Food Standards Scotland (FSS): tenders, sectors & how to win their contracts

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) has published 32 tenders in United Kingdom.

Its buying spans 8 CPV divisions, most often other community, social and personal services.

Across 20 awarded contracts the median value is £160k.

Its published awards total £4.6m.

How to win their contracts

Measured from Food Standards Scotland (FSS)'s own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

Plan for about 33 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 7 of their tenders.
They publish about 0.5 tenders a month, measured over 61 months of history.
Half of their 20 awarded contracts are worth £160k or less — size your bid to that range.
Most of their buying falls in other community, social and personal services, architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.
Their most frequent suppliers are MacLaren West Ltd (2), Joanne Drew (2), Microbial Genomics Ltd / (Trading as) MicrobesNG (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.

Tender	Winner	Tender closed	Contract Value
Managed Workwear Provision and Laundry Services	Johnsons Workwear	2 February 2026	£171.7k
Operational Workflow System (OWS) Hosting and Maintenance	Civica UK Limited	30 June 2023	£311.7k
CLUE software licences	Clue Computing Company Ltd	5 April 2023	£181.8k
Whole Genome Sequencing Services for E.coli Genomes	Microbial Genomics Ltd / (Trading as) MicrobesNG	3 January 2023	£160k
Whole Genome Sequencing Services for E.coli Genomes	Microbial Genomics Ltd / (Trading as) MicrobesNG	3 January 2023	£160k
Monitoring Dietary Intakes in Scotland using INTAKE24	Edinburgh Innovations	15 August 2022	£600k

Supplier	Contracts	Total Value
MacLaren West Ltd	2	£1.4m
Joanne Drew	2	£700k
Microbial Genomics Ltd / (Trading as) MicrobesNG	2	£320k