Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£0
12 m spend
£666k
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£15.0m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Midlothian Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£275k£550k£825k£1.1mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

12

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

works56 · £1.0bn
services84 · £866.6m
goods18 · £19.5m
Unspecified3 · £666k

Instrument type

contract161 · £1.9bn
Source:Find a Tender: 158Contracts Finder: 3

Awarded contracts · 0 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Midlothian Council is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
RG
£1.5bnest.
2
CL
£950.0mest.
3
CI
4 contracts · SME
£850.0mest.
4
CH
£800.0mest.
5
AH
£800.0mest.
6
FB
4 contracts · SME
£800.0mest.
7
OC
£755.2mest.
8
MC
4 contracts · SME
£750.0mest.
9157
···
149 other suppliers
long tail · 105 SMEs
£799.0m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
54 contracts
£19.4bn
93%
Support transport services
1 contract
£400.0m
2%
Education, training
26 contracts
£378.0m
2%
Construction materials
5 contracts
£241.6m
1%
Business, legal, advisory
12 contracts
£240.0m
1%
Architecture, engineering
50 contracts
£116.3m
1%
Real estate
3 contracts
£37.5m
0%
Transport services
29 contracts
£31.3m
0%

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 0 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Total mods
0
Above tolerance
0
Total value
£0
Novations
0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

Midlothian Council has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

67%
SME supplier share
target 33%
126
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
157
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKM73
Contact
Steven Carvel
Email
steven.carvel@midlothian.gov.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

Resources

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