Scottish Qualifications Authority: tenders, sectors & how to win their contracts

Scottish Qualifications Authority has published 38 tenders in United Kingdom.

Its buying spans 9 CPV divisions, most often business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.

Across 24 awarded contracts the median value is £233.9k.

Its published awards total £15.1m.

How to win their contracts

Measured from Scottish Qualifications Authority's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

Plan for about 42 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 9 of their tenders.
They publish about 0.6 tenders a month, measured over 60 months of history.
Half of their 24 awarded contracts are worth £233.9k or less — size your bid to that range.
Most of their buying falls in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies, hotel, restaurant and retail trade services.
Their most frequent suppliers are RM Education Ltd (2), Emtec Facility Services Limited (2), Contentful (UK) Limited (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.

Tender	Winner	Tender closed	Contract Value
Paper Products	CPP Trading Group Ltd	25 February 2026	£46.2k
MEPH Services	Emtec Facility Services Limited	3 September 2025	£171k
Examination Packaging	Coveris Speciality Bags Ltd	19 March 2025	£50k
Courier Services - Question Paper Delivery	Eagle Couriers	17 March 2024	£132.4k
Paper Products	Lyreco	23 October 2023	£132k
Research Services	Ashbrook Research & Consultancy Ltd	23 March 2023	£228.8k

Contracts are dated by the tender's closing date — award dates are not published in the source data.

Supplier	Contracts	Total Value
RM Education Ltd	2	£8.4m
Emtec Facility Services Limited	2	£681k
Contentful (UK) Limited	2	£680k
Adare SEC Limited	2	£434k
Adare International Limited	2	£68k