Blackburn With Darwen Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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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 25 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.
125 awarded tenders, 131 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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| DPS for Home To School Transport | 20 Apr 2027 | 173d | £3,500,000 |
| DPS for Special Education Needs Transport 2014 to 2018 | 10 Feb 2028 | 469d | £7,000,000 |
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 services23 procedures · 19%45 Construction work9 procedures · 7%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental4 procedures · 3%98 Other community, social and personal services4 procedures · 3%34 Transport equipment and products3 procedures · 2%71 Architectural, construction, engineering3 procedures · 2%77 Agricultural, forestry, horticultural services3 procedures · 2%42 Industrial machinery2 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 · 124 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.
Contract87%(108 notices)
108 of 124 notices are Contract (87%).Framework13%(16 notices)
16 of 124 notices are Framework (13%).
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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.
Limited / restricted37%(46 notices)
46 of 124 notices are Limited / restricted (37%).Open31%(38 notices)
38 of 124 notices are Open (31%).Direct award22%(27 notices)
27 of 124 notices are Direct award (22%).Route not published10%(12 notices)
12 of 124 notices are Route not published (10%).Selective1%(1 notice)
1 of 124 notices is Selective (1%).
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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 25 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 12 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 124 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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| Multevo ltd | 4 | 3.2% | 2 | 4 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| Gables UK Limited | 3 | 2.4% | 3 | 3 | — |
| Bethell Construction Ltd | 3 | 2.4% | 2 | 3 | — |
| ARC4 LIMITED | 2 | 1.6% | 2 | 2 | — |
| LANCASHIRE GAS SERVICES LIMITED | 2 | 1.6% | 2 | 2 | — |
| 1st Base Plant Hire Ltd | 2 | 1.6% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Altitude Services Limited | 2 | 1.6% | 2 | 2 | — |
| George Cox & Sons Limited | 2 | 1.6% | 2 | 2 | 1 Sept 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 125 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 131 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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| BwD Alcohol and Drugs Misuse Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Service | CHANGE, GROW, LIVE | 9 Oct 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5.5 yrs | £21,175,000 ≈ £7.1m/yr |
| Lot 2- Extra Care | Guardian homecare UK Ltd | 6 Mar 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £11,500,000 ≈ £3.8m/yr |
| Concession Contract for Local Electrical Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Installation, Operation and Maintenance | Connected Kerb Limited | — | — | £10,000,000 † |
| BwDBC Waste Contracts 2026 | The Recycling Partnership Ltd | 24 Mar 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £9,000,000 ≈ £3.0m/yr |
| Lot 1- Extra Care | Housing 21 | 6 Mar 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £5,800,000 ≈ £1.9m/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.
123 of 141 contracts carry an end date, 15 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Housing Needs Assessment | ARC4 LIMITED | 7 Nov 2026 | £26,000 |
| Volume grass cutting across Blackburn with Darwen | Grounds, Gardens & Trees Ltd | 30 Nov 2026 | £165,000 |
| Cutting of rural verges and hedges across Blackburn with Darwen | Ribble Limited | 30 Nov 2026 | £12,000 |
| Cutting of highway verges on the A6119 | Grounds, Gardens & Trees Ltd | 30 Nov 2026 | £33,000 |
| procurement of a strength-based model / framework | OLM Systems Ltd | 30 Nov 2026 | £80,000 |
| Educational Psychologist | Precision Resource Group Limited | 30 Nov 2026 | £102,000 |
| Griifin Park Primary School Roofing | FRS Roofing Services Ltd | 18 Dec 2026 | £327,371 |
| The Provision of renovations of Cricket Wickets at Pleasington Playing Fields for Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council | Origin Amenity Solutions | 20 Dec 2026 | £37,700 |
| Consultancy Services - Roof Repair Scheme - Albion Mill, Blackburn | Faithful+Gould | 31 Dec 2026 | £86,755 |
| Provision of 1 7.5T Tipper | North West Truck Services Ltd | 31 Dec 2026 | £80,550 |
Soonest 10 of 41 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 173 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. 123 of 141 published contracts have an end date; 15 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.