Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£250k
Median award

No awards recorded in the last 24 months.

National Library of Scotland has no dated award notices on record.

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

9

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
No recorded contracts end within the next 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services11 · £19.7m
works7 · £14.5m
goods21 · £3.2m

Instrument type

contract39 · £37.4m
Source:Find a Tender: 39

Awarded contracts · 0 live

All contracts with a published award notice where National Library of Scotland 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
RI
£13.5mest.
2
TT
£1.5mest.
3
KW
£480kest.
4
CB
£280kest.
5
CS
1 contract · SME
£250kest.
6
TE
£250kest.
7
BR
1 contract · SME
£245kest.
8
AW
£0
99
···
1 other suppliers
long tail · 0 SMEs
£0

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
2 contracts
£19.0m
51%
Construction works
3 contracts
£14.5m
39%
IT services, software
3 contracts
£1.7m
5%
Printed matter
2 contracts
£640k
2%
Software packages, IT
3 contracts
£500k
1%
Recreational, cultural, sport
2 contracts
£250k
1%
Other
1 contract
£150k
0%
Industrial machinery
1 contract
£120k
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.

National Library of Scotland 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.

55%
SME supplier share
target 33%
6
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
9
Distinct suppliers
9%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
0%
Local suppliers (EH postcodes)
0 of 6 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£0 of £14.3m
67%
Postcode coverage
6 of 9 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the EH postcode area — not trading address, so national firms registered locally count and local branches of elsewhere-registered firms don't. Percentages are of suppliers with a known registered office.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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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
UKM
Contact
Rosa Mak
Email
procurementteam@nls.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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