Quick answer — North Ayrshire CouncilLast refreshed 06 Jun 2026

At a glance

North Ayrshire Council has awarded £1.3bn across 507 suppliers, with 895 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 30% · 115 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 79% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration30%
Modifications · 90 d1
SME spend share79%
Pipeline · open now115
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

North Ayrshire Council is a contracting authority, based in UKM93. Tracks 356 published notices and 261 awards on PublicSupply.

356
Notices published
261
Awards
507
Suppliers engaged
First award on file

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
£4.8m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
North Ayrshire Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£0m£1m£1m£1mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

41

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

115

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

services252 · £1.1bn
works43 · £464.6m
goods61 · £27.9m

Instrument type

contract356 · £1.6bn
Source:Find a Tender: 356

Awarded contracts · 895 live

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

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Provision of a Community Link Network85000000£305kest.active
Flexible Advanced Industrial Unit (Design and Build) – Phase 2 of i3 Business Park45000000£6.0mest.active
Provision of Gas and Electrical Audit ServicesNICEIC Consulting a trading brand of Certsure LLP79210000£200kest.active
Servicing and Repair of ASN Equipment, North AyrshireBeaucare Medical33192600£200kest.active
Residential Care Setting for One Adult with Learning Disability (PIN - Market Engagement)85144100planned
Graphic Design and Digital Media Framework6274 Design79822500£300kest.active
Graphic Design and Digital Media FrameworkVisualize This79822500£300kest.active
Graphic Design and Digital Media FrameworkAdvertisingworks Scotland Ltd79822500£300kest.active
Graphic Design and Digital Media FrameworkCPE Consultancy79822500£300kest.active
Graphic Design and Digital Media FrameworkRoom for Design79822500£300kest.active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
ML
£400.0mest.
30% of total
2
DS
£140.2mest.
10% of total
3
TS
£84.1mest.
6% of total
4
MS
£73.4mest.
5% of total
5
BL
9 contracts · SME
£34.5mest.
3% of total
6
HM
10 contracts · SME
£34.5mest.
3% of total
7
RM
£29.0mest.
2% of total
8
KH
£28.9mest.
2% of total
9507
···
499 other suppliers
long tail · 398 SMEs
£514.4m
38% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
155 contracts
£3.9bn
65%
Business, legal, advisory
87 contracts
£582.1m
10%
Health & social work
40 contracts
£542.7m
9%
Support transport services
2 contracts
£400.8m
7%
Construction materials
46 contracts
£269.9m
4%
Architecture, engineering
185 contracts
£120.2m
2%
Other
58 contracts
£119.6m
2%
Transport equipment, vehicles
48 contracts
£73.6m
1%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Construction works
Business, legal, advisory
Health & social work
Support transport services
Construction materials
Architecture, engineering
LessMore (£m awarded)

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 · 1 in 90 d

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

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 1 notice tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

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.

79%
SME supplier share
target 33%
690
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
507
Distinct suppliers

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKM93
Contact
Nicola Hainan
Email
murraythompson@north-ayrshire.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.

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