Procurement of goods and services
As the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) provides administrative support and services to the Council, all procurement tenders are carried out in accordance with the SCTS polices. For more information, please see our page on our relationship with the SCTS.
All contracts with external suppliers with a value in excess of £25,000 are listed below.
Goods or services |
Date tender issued |
Date contract awarded |
Value of contract |
Supplier |
Design and creation of the Scottish Sentencing Council website and website maintenance and support thereafter. |
13 April 2015 |
12 May 2015 |
£30,000 (excluding VAT) |
Lewis Creative Consultants Limited |
Focus-group based studies regarding sentencing by Scottish courts |
22 October 2018 |
19 November 2018 |
£39,982 (excluding VAT) |
ScotCen Social Research |
Nationally representative telephone survey of public perceptions of sentencing by Scottish courts |
5 November 2018 |
10 January 2019 |
£45,000 (excluding VAT) |
Ipsos MORI Scotland |
Qualitative exploration of the attitudes of young people, including young offenders, to the sentencing of young people |
15 March 2019 |
26 June 2019 |
£28,236.60 (excluding VAT) |
University of the West of Scotland |
Focus groups exploring views on sentencing for sexual assault and rape |
17 January 2023 |
03 March 2023 |
£48,675.57 (excluding VAT) |
University of Glasgow |
Focus groups exploring views on sentence discounting* *exceeds £25,000 when VAT is taken into account |
17 January 2023 |
03 March 2023 |
£24,958.00 (excluding VAT) |
University of Glasgow |
This page was last updated on 13 April 2023.