Historic Environment Scotland: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ScotlandEdinburghCentral purchasing body on 14 of 45 notices

Find a Tender organisation id1169Websitehistoricenvironment.scot ↗

Open now3next deadline 11 Nov 2026
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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.

Notices, last 12 months30+100% vs prior 12 months (15)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot36.5% single-bid · 31 bid reports
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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 31 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share12%of 99 awarded procedures · 102 suppliers
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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.

99 awarded tenders, 102 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months3721 within 6 months · 35 estimated
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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.

Published award value, 24m£9.3mnet · on 43 of 43 published values · top 5 = 61%
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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

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Membership Day to Day Mailing Services11 Nov 202614d—

All 3 open notices for this authority →

What they buy
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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

How they buy
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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 · 45 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract93%(42 notices)
    42 of 45 notices are Contract (93%).
  • Framework7%(3 notices)
    3 of 45 notices are Framework (7%).
Procedure route
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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.

  • Open69%(31 notices)
    31 of 45 notices are Open (69%).
  • Limited / restricted24%(11 notices)
    11 of 45 notices are Limited / restricted (24%).
  • Route not published4%(2 notices)
    2 of 45 notices are Route not published (4%).
  • Selective2%(1 notice)
    1 of 45 notices is Selective (2%).
Typical bids per lot
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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 31 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3robust · n=316.5% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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 45 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

123 of 45 notices amended

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Nurture Landscapes Ltd55.1%45—
AOC Archaeology44%14—
Leica Geosystems33%17—
City Access Scaffolding Ltd33%16—
Hartech Automation Limited22%24—
GeoToolBox Iberica S.L.22%14—
Select Drams Ltd22%13—
Own Label Company Scotland Ltd22%12—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 12% of 99 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 102 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£9.3mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 43 of 43 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 61%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£49k middle valuerobust · n=43Middle half £34k–£199k.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Retail SystemREPLY LIMITED——£1,507,530 †
Historic Environment Scotland branded WhiskyOwn Label Company Scotland Ltd——£1,250,000 †
LiqueurHemisphere Brands Ltd.——£1,250,000 †
Ticketing SystemVentrata——£1,248,280 †
Provision of Scanning Equipment MaintenanceLeica Geosystems——£445,000 †

Contracts ending
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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.

117 of 154 contracts carry an end date, 113 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Soonest 7 of 37 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 126 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Graphic Design of GuidebooksGraphic design servicesOpen23 Sept 2026—
Minor Archaeological Services Call-Off Contractcentral purchasing bodyArchaeological servicesOpen25 Sept 2026£480,000
Association of Leading Visitor Attractions Benchmarking SurveyMarket research servicesAwarded / complete21 Oct 2026—
Completion of Commissioned Archaeological ProjectsArchaeological servicesAwarded / complete21 Oct 2026—
Provision of Scanning Equipment Maintenance Servicescentral purchasing bodyRepair and maintenance services of precision equipmentAwarded / complete20 Oct 2026—
Environmental Impact of Harvesting MarramResearch servicesAwarded / complete30 Sept 2026—
Support and Maintenance of AV EquipmentRepairAwarded / complete16 Sept 2026—
Supply and Support of Automated Film Scannerscentral purchasing bodyLaboratoryAwarded / complete9 Sept 2026—
Provision of Scanning Equipment Maintenancecentral purchasing bodyRepair and maintenance services of precision equipmentAwarded / complete9 Sept 2026—
Heritage Training Course Instructional Designcentral purchasing bodyE-learning servicesAwarded / complete25 Aug 2026£190,000
Fire Engineering Consultant ServicesFrameworkcentral purchasing bodyFire-prevention servicesOpen12 Aug 2026£520,000
Painting Services for Edinburgh and Stirling Regions2 lotsPreservation services of historical buildingsOpen29 Jul 2026—
Underwater ArchaeologyArchaeological servicesAwarded / complete27 Jul 2026—
Ecology SurveysEnvironmental servicesOpen20 Jul 2026—
Scaffolding Services in North Region5 lotsPreservation services of historical buildingsAwarded / complete25 Jun 2026—
Trinity House Community Learning ProgrammeEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete23 Jun 2026—
Provision of Maeshowe Shuttle Bus Servicecentral purchasing bodyHire of buses and coaches with driverAwarded / complete22 Jun 2026£300,000
Grounds Maintenance StirlingGrounds maintenance servicesAwarded / complete17 Jun 2026—
Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian AnalysisArchaeological servicesOpen8 Jun 2026—
Waste Management Broker ServicesRefuse and waste related servicesPlanned1 Jun 2026—

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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. 117 of 154 published contracts have an end date; 113 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.