PVG scheme (Scotland)
Personnel clearance & vetting · awarded by Disclosure Scotland · serves: Vetting & screening providers
- Notices demanding it
- 23
- a floor
- Said “must”
- 2
- explicit obligation
- Open right now
- 0
- Value gated
- £64m
- a floor
Published values on the notices that demand it — a floor, not a total.
This gates people, not the company. The cost and the lead time are per head, and they recur as your team changes — which makes it a hiring or partnering decision as much as a compliance one.
The demand curve
Notices demanding it per 10,000 published, by year — rate-normalised so corpus growth never masquerades as demand. Complete years only.
The pale bars are 2025 onward. The Procurement Act went live on 24 February 2025 and changed how notices are written, so the step across that date is partly a change in convention and not only a change in demand. We have not measured how much of it is which, so please do not read this as a trend.
The receipts
Notices that demand it, and the sentence each demand was found in. Nothing is counted here without one.
The City of Edinburgh Council
Tenderers are required to ensure that all staff members associated with this Service hold Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) membership which is managed and delivered by Disclosure Scotland.
- Marine Cranemandatory
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
The hydraulic system must be connected through a Danfoss PVG 32 valve.
Renfrewshire Council
SSSC Registration and PVG Checks;
Construction Industry Training Board
CITB are looking for a partner who can support with various reference checks, including a Right-to-Work Identity Verification Technology (IDVT) solution and enhanced DBS/PVG, international criminal checks,candidate referencing services and proof of address verifications.
South Lanarkshire Council
All installers will need to be PVG approved.
The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS")
Where required by the Participating Authority representative, the Contractor will ensure that the Contractor operatives entering any Participating Authority site are Disclosure Scotland or PVG Scheme cleared.
HEALTH FAMILY
VS PVG LHR JAN 21 (2) TT
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
SCA/PVG/DHSC/010
Logistics Buy
Virgin PVG Nov Extra
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No open tenders demand it at this moment — the list updates continuously.
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Get set up free →Method: Every count here is a floor. We match the text of the notice, and a notice description is a summary — most tender packs demand things it never mentions.“Said must” counts only explicit obligation language in the matched sentence itself; anything ambiguous is counted as a mention, never as mandatory. Trend compares rates per 10,000 notices per complete calendar year.