Shetland Islands Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Local-authority-districtLocal authorityScotlandLerwick, ShetlandCentral purchasing body on 7 of 20 notices

Find a Tender organisation id71681Websiteshetland.gov.uk ↗

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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 months100% vs prior 12 months (10)
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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 lot233.3% single-bid · 6 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 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share17%of 35 awarded procedures · 64 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.

35 awarded tenders, 64 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months118 within 6 months · 11 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£15mnet · on 12 of 12 published values · top 5 = 88%
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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 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 · 20 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.

  • Contract85%(17 notices)
    17 of 20 notices are Contract (85%).
  • Framework15%(3 notices)
    3 of 20 notices are Framework (15%).
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.

  • Open55%(11 notices)
    11 of 20 notices are Open (55%).
  • Limited / restricted30%(6 notices)
    6 of 20 notices are Limited / restricted (30%).
  • Selective15%(3 notices)
    3 of 20 notices are Selective (15%).
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 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

2robust · n=633.3% 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 20 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

113 of 20 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
Shetland Grasscutting (a trading name of Grounds Maintenance Solutions Ltd)25.7%22—
HNP Engineers (Lerwick) Ltd25.7%12—
Malakoff Limitedframework/DPS on 225.7%02—
K and k transportframework/DPS on 112.9%13—
Wastbus Ltdframework/DPS on 112.9%13—
Martin's Car Hireframework/DPS on 112.9%13—
Gary H Johnson T/A Johnson transportframework/DPS on 112.9%13—
J & K Scollayframework/DPS on 112.9%13—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 17% of 35 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 64 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.

£15mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 12 of 12 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 88%.
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.

£364k middle valuerobust · n=12Middle half £205k–£962k.
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
B9082 Gutcher to Cullivoe Road Improvement, Yell, ShetlandC W Johnson Plant Ltd——£8,915,949 †
CCS Call Off RM1557.14 Lot 2 Cloud Software - ITSM SoftwareAccess UK Ltd——£1,754,304 †
CCS Call Off RM6098 Lot 3 Microsoft LicensesUltima Business Solutions Ltd——£1,573,154 †
Provision of Administrative Services for the Delivery of Adaptations to Private Sector HousesHjaltland Housing Association Ltd——£758,000 †
Grounds Maintenance Services - Contract B - Central MainlandShetland Grasscutting (a trading name of Grounds Maintenance Solutions Ltd)——£499,125 †

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.

34 of 41 contracts carry an end date, 26 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 11 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 52 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Design & Build of New Passenger Vesselcentral purchasing bodyFerry boatsCancelled25 Sept 2026£35,100,000
Provision of Marine Electrical and Mechanical ServicesFrameworkMechanical and electrical engineering servicesOpen10 Sept 2026—
Gremista Landfill, Lerwick, Shetland - Phase 3 ConstructionConstruction workOpen14 Aug 2026—
Janet Courtney Hostel Refurbishment, Lerwick, Shetland - Architectural Services and Principal DesignerArchitectural and related servicesAwarded / complete15 Jun 2026—
Provision of Administrative Services for the Delivery of Adaptations to Private Sector Housescentral purchasing bodyAdministrative housing servicesAwarded / complete31 Mar 2026—
GCA Call off RM1557.14 Lot 2 Health & Safety Compliance Softwarecentral purchasing bodySoftware package and information systemsAwarded / complete31 Mar 2026—
Multi-Supplier Framework Agreement for the Provision of Passenger TransportFramework3 lotsHire of buses and coaches with driverAwarded / complete30 Mar 2026—
Janet Courtney Hostel Refurbishment, Lerwick, Shetland - Architectural Services and Principal DesignerArchitectural and related servicesCancelled30 Mar 2026—
PROVISION OF LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING (LiDAR) AND AERIAL DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY SURVEYING AND DATA (LiDAR MAPPING)central purchasing bodyAerial mapping servicesAwarded / complete17 Mar 2026£322,000
CCS Call Off RM6098 Lot 3 Microsoft Licensescentral purchasing bodyLicense management software packageAwarded / complete12 Mar 2026—
Provision of Financial Health and Fuel Poverty Advice Servicecentral purchasing bodyCommunity health servicesAwarded / complete12 Mar 2026—
Supply and Delivery of Marine Grade Gas Oil to Shetland Islands CouncilFrameworkFuel oilsAwarded / complete30 Jan 2026—
Property Asset Valuation ServicesProperty management services of real estate on a fee or contract basisAwarded / complete18 Nov 2025—
Engineering Inspection ServicesIndustrial inspection servicesCancelled25 Jul 2025—
CCS Call Off RM1557.14 Lot 2 Cloud Software - ITSM Softwarecentral purchasing bodySoftware package and information systemsAwarded / complete24 Jul 2025—
Supply of Vesselcentral purchasing bodyFerry boatsCancelled15 Jul 2025£5,400,000
B9082 Gutcher to Cullivoe Road Improvement, Yell, ShetlandRoad construction worksAwarded / complete26 Jun 2025£7,445,286
Supply of Vesselcentral purchasing bodyFerry boatsAwarded / complete10 Jun 2025£5,700,000
Anderson High School Halls of Residence, Lerwick, Shetland - Hard Facilities Management ServicesBuilding and facilities management servicesAwarded / complete6 Jun 2025—
Supply of 2 (two) Engine Room Propulsion Engines MV GeiraEngine partsAwarded / complete27 May 2025—

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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. 34 of 41 published contracts have an end date; 26 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.