Northern Lighthouse Board: 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 24 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.
57 awarded tenders, 44 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.
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
45 Construction work29 procedures · 45%34 Transport equipment and products12 procedures · 18%31 Electrical machinery7 procedures · 11%71 Architectural, construction, engineering6 procedures · 9%42 Industrial machinery4 procedures · 6%44 Construction structures and materials4 procedures · 6%63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel4 procedures · 6%50 Repair and maintenance services3 procedures · 5%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 · 65 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.
Contract94%(61 notices)
61 of 65 notices are Contract (94%).Framework6%(4 notices)
4 of 65 notices are Framework (6%).
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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%(45 notices)
45 of 65 notices are Open (69%).Route not published14%(9 notices)
9 of 65 notices are Route not published (14%).Limited / restricted11%(7 notices)
7 of 65 notices are Limited / restricted (11%).Direct award6%(4 notices)
4 of 65 notices are Direct award (6%).
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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 24 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 24 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 65 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 20 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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| Trac HLM Ltd | 7 | 12.3% | 7 | 7 | 22 Apr 2026 |
| Accted Ltd | 3 | 5.3% | 3 | 3 | 23 Jun 2026 |
| Mrs J C Altham & Sons (Lancaster) Limited | 2 | 3.5% | 2 | 2 | 8 Sept 2025 |
| Accted Engineering | 2 | 3.5% | 2 | 2 | 5 Sept 2025 |
| Dart Industrial Services Limited | 2 | 3.5% | 2 | 2 | 3 Jun 2026 |
| MP&E Trading Co Ltd. T/A EMR Integrated Solutions | 2 | 3.5% | 2 | 2 | — |
| PLM Dollar Group Ltd (trading as PDG Aviation Services) | 2 | 3.5% | 0 | 2 | — |
| Fire Protection Group (FPG) Ltd | 2 | 3.5% | 0 | 2 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 21% of 57 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 44 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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| TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF SOLAR PANELS FOR THE GENERAL LIGHTHOUSE AUTHORITIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND REFERENCE: GLA/SOLA/2262 | Solar Capture Technologies Ltd | — | — | £2,345,200 † |
| Bass Rock Refurbishment 2025 - 2027 | Accted Engineering | 5 Sept 2025 | 1.3 yrs · up to 2.3 yrs | £550,000 ≈ £413k/yr |
| Refurbishment and Upgrade of Calf of Eday Lighthouse | Accted Ltd | 11 Mar 2026 | 5 mo | £303,640 |
| Refurbishment and Upgrade of Noup Head Lighthouse | RS Merriman Limited | 27 May 2026 | 9 mo | £295,707 |
| Refurbishment and Upgrade of Dunnet head Lighthouse | Trac HLM Ltd | 20 Jan 2026 | 10 mo | £261,794 |
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.
21 of 28 contracts carry an end date, 6 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Minor Refurbishment of North Rona Lighthouse | Trac HLM Ltd | 19 Mar 2027 | £125,156 |
| Rubha Reidh Road Repairs | Leiths (Scotland) Ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £81,853 |
| Dry Dock Services Framework Agreement | Rosyth Royal Dockyard Ltd | 31 Aug 2027 | £1,736,715 |
| Nickel Cadmium Batteries | Saft Limited | 9 Nov 2027 estimated | £429,368 |
| Helicopter Services | PLM Dollar Group Ltd (trading as PDG Aviation Services), PLM Dollar Group Ltd (trading as PDG Aviation Services) | 1 Dec 2027 | £23,000,000 |
| Bilateral Framework Agreement for Racon Beacons | Sealite UK Ltd | 15 Jan 2028 estimated | £1,424,944 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 87 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| NLB HQ Roof Works Project | Awarded / complete | 30 Sept 2026 | — |
| Water Management - LegionellaHealth and safety services | Open | 24 Sept 2026 | £124,000 |
| NLV Pharos Harbour Generator OverhaulMechanical engineering services | Open | 16 Sept 2026 | £85,000 |
| Rubha Reidh Road RepairsBridge renewal construction work | Awarded / complete | 15 Sept 2026 | £30,000 |
| RTU's and M2M Communications ManagementSIM cards | Awarded / complete | 14 Sept 2026 | £180,000 |
| Ignition Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) SupportScada or equivalent system | Awarded / complete | 10 Sept 2026 | £152,000 |
| NLV Pharos Dry Dock Services 2027Dry-docking services | Open | 8 Sept 2026 | £550,000 |
| Naval Architecture ServicesEngineering design services | Planned | 7 Sept 2026 | £1,900,000 |
| Skerry of Ness and Hoxa Head Lighthouse RefurbishmentsRefurbishment work | Open | 26 Aug 2026 | £75,000 |
| Refurbishment of Maughold Head and Douglas Head LighthousesPainting work of buildings | Open | 26 Aug 2026 | £180,000 |
| Minor Refurbishment of North Rona LighthousePainting work | Awarded / complete | 7 Aug 2026 | £150,000 |
| Crisis Media ManagementCrisis management services | Awarded / complete | 27 Jul 2026 | £65,000 |
| NLB HQ Roof Works ProjectRoof maintenance work | Open | 24 Jul 2026 | £300,000 |
| Refurbishment of NLB Oban Base Store RoofRoof maintenance work | Open | 22 Jul 2026 | £300,000 |
| Hoy Sound (Hoy High)Painting work | Planning | 16 Jul 2026 | £100,000 |
| Nickel Metal Hydride BatteriesBattery packs | Planning | 7 Jul 2026 | £950,000 |
| Low Power Timers and Transmitters | Awarded / complete | 6 Jul 2026 | — |
| Bi-Lateral GLA Aviation Services ProjectAerial and related services | Awarded / complete | 3 Jul 2026 | £67,000,000 |
| Maintenance and Redecoration of Rumble Rock Lighthouse | Awarded / complete | 29 Jun 2026 | — |
| Cable Management System- Shore to Ship Power, Oban BaseHarbour equipment | Open | 29 Jun 2026 | £500,000 |
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. 21 of 28 published contracts have an end date; 6 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.