Quick answer — Royal Botanic Garden EdinburghLast refreshed 04 Jun 2026

At a glance

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has awarded £7.6m across 8 suppliers, with 10 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 92% · 4 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 56% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration92%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share56%
Pipeline · open now4
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a contracting authority, based in UKM. Tracks 13 published notices and 7 awards on PublicSupply.

13
Notices published
7
Awards
8
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
£3.7m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh — 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

2

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

4

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

services11 · £46.6m
goods2 · £0

Instrument type

contract13 · £46.6m
Source:Find a Tender: 13

Awarded contracts · 10 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Finance System Implementation and Support VAR servicesForGood.Tech (Trading name of Total Enterprise Solutions)48443000active
CRM Fundraising and Donor Management SaaSBlackbaud Europeactive
Membership Recruitment and Visitor Giving CampaignComplete Works (Boo Consultancy Ltd)79342000£200kest.active
RBGE - Edinburgh Garden Catering Concession55500000£12.5mest.active
CHRISTMAS LIGHTING EVENT CONCESSION AT ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGHRaymond Gubbay Ltd T/A Sony Music£7.0mest.active
RBGE - Edinburgh Garden Catering Concessionaire£12.5mest.planned
Archive Digitisation FrameworkUK Archiving92512000£400kest.active
Archive Digitisation FrameworkMax Communications Ltd92512000£400kest.active
Archive Digitisation FrameworkAutomated Document Services Ltd92512000£400kest.active
Management and Production of an Illuminated Trail EventRaymond Gubbay Ltdactive
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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
£7.0mest.
92% of total
2
CW
£200kest.
3% of total
3
UA
1 contract · SME
£133kest.
2% of total
4
MC
1 contract · SME
£133kest.
2% of total
5
AD
£133kest.
2% of total
7
BE
£0
0% of total
8
RG
£0
0% of total

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
6 contracts
£26.5m
66%
Hotel, restaurant, retail
1 contract
£12.5m
31%
Recreational, cultural, sport
3 contracts
£1.2m
3%
Business, legal, advisory
1 contract
£200k
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Other
Hotel, restaurant, retail
Recreational, cultural, sport
Business, legal, advisory
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 · 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.

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 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.

56%
SME supplier share
target 33%
5
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
8
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
UKM
Contact
supplychain@rbge.org.uk
Email
supplychain@rbge.org.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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