Darlington Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Official UK PPONPCRZ-3744-WXXZ
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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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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 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
214 awarded tenders, 236 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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.
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 services25 procedures · 12%45 Construction work8 procedures · 4%34 Transport equipment and products3 procedures · 1%44 Construction structures and materials3 procedures · 1%48 Software package and information systems3 procedures · 1%31 Electrical machinery2 procedures · 1%32 Radio, television, communication2 procedures · 1%35 Security, fire-fighting, police2 procedures · 1%How 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 · 201 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 93% (187 notices)
- Framework 6% (13 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 0% (1 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.
- Direct award 64% (129 notices)
- Limited / restricted 18% (36 notices)
- Route not published 8% (16 notices)
- Open 7% (15 notices)
- Selective 2% (5 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 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 4 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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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 201 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 4 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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| North East Autism Society | 6 | 2.8% | 6 | 6 | 8 Dec 2025 |
| ROC SOLID | 5 | 2.3% | 5 | 5 | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Primary Healthcare Darlington | 4 | 1.9% | 4 | 4 | 10 Mar 2026 |
| County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust | 4 | 1.9% | 4 | 4 | 17 Mar 2026 |
| Sanctuary Home Care | 4 | 1.9% | 2 | 6 | 28 May 2026 |
| Esh Homes Limited | 4 | 1.9% | 2 | 5 | 20 Feb 2025 |
| St. Cuthbert's Care Limited | 3 | 1.4% | 3 | 4 | 13 Feb 2026 |
| Darlington Association on Disability | 3 | 1.4% | 3 | 3 | 31 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 214 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 236 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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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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| Town Centre Development Partner | Cityheart Ltd | — | — | £140,000,000 † |
| PB2025-00214 Warm Homes - Social Housing Fund (Wave3) | RE:GEN YORKSHIRE AND EAST MIDLANDS LIMITED | — | — | £13,907,000 † |
| Planning, Survey, Design, Supply and Installation of Warm Homes Local Grant for Retrofit and Decarbonisation Works in the Tees Valley | E.ON UK GREEN FUNDING SOLUTIONS LIMITED | — | — | £13,521,000 † |
| T2013/78/PE Personal care and domestic support for people in Extra Care housing | Making Space | — | — | £11,600,000 † |
| M & E Works, Mini Golf and Refurbishment of 2 Studios and diving pool at the Dolphin Centre | Willmott Dixon Construction Limited | — | — | £6,641,266 † |
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 · 141 of 290 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Asphalt Rejuvenation 26/27 | ROADTECHS EUROPE LIMITED | 1 Oct 2026 | £80,000 |
| Tenant Satisfaction Measures Survey | BMG Research Limited | 26 Oct 2026 | £63,000 |
| Level 5 Principles of Commissioning for Wellbeing Course | Hasca Limited | 31 Oct 2026 | £13,900 |
| Supported Accommodation Placement- ID 382797 | Jigsaw Recovery Project CIC | 3 Nov 2026 | £193,572 |
| Dolphin Centre Cost Consultant | Driver Project Services | 18 Dec 2026 | £46,550 |
| ONE DARLINGTON MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTION | Smart Distribution Solutions Limited | 31 Dec 2026 | £103,433 |
| Housing Services - Regulatory Compliance and Improvement Project | DAVID TOLSON PARTNERSHIP LIMITED | 19 Jan 2027 | £6,650 |
| Placement for ID 5567668 | ROC SOLID | 1 Feb 2027 | £91,711 |
| Maintenance and 24 Hour Call off/Repairs Service of Doors, Gates and Lifeline Equipment | Secureshield Ltd | 28 Feb 2027 | £173,000 |
| Infrastructure Development Agreement Faverdale/Burtree Garden Village | Homes England | 13 Mar 2027 | £1,450,000 |
Soonest 10 of 38 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 244 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 (£10m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 224 award records on 184 procedures (220 to a single canonical supplier, 4 multi-supplier). 100 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 45 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- 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: 141 of 290 published contracts carry a period end; 38 end within 18 months, 10 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (11 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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