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
£5.5m
Median award

No awards recorded in the last 24 months.

Shetland Islands Council has no dated award notices on record.

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

1

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

services65 · £651.0m
goods30 · £56.3m
works13 · £18.1m

Instrument type

contract108 · £725.4m
Source:Find a Tender: 108

Awarded contracts · 0 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Shetland Islands 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
ML
£400.0mest.
2
DL
2 contracts
£29.3mest.
3
CC
£29.3mest.
4
BL
2 contracts · SME
£26.4mest.
5
MF
£22.0mest.
6
CC
1 contract · SME
£22.0mest.
7
HM
2 contracts · SME
£15.4mest.
8
SA
£15.4mest.
9123
···
115 other suppliers
long tail · 98 SMEs
£72.7m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
23 contracts
£443.2m
39%
Support transport services
3 contracts
£408.0m
36%
Architecture, engineering
56 contracts
£117.2m
10%
Public utilities
1 contract
£80.0m
7%
Transport equipment, vehicles
5 contracts
£46.5m
4%
Other
11 contracts
£20.0m
2%
Repair & maintenance
7 contracts
£13.4m
1%
Transport services
25 contracts
£1.8m
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.

Shetland Islands 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.

81%
SME supplier share
target 33%
108
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
123
Distinct suppliers
30%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
0%
Local suppliers (ZE postcodes)
0 of 30 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£0 of £539.7m
24%
Postcode coverage
30 of 123 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the ZE 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
UKM66
Contact
Graeme MacDonald
Email
contract.admin@shetland.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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