Question reference: S6W-01844
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 23 July 2021
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Current status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 6 August 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many public contracts have been awarded by (a) it and (b) other bodies, to third sector organisations, in each year since 2007, and what the total value is of third sector contracts awarded each year for the same time period.
Answer
The Scottish Government is able to provide details of contracts awarded by itself to third sector organisations however, without disproportionate time, cost and extensive review of many thousands of individual contractual agreements we are unable to provide data for other Public Bodies.
The data provided has been taken from Public Contracts Scotland (PCS), the Scottish Government's advertising portal. The data provided start from 2010 (when PCS was established), and are reliant on suppliers self-selecting their third sector status.
Details of contracts-frameworks awarded by the Scottish Government to third sector organisations are contained in the following table:
Financial Year | No of Contracts | Value of contracts | No of frameworks suppliers | Value of frameworks |
2010-11 | 0 | £0 | 0 | £0 |
2011-12 | 5 | £590,703 | 2 | £7,299,250 |
2012-13 | 7 | £433,892 | 11 | £5,315,000 |
2013-14 | 10 | £3,479,867 | 7 | £2,554,589 |
2014-15 | 10 | £2,851,200 | 1 | £3,737,510 |
2015-16 | 10 | £7,926,938 | 0 | £0 |
2016-17 | 15 | £3,760,417 | 10 | £4,306,961 |
2017-18 | 24 | £108,463,866 | 13 | £3,046,000 |
2018-19 | 35 | £7,991,836 | 5 | £12,000,000 |
2019-20 | 51 | £8,599,361 | 6 | £1,710,233 |
2020-21 | 40 | £11,726,655 | 0 | £0 |
2021-22 (to date) | 5 | £912,548 | 0 | £0 |
Total | 212 | £156,737,283 | 55 | £39,969,543 |
Please note the cumulative value of contracts-frameworks, are for the lifetime of the agreement (these are not annual figures).
The values shown are anticipated at the point of contract-framework award. Actual spend may vary dependant on factors such as usage of the agreement.