Summary of regulated procurement

Transport Scotland’s regulated procurements are governed by the policies and procedures described in Transport Scotland’s Corporate Procurement Strategy 2024-2025. A regulated procurement is any procurement for public supplies or services with a value greater than £50,000 excluding VAT, or greater than £2 million excluding VAT for works contracts.

Where appropriate, Transport Scotland makes use of collaborative framework agreements, including those established by the Scottish Government, Scotland Excel and UK Government frameworks, as well as procuring new Transport Scotland framework agreements and contracts where required. Transport Scotland spent over £985 million on procured contracts during the reporting period.

During the reporting period, Transport Scotland completed 33 regulated procurements as shown in Table 1, with a combined total value of over £241 million. This includes one major works contract worth just under £185 million, 14 call-offs from Transport Scotland frameworks and a further 18 call-offs from collaborative frameworks owned by Scottish Government, Crown Commercial Services (now known as Government Commercial Agency) or Scotland Excel. A regulated procurement is considered completed when the award notice is published on the Public Contracts Scotland website, or where the procurement process otherwise comes to an end.

Further detail on the procurements referred to in Table 1 is contained in Appendix A.