At a glance · for buyers and watchdogs
PORTAKABIN LIMITED has won £887.7m across 104 public-sector buyers, with 60 live contracts. No active Companies House risk flags.
Why: top buyer Department for Education at 41% · 95% in Construction materials · 0 active risk flags · 0 modifications.
ESG & policies vault · 0/5
Key governance & sustainability policies. Published documents link out; missing ones are greyed.
Capabilities
What this supplier does, where they sit, who they sell to.
- Modular Buildings
- 953_18 Modular Buildings
- Covid 19 Vaccination Programme - Modular Buildings
- Covid 19 - Modular Buildings for Temporary Vaccination Sites
- YPO - 001004 Purchase and Hire of Plant Machinery Site
- Hire of modular building for Biomedical Laboratory - a call off contract from NHS SBS awarded framework agreement SBS10514 Modular Buildings 3
Extracted automatically from portakabin.com on Jul 2026. Not independently verified — treat as the supplier’s own marketing claims.
Case studies
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Buyer references
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No buyer references yet
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Accreditations & memberships
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No accreditations recorded
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KPI performance
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No verified KPI scores yet
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Contracts · 60 live · 147 historic
Pulled from Contracts Finder & Find a Tender. Most recent first.
| Title | Buyer | CPV | Awarded | Value | Term | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheffield City Council | 44211100 | 20 Jul 2026 | £797k | 2.2 yrs | Live | |
| Askham Bryan College | 44211100 | 07 Aug 2026 | £27k | 2 yrs | Live | |
| HORNCHURCH ACADEMY TRUST | — | 08 Jun 2026 | £138.3m | 2 yrs | pending | |
| Northumberland County Council | 45210000 | 01 May 2026 | £283k | 6 mo | Live | |
| London Borough of Camden | — | 01 May 2026 | £200k | — | pending | |
| Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire | 45213100 | 31 Mar 2026 | £82k | 9 mo | Live | |
| Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO | — | 23 Apr 2026 | £41.7m | 2 yrs | pending | |
| West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | 44211100 | 01 Apr 2026 | £3.6m | 5 yrs | Live | |
| City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council | — | 09 Mar 2026 | £400k | 11 mo | Live | |
| Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation | — | 18 Mar 2026 | — | 4 yrs | pending |
Top buyers · 104 buyers · top 3 = 68%
Share of awarded value. Concentration fires above 40% for any single buyer.
Category mix
CPV-division share of last-12m awarded value. Single-category exposure: 95%.
Geography
Distribution of awarded value by buyer region.
Peers
Suppliers with overlapping CPVs & buyers (last 24m). PORTAKABIN LIMITED highlighted.
| Supplier | SME? | Awarded · 24m | Contracts |
|---|---|---|---|
PO PORTAKABIN LIMITED | No | £187.9m | — |
| No | £140.0m | 1 | |
| No | £67.8m | 1 | |
| Yes | £35.4m | 2 | |
| No | £28.1m | 2 | |
| No | £18.8m | 2 |
Red flags · 0 active
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Compliance scorecard
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Modifications
Variations to awarded contracts logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74.
No modifications recorded
No published contract variations for this supplier. Modification notices appear here as they are issued under the Procurement Act 2023.
News mentions
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No news mentions found
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Companies House
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Registered details
- Company no.
- 00685303
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private limited
- Incorporated
- 03 Mar 1961
- Reg. office
- Yorkon House New Lane, Huntington, York, YO32 9PT
- SIC codes
- 32990 · 77390
- Last accounts
- 31 Dec 2024
- Next accounts due
- 30 Sept 2026
Directors & PSC
- URWIN, Gavin — directorAppointed 06 Mar 2023
- THOMSON, Simon — secretaryAppointed 09 Jan 2023
- IBBETSON, Daniel Frederick — directorAppointed 29 Nov 2021
- COLLINS, Jonathan Mark — directorAppointed 01 Oct 2013
- Portakabin Holdco Limited — person with significant controlownership of shares 75 to 100 percent · voting rights 75 to 100 percent
Financial
Filed accounts from Companies House.
No financial filings on record
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Org tree
Group structure and ownership.
Independent. No parent company or subsidiaries recorded at Companies House for this entity.
Social value
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No social-value commitments yet
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