasing system (1%).
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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.
Open66%(65 notices)
65 of 99 notices are Open (66%).Route not published22%(22 notices)
22 of 99 notices are Route not published (22%).Selective8%(8 notices)
8 of 99 notices are Selective (8%).Direct award2%(2 notices)
2 of 99 notices are Direct award (2%).Limited / restricted2%(2 notices)
2 of 99 notices are Limited / restricted (2%).
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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 72 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 36 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 99 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 24 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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| Avenue Recycling Ltd | 5 | 3.2% | 2 | 6 | 22 Dec 2025 |
| GEMS NI Ltd | 5 | 3.2% | 1 | 5 | 2 Oct 2026 |
| WJM Building Services Ltd | 4 | 2.6% | 2 | 4 | 6 Oct 2025 |
| DFPF Ltd t/a People 1st | 4 | 2.6% | 0 | 7 | — |
| MayWe Events Ltd | 3 | 1.9% | 3 | 4 | 28 Apr 2026 |
| John McQuillan Contracts Ltd | 3 | 1.9% | 3 | 3 | 22 May 2026 |
| Sunbelt Rentals Ltd | 3 | 1.9% | 2 | 3 | 30 Oct 2025 |
| Ashton Community Trust | 3 | 1.9% | 2 | 3 | 2 Oct 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 9% of 155 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 344 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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| Supply of Electricity - Lots 1 & 2 | 3t Power Ltd | — | — | £20,500,000 † |
| T2656 - Provision of Skip and Hook Lift Service and Hire of Skips | Avenue Recycling Ltd | 22 Dec 2025 | 2.9 yrs · up to 4.9 yrs | £6,000,000 ≈ £2.1m/yr |
| Main Contractor for Cathedral Gardens (& Blitz Memorial) | John McQuillan Contracts Ltd | 24 Sept 2025 | 1 yrs | £3,257,922 ≈ £3.3m/yr |
| T2607 - Receipt, Stock Control and Delivery of Waste Containers | Avenue Recycling Ltd | 14 Aug 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £2,540,000 ≈ £847k/yr |
| T2519 Provision of a Christmas Lighting Scheme | The Festive Lighting Co Ltd | — | — | £2,000,000 † |
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.
204 of 485 contracts carry an end date, 122 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Lot 2 – Event stewarding services | Eventsec Ltd | 31 Oct 2026 | £500,000 |
| Lot 3 – Key holding services | Cobra Specialist Security Services | 31 Oct 2026 | £150,000 |
| Lot 4 – Mobile stewarding/ patrolling services | Cobra Specialist Security Services | 31 Oct 2026 | £250,000 |
| MTC for BEMS systems | ATC Systems Limited | 2 Nov 2026 estimated | £140,466 |
| Lot 1 – Manned security guarding services | Bidvest Noonan (UK) Limited | 30 Nov 2026 | £1,700,000 |
| T2443 Collection and Treatment of Paints and Varnishes | Irish Waste Services | 23 Dec 2026 estimated | £1,000,000 |
| T2738 – Provision of a Fully Integrated Waste Management Service for Litter Bin waste at Fleadh Cheoil na h'Eireann | John McQuillan Contracts Ltd | 31 Dec 2026 | £400,000 |
| Supply, Delivery and Installation of Summer Plants | Hannas Nurseries | 21 Jan 2027 estimated | £250,000 |
| T2695 Medical Services and First Aid for Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann | St John Ambulance Service NI | 9 Feb 2027 | £700,000 |
Soonest 9 of 60 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 231 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. 204 of 485 published contracts have an end date; 122 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.