Orkney Islands Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Kirkwall
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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 12 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.
60 awarded tenders, 58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provision of Kerbside Collections and Associated Services for the Islands of Eday, Sanday, Stronsay, Westray, North Ronaldsay, Papa Westray, Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre | 2 Nov 2026 | 6d | £1,068,006 |
| Dynamic Purchasing - Construction, Civil Engineering and associated works REVISED | 17 Jun 2030 | 1,329d | £47,000,000 |
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
90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental10 procedures · 30% · 1 open45 Construction work9 procedures · 27% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering8 procedures · 24% · 1 open98 Other community, social and personal services6 procedures · 18% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services5 procedures · 15% · 1 open63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel4 procedures · 12% · 1 open34 Transport equipment and products4 procedures · 12%85 Health and social work services4 procedures · 12%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 · 33 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.
Contract91%(30 notices)
30 of 33 notices are Contract (91%).Dynamic purchasing system6%(2 notices)
2 of 33 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (6%).Framework3%(1 notice)
1 of 33 notices is Framework (3%).
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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.
Open58%(19 notices)
19 of 33 notices are Open (58%).Selective24%(8 notices)
8 of 33 notices are Selective (24%).Limited / restricted15%(5 notices)
5 of 33 notices are Limited / restricted (15%).Route not published3%(1 notice)
1 of 33 notices is Route not published (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 12 lots from this buyer’s competitions, 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 33 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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| Northwards Ltd | 3 | 5% | 1 | 3 | — |
| VOYAGE 1 LIMITED | 2 | 3.3% | 2 | 2 | — |
| MedGen Ltd Scotland | 2 | 3.3% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Seven Resourcing Limited | 2 | 3.3% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Randstad | 2 | 3.3% | 2 | 2 | — |
| QMPF LLP | 2 | 3.3% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Arch Henderson | 2 | 3.3% | 1 | 2 | — |
| R Clouston ltd | 2 | 3.3% | 1 | 2 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 12% of 60 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 58 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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| Quanterness Wind Farm - ECC | Heddle Construction Ltd | — | — | £14,053,315 † |
| Container Shipment of Waste to Shetland | Northwards Ltd | — | — | £3,000,000 † |
| Care Home for Adults with Learning Disabilities including Autism | VOYAGE 1 LIMITED | — | — | £2,602,780 † |
| Supply of a Second Hand 24m Landing Craft Type Vessel | BK Marine Ltd. | — | — | £1,500,000 † |
| Provision of Consultancy and Technical Services for the Orkney Ferry Replacement Programme and Orkney Harbours Masterplan Phase 2 | Arch Henderson | — | — | £1,385,128 † |
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.
62 of 73 contracts carry an end date, 31 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 11 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 98 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. 62 of 73 published contracts have an end date; 31 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.