Scottish Natural Heritage: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ScotlandInvernessCentral purchasing body on 11 of 13 notices

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Open now1next deadline 6 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 months6-14% vs prior 12 months (7)
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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 lot60% single-bid · 5 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 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share21%of 28 awarded procedures · 80 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.

28 awarded tenders, 80 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months61 within 6 months · 6 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£810knet · on 6 of 6 published values · top 5 = 96%
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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

1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Peatland ACTION FW02 Field Ecologists FrameworkFrameworkcentral purchasing body6 Nov 20269d£450,000

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 · 13 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.

  • Contract77%(10 notices)
    10 of 13 notices are Contract (77%).
  • Framework23%(3 notices)
    3 of 13 notices are Framework (23%).
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.

  • Open77%(10 notices)
    10 of 13 notices are Open (77%).
  • Limited / restricted8%(1 notice)
    1 of 13 notices is Limited / restricted (8%).
  • Selective8%(1 notice)
    1 of 13 notices is Selective (8%).
  • Route not published8%(1 notice)
    1 of 13 notices is Route not published (8%).
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 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

6robust · n=50% 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 13 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

19 of 13 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
AECOM LIMITED27.1%12—
Jeremy Benn Associates Ltdframework/DPS on 127.1%12—
Informed Solutions Ltd.27.1%12—
SAVILLS (UK) LIMITED27.1%02—
EOLAS Insight Ltd27.1%02—
HCS Water Treatment Ltd13.6%11—
Peachy Mondays13.6%11—
Innaxys Ltd13.6%11—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 21% of 28 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 80 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.

£810kSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 6 of 6 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 96%.
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.

£134k middle valuerobust · n=6Middle half £65k–£204k.
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
PP1303 (x-ref. PP1380) - CivTech Challenge 8.5 - Hosting, Support, Maintenance & Call-Off ContractInformed Solutions Ltd.——£236,800 †
Marine Survey VesselCheetah Marine International Ltd——£207,068 †
Digital Asset Management SystemInnaxys Ltd——£194,670 †
UKHab Survey & Natural Capital Assessment of NHS EstateAECOM LIMITED——£73,500 †
Water hygiene services (incl. legionella control) for NatureScot offices & buildingsHCS Water Treatment Ltd——£62,256 †

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.

41 of 48 contracts carry an end date, 39 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 37 of 37 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Marine Survey Vesselcentral purchasing bodyBoatsAwarded / complete23 Oct 2026£188,000
Website Service and Maintenancecentral purchasing bodyWorld wide web (www) site design servicesCancelled9 Sept 2026—
Peatland Action Monitoring (RMN) Surveyor Framework 2026Frameworkcentral purchasing bodyDigital mapping servicesAwarded / complete31 Jul 2026£220,000
Assessment of wildfire resilience at Beinn Eighe National Nature Reservecentral purchasing bodyEnvironmental Impact Assessment (EIA) services other than for constructionOpen27 Jul 2026—
Manufacture, Supply and Installation of Timber Signage for Scotland’s National Nature ReservesFrameworkGraphic design servicesOpen23 Feb 2026£360,000
CivTech Challenge 10.3 - How can technology help improve the monitoring and protection of seabirds in various environments, focussing initially on the challenge of monitoring puffins above and below ground?central purchasing bodyData equipmentAwarded / complete2 Feb 2026£650,000
Digital Asset Management Systemcentral purchasing bodyIT services: consultingAwarded / complete1 Dec 2025£250,000
UKHab Survey & Natural Capital Assessment of NHS Estatecentral purchasing bodyEnvironmental servicesAwarded / complete19 Sept 2025—
Digital Access Management Systemcentral purchasing bodyIT services: consultingCancelled29 Aug 2025£250,000
People Engagement Surveyscentral purchasing bodyCustomer satisfaction surveyAwarded / complete27 Aug 2025—
Water hygiene services (incl. legionella control) for NatureScot offices & buildingscentral purchasing bodyTechnical testingAwarded / complete25 Apr 2025—
Provision of Cloud GIS Software & Servicescentral purchasing bodyMapping software development servicesPlanned7 Feb 2025—
PP1303 (x-ref. PP1380) - CivTech Challenge 8.5 - Hosting, Support, Maintenance & Call-Off ContractEnvironmental managementAwarded / complete7 Jan 2025—
Provision of building surveying servicescentral purchasing bodyBuilding surveying servicesAwarded / complete29 Oct 2024—
Species on the Edge Website DesignWorld wide web (www) site design servicesAwarded / complete10 Oct 2024£25,000
Helicopter and Pilot Services FrameworkFramework5 lotsHelicoptersAwarded / complete19 Aug 2024£2,000,000
Framework agreement for marine survey, analysis & interpretationFrameworkcentral purchasing body16 lotsMarine survey servicesAwarded / complete17 Jul 2024—
Space Planning and Benchmarking Consultantcentral purchasing bodyArchitectural and related servicesAwarded / complete26 Jun 2024—
CivTech 8.6 - How can biodiversity credits be designed in a way that provides simplicity for projects and buyers, and enables investment in Scotland’s nature?central purchasing bodyBusiness services: lawAwarded / complete28 Mar 2024£650,000
CivTech 8.3 - How can technology help to create a nature network by 2030 across all of the different areas of Scotland?central purchasing bodyEnvironmental managementAwarded / complete28 Mar 2024£650,000

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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. 41 of 48 published contracts have an end date; 39 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.