Public Contracts Scotland is the national advertising portal for Scottish public sector procurement, publishing contract notices and awards from Scottish public bodies. It is the Scottish counterpart to the procurement notice services operated elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
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Notices can be searched free of charge and without an account, and registration to bid is itself free.
It is the national advertising portal for Scottish public procurement, which sits under separate Scottish legislation from the rest of the United Kingdom.
It carries Scottish below-threshold procurement that the United Kingdom-wide service does not publish.
Limitations
It is a notice database, not a supplier register. Publication establishes nothing about a supplier’s eligibility, standing or trustworthiness.
It covers Scotland only. Procurement elsewhere in the United Kingdom is published through different services.
Day-to-day operation is provided under contract by a commercial supplier on behalf of the Scottish Ministers, so the service is government-owned rather than government-built.
Submission guidance
Records are created through incorporation, registration, filing, or statutory processes.
Submission difficulty
Unknown
Typical listing quality
High
Typical approval time
Unknown
Review process
Unknown
Best for
Finding Scottish public sector contract opportunities that do not appear on the United Kingdom services.
Following Scottish public procurement, which runs under its own body of legislation.
Not recommended for
Procurement outside Scotland, which is published through Find a Tender, Contracts Finder or Sell2Wales.
Checking a supplier’s standing, which no notice database records.
Preparation checklist
No checklist recorded yet.
Common mistakes
No common mistakes recorded yet.
Establishing required submission assets requires submitting a listing and observing the result. That has not been done for any directory in this dataset, so it is not published rather than estimated.
What this directory accepts
Startups
Yes
SaaS products
Unknown
Enterprises
Yes
Agencies
Yes
Freelancers
Unknown
Local businesses
Yes
Developer tools
Unknown
Open-source projects
Unknown
Non-profits
Unknown
AI products
Unknown
Mobile apps
Unknown
Ecommerce stores
Unknown
Recommended industries
Suppliers to Scottish public sector bodies
How the PetroHrys Score was reached
Editorial trust 15%
9 / 10How far the entries a directory publishes can be relied on as accurate.
Business usefulness 15%
8 / 10How much practical use a listing there is to the business being listed.
Verification quality 12%
7 / 10How thoroughly the directory establishes that an entry is genuine before publishing it.
Platform reputation 10%
7 / 10How the platform is regarded in its field. Deliberately not a popularity, traffic or recognition measure.
Spam resistance 10%
9 / 10How well the directory keeps low-quality and promotional entries out.
Industry importance 10%
7 / 10How central the directory is to its sector, independently of how useful one listing is.
Long-term stability 10%
8 / 10How likely the directory is to still exist, and to still carry the entry, years from now.
Submission quality 8%
6 / 10What the submission process asks for and how workable it is for the business submitting.
Transparency 5%
8 / 10How openly the directory states its rules, costs and criteria.
Moderation quality 5%
7 / 10How the directory maintains entries after publication.
The PetroHrys Score is a first-party editorial assessment, not a third-party
authority metric. It is the weighted sum of the ten factors above, divided by ten, so the number
on this page is reproducible from the values shown. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10 by a human reviewer and weighted as shown. The definitions describe what was weighed, not a rubric: no threshold or formula maps a directory onto a value, and two reviewers could reach different numbers. The score is reproducible from the factors shown on every record, but it is an editorial judgement, not a measurement.