The Highland Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Scotland·Inverness·Central purchasing body on 12 of 47 notices
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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 23 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.
72 awarded tenders, 196 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
4 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Corran Ferry New Electric Vessel (CFNEV) | 10 Nov 2026 | 12d | — |
| Provision of West Ardnamurchan Refuse & Recycling Collections | 16 Nov 2026 | 18d | — |
| Highland Hydrogen | 18 Nov 2026 | 20d | £30,000,000 |
| Services for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) in Highland | 1 Dec 2026 | 33d | £3,600,000 |
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
85 Health and social work services12 procedures · 26% · 1 open45 Construction work9 procedures · 19%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental8 procedures · 17% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering4 procedures · 9%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting4 procedures · 9%42 Industrial machinery3 procedures · 6%60 Transport services (except waste transport)3 procedures · 6%09 Petroleum, coal, oil and gas2 procedures · 4%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 · 47 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.
Contract79%(37 notices)
37 of 47 notices are Contract (79%).Framework19%(9 notices)
9 of 47 notices are Framework (19%).Dynamic purchasing system2%(1 notice)
1 of 47 notices is Dynamic purchasing system (2%).
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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.
Open66%(31 notices)
31 of 47 notices are Open (66%).Limited / restricted21%(10 notices)
10 of 47 notices are Limited / restricted (21%).Selective6%(3 notices)
3 of 47 notices are Selective (6%).Route not published6%(3 notices)
3 of 47 notices are Route not published (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 23 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 47 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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| Bowmans (Locheil Logistics Ltd) | 4 | 5.6% | 3 | 14 | — |
| New Start Highland | 4 | 5.6% | 3 | 5 | — |
| CrossReach (the operating name for The Church of Scotland Social Care Council) | 3 | 4.2% | 1 | 13 | — |
| Richard Irvin FM Limited | 2 | 2.8% | 2 | 5 | — |
| Apex Scotland | 2 | 2.8% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Centred(Scotland) | 2 | 2.8% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Everwarm Ltd | 2 | 2.8% | 1 | 31 | — |
| Right There | 2 | 2.8% | 1 | 18 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 14% of 72 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 196 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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| Corran Ferry Infrastructure Improvement Scheme (CFIIS) | CHARLES BRAND GROUP LIMITED | — | — | £26,143,625 † |
| Longman, Invergordon, Seater, Granish Waste Haulage Services | A.W Jenkinson Transport Ltd | — | — | £22,885,897 † |
| 52 No New Housing Units, Rosskeen, Ross Shire | Capstone Construction Scotland Ltd | — | — | £13,846,870 † |
| 43 No New Housing Units, Milton of Leys, Inverness | Barratt Homes | — | — | £9,080,477 † |
| North Scotland/Wick John O’Groats Airport PSO Scheduled Flight Services | Air Charter Scotland Ltd | — | — | £7,956,000 † |
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.
151 of 183 contracts carry an end date, 131 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 26 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 106 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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| PIN Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) – Torvean Quarry, InvernessElectricity | Planned | 26 May 2025 | — |
| AWARDED-HC_Refugee_Resettlement_Support_Service-2024Housing services | Awarded / complete | 7 May 2025 | — |
| Framework Agreement for Counselling Services for Children and Young PeopleCounselling services | Awarded / complete | 16 Apr 2025 | £4,500,000 |
| Handyperson Service and Care and Repair Service.Housing services | Open | 14 Mar 2025 | — |
| Managed Print ServiceOffice and computing machinery | Awarded / complete | 17 Feb 2025 | — |
| Provision of an Occupational Health Service 2023Health and safety services | Unsuccessful | 17 Feb 2025 | £1,100,000 |
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. 151 of 183 published contracts have an end date; 131 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.