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Public Contracts Scotland verified 1 month ago Contract award

PPE

Awarded United Kingdom Security, fire-fighting & defence equipment

Buyer Scottish Borders Council

€181,262 awarded value

Key facts

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Awarded to

Arco Limited; Guthrie Group Ltd

Awarded value
€181,262
Record with this buyer
1 first contract from this buyer in the register

Summary

Machine-generated summary

Scottish Borders Council has published a contract award notice for personal protective equipment (PPE). The spend was called off from the Scotland Excel PPE framework (SXL0621) and covers the 12 month period from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026. Two suppliers were awarded business: Arco Ltd, with call-off spend of 69,481.69 GBP, and The Guthrie Group Ltd, with call-off spend of 85,932.00 GBP. The official record lists the awarded value as 181,261.59 EUR and an award date of 2025-04-01. This is a contract award notice, not an invitation to tender.

Timing

  1. Awarded
  2. Published

Description

This notice reflects the actual value of regulated call-off spend against the Scotland Excel Framework for PPE (0621) by Scottish Borders Council during the 12 month period (1st April 2025 - 31st March 2026). Award against framework: SXL0621 PPE Scotland Excel PPE 0621. This is not an Invitation to Tender notice but is instead a Contract Award notice advising the market that Scottish Borders Council has awarded this business after calling off from a Scotland Excel Framework. Arco Ltd 69,481.69 GBP The Guthrie Group Ltd 85,932.00 GBP (SC Ref:838278)

Official source

Source: Public Contracts Scotland

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Last verified against Public Contracts Scotland 1 month ago

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Market

Security, fire-fighting & defence equipment in United Kingdom

median award in this market
€177,748
More figures

What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 67 awards for Security, fire-fighting & defence equipment in United Kingdom.

This award
€181,262
Median award
€177,748
Middle half of past awards
€46,994 to €380,986

The award sits inside the usual range.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Market context

open now in Security, fire-fighting & defence equipment
755
median open notice
€200,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Security, fire-fighting & defence equipment

different companies won awards here
86
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
10%
buyers awarded contracts here
72

Based on 102 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

The buyer in figures

Scottish Borders Council

notices in the register
74
awards
68
awarded in total
€52.7M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
60
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
12%

Based on 68 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Scottish Borders Council

United Kingdom

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