Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services contracts in Scotland
1 live and 27 total public-sector opportunities matched to CPV 55000000 in Scotland.
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Procuring hotel, restaurant and retail trade services in Scotland
This page tracks public-sector demand for hotel, restaurant and retail trade services (CPV 55000000) published by contracting authorities in Scotland. Tendarix has indexed 27 matching contracts here, 1 of which is open for bids right now.
Division 55 covers hotel, restaurant and catering services — school and hospital meals, hospitality for events, canteen operation and residential accommodation services. Food as goods is division 15; this division is the service of feeding people.
Scotland runs its own procurement regime: the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act rather than the Procurement Act 2023, with all public notices published on Public Contracts Scotland (PCS). Thirty-two councils, NHS Scotland boards, Scottish Government directorates and agencies like Scottish Procurement and Scotland Excel (the councils' centre of expertise) structure the market, with national frameworks covering many common categories.
Notices are aggregated from Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, the devolved-nation portals and 400+ council procurement sites, then summarised in plain English. Suppliers working in Scotland use the chart below to gauge how active this category is month-to-month, and the list to find live opportunities to bid on.
Procurement activity over the last 12 months
21 contracts worth £44.3m in disclosed value were published for Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services in Scotland in the last year. Bars show monthly contract volume; the line tracks known award value.
Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services opportunities in Scotland
C002022 Provision of a virtual platform to support the Public Services Delivery Scotland annual conference
£102kProvision of Temporary Emergency Accommodation (East Lothian Council)
Provision of Visitor & Events Catering at Macduff Marine Aquarium
£1750kProvision of Outsourced Catering Services
£11k–209kThe Provision of a Diverse and Sustainable Catering Service
£1090kGCC006633CPU - Provision of Courier Services for the Delivery of Prepared Meals and Related Sundry Products
Inverness Town House Catering
£250kCatering Service at Paisley Museum Re-Imagined
Provision of Temporary Emergency Accommodation
£300kProvision of Outsourced Catering Services
£8000kConcession Contract for the Provision of Catering Services at the Modern Art Galleries, “Modern One” and “Modern Two”
£2333kCatering Delivery Partnership
£5000kCatering and Pest Control Services
£5567kCourier Services - Question Paper Delivery
£132kProvision of Visitor & Events Catering at Macduff Marine Aquarium
Provision of Temporary Emergency Accommodation
£300kThe Provision of a Diverse and Sustainable Catering Service
£9000kThe Provision of a Diverse and Sustainable Catering Service
£9000kProvision of Student Accommodation
£995kProvision of Temporary Emergency Accommodation
£300kFrequently asked questions
How many Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services tenders are live in Scotland?
There are 1 live Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services opportunities in Scotland right now, out of 27 indexed in total. This page updates daily as buyers publish new notices.
Who buys Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services in Scotland?
The most active buyers in Scotland for this category on Tendarix include City of Glasgow College, Falkirk Council, Aberdeenshire Council. Schools and multi-academy trusts (catering contracts, typically 3–5 years), councils (school meals frameworks, civic catering), NHS trusts (patient dining, retail catering), universities and the MoD are consistent buyers.
What does CPV code 55000000 cover?
Division 55 covers hotel, restaurant and catering services — school and hospital meals, hospitality for events, canteen operation and residential accommodation services. Food as goods is division 15; this division is the service of feeding people.
How do I win Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services contracts in Scotland?
School catering is won on food quality within a hard price-per-meal envelope: sample menus costed against school food standards, take-up growth plans and investment offers (kitchen equipment, servery refurbishment) decide evaluations. Show allergen management maturity and real staff-transfer (TUPE) experience — mismanaging either is the classic new-entrant failure buyers screen for. Register on Public Contracts Scotland and PCS-Tender — nothing Scottish reaches English portals reliably. Scottish policy emphasises community benefits (their social-value equivalent), fair work practices (real Living Wage, no inappropriate zero-hours) and SME access through lotting; Scotland Excel frameworks are the route into council goods and care markets, and Quick Quotes on PCS distribute sub-threshold work to registered suppliers only.
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