COUNTY DURHAM AND DARLINGTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: NHS TRUST·Central government·North East England·Darlington
Official UK PPONPQLT-2871-PCJYWebsitecddft.nhs.uk ↗
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| PR Agency Services | 12 Oct 2026 | 12d | £1,200,000 |
| Provision of Lease Car Management Services | 16 Oct 2026 | 16d | £386,280 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
85 Health and social work services6 procedures · 40%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals3 procedures · 20%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 13% · 1 open48 Software package and information systems2 procedures · 13%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 7% · 1 openHow they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 15 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 100% (15 notices)
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
- Route not published 33% (5 notices)
- Limited / restricted 27% (4 notices)
- Direct award 20% (3 notices)
- Open 13% (2 notices)
- Selective 7% (1 notices)
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 1 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 15 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| DURHAM CITY THERAPY LTD | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | 24 Jul 2026 |
| Story uk | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | 31 Jan 2025 |
| Knowles Associates - Total Fleet Management Limited | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | 2 Feb 2026 |
| Silverdale Family Practice | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | 8 May 2026 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | 1 Jul 2026 |
| Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | 13 Apr 2026 |
| THE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | 13 Apr 2026 |
7 awarded procedures across 7 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Contract for the Provision of Integrated Mass Media, Creative and Advertising Agency for Fresh & Balance | Story uk | — | — | £6,000,000 † |
| Provision of Laboratory Services | THE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | — | — | £4,127,266 † |
| Provision of Clinical Pathology Services | Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £500,941 † |
| Provision of Clinical Laboratory Services - Molecular Pathology Diagnostic Services (PD-L1 Testing Service) | UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | — | — | £131,871 † |
| Provision of Lease Car Management Services | Knowles Associates - Total Fleet Management Limited | 2 Feb 2026 | 1 yrs | £85,500 ≈ £86k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 1 of 6 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Provision of Lease Car Management Services | Knowles Associates - Total Fleet Management Limited, Knowles Associates - Total Fleet Management Limited | 1 Mar 2027 | £85,500 |
Recent procedures
Latest 17 of 17 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£1.6m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 7 award records on 7 procedures (7 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 4 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 1 of 6 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 1 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (5 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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