For councils
Tenderscape for councils
Most of a council’s purchases are small and spread across services, from roads to social care. Tenderscape gives every service a quick, consistent way to get quotes, while procurement keeps sight of recorded decisions and your team reviews the reporting.
Reporting period: 2027/28 · 1 April 2027 to 31 March 2028
Summary of regulated procurements
Section status: Ready for review
Regulated procurements completed46
Source: Award register, with Public Contracts Scotland award notices as supporting evidence. Count of regulated awards in the period.
Awarded to SMEs29 of 46
Source: Supplier size on each award. Micro, small or medium.
With community benefit requirements19
Source: Contract register. Contracts with requirements recorded.
Sources are restricted to Carron Valley Council for 2027/28. Missing evidence is not replaced with estimated figures.
Prepared by Sarah Kerr 12/05/2028 · Report signatory sign-off required
What we hear from your colleagues
Buying is devolved
Hundreds of budget holders buy below the threshold, each in their own way. Procurement is accountable for the results but rarely sees the decisions.
Community wealth building needs a number
Your community wealth building action plan, prepared with your partners, must set an indicative target for the share of contract spend going to local businesses.
The annual report takes weeks
Pulling together completed procurements, community benefits and supported business activity from spreadsheets and inboxes every summer.
How Tenderscape helps
- Quick quotes for service teams
Start from a template with your own standard questions. Every invitation, response and reason for the choice is kept with the purchase.
- More local and SME suppliers
Each quick quote can reach more suitable suppliers across the sources we cover, including local and small firms your services have never asked. The local and SME share of invitations and awards is recorded as evidence for your community wealth building plan.
- Supplier checks before award
Insurance, accreditations and declarations are checked before a contract is awarded, and anything missing or expired is flagged.
- Contracts register
Every award becomes a contract record without retyping, ready for the contracts register that section 35 of the 2014 Act requires, with alerts before contracts end.
- Community benefits to delivery
Benefits agreed at award are tracked until they are delivered, so the report shows what happened, not just what was promised.
Reporting your elected members and auditors can rely on
Figures link back to the records behind them.
- Spend by route below the threshold, by service and by supplier
- Local and small-business spend, recorded as you buy, for your community wealth building target
- The annual procurement report drafted section by section from work already done
- A read-only Power BI feed for your own dashboards
Award controls
| Requirement | What happens in Tenderscape | Who can approve an exception |
|---|---|---|
| Missing or expired mandatory evidence | Blocks the award until an approver records an exception with a reason. | An approver authorised for the award under your standing orders; the reason stays on the record. |
| Evaluator conflict | That evaluator cannot score. | No scoring exception for the conflicted evaluator; assign an evaluator without the conflict. |
| Moderator conflict | Another approver must decide. | Another approver without the conflict and with the required authority. |
| Value above the approver’s limit | Sent to an approver with enough limit. | An approver with enough limit; the original approver cannot override their own limit. |
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