Darlington Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY·ONS register: Local-authority-district·Social housing register: Local authority·Local authority·North East England·Darlington
Official UK PPONPCRZ-3744-WXXZ
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Based on 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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1,730 awarded tenders, 801 different suppliers.
What they buyi
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
85 Health and social work services542 procedures · 268%45 Construction work18 procedures · 9%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting16 procedures · 8%80 Education and training services13 procedures · 6%48 Software package and information systems12 procedures · 6%71 Architectural, construction, engineering11 procedures · 5%34 Transport equipment and products8 procedures · 4%44 Construction structures and materials6 procedures · 3%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 202 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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Contract98%(198 notices)
198 of 202 notices are Contract (98%).Framework2%(4 notices)
4 of 202 notices are Framework (2%).
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Direct award67%(136 notices)
136 of 202 notices are Direct award (67%).Limited / restricted16%(33 notices)
33 of 202 notices are Limited / restricted (16%).Route not published8%(16 notices)
16 of 202 notices are Route not published (8%).Open6%(13 notices)
13 of 202 notices are Open (6%).Selective2%(4 notices)
4 of 202 notices are Selective (2%).
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Based on 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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Based on 5 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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Based on 202 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Based on 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
Who wins herei
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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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| Care Line Homecare Limited | 235 | 13.6% | 232 | 238 | 21 Jan 2030 |
| Springfield Home Care Services Limited | 188 | 10.9% | 185 | 199 | 5 Nov 2026 |
| North East Autism Society | 28 | 1.6% | 7 | 28 | 29 Aug 2024 |
| Reach-Out Care Ltd | 18 | 1% | 0 | 18 | 6 Apr 2024 |
| Darlington Association on Disability | 17 | 1% | 5 | 17 | 29 Oct 2026 |
| ALD Group Ltd | 16 | 0.9% | 0 | 16 | 23 Aug 2023 |
| Chinite Resourcing Ltd | 14 | 0.8% | 13 | 14 | 15 Sept 2026 |
| BARCHESTER HEALTHCARE HOMES LIMITED | 12 | 0.7% | 1 | 12 | 20 Jan 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 26% of 1,730 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 801 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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Largest published awards i | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Town Centre Development Partner | Cityheart Ltd | — | — | £140,000,000 † |
| Residential Placement for 388321 | Hopscotch Care Limited | — | 1.6 yrs | £78,691,907 ≈ £50m/yr |
| 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 † |
| 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
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1,678 of 1,824 contracts carry an end date, 17 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| PB2024-01613 - Provision of a solo residential children's home. Child ID: 389483 | 360 CRS | 25 Nov 2026 | £1,147,080 |
| PB2026-00476 - Supported Accommodation Placement for 375114 | Jigsaw Recovery Project CIC | 26 Nov 2026 | £72,835 |
| PB2024-01611 - Child ID: 367998 Provision of regulated Supported Accommodation: | ROC Group Family Support | 27 Nov 2026 | £516,186 |
| ID 5504458- Placement Type 1 - Standard Support (0-4, 5-10, 11-15, 16 -17years) | The Children's Family Trust | 27 Nov 2026 | £166,816 |
| ID 5504460- Placement Type 1 - Standard Support (0-4, 5-10, 11-15, 16 -17years) | The Children's Family Trust | 27 Nov 2026 | £166,816 |
| PB2021-00570 Wifi For Darlington Housing Schemes | British Telecommunications Company | 30 Nov 2026 | £43,000 |
| PB2023-00963 - Adult Domiciliary Care Placement for ID 358652 | Helping Hands Darlington | 5 Dec 2026 | £254,739 |
| PB2022-00890 - Adult Domiciliary Care Package | Helping Hands Homecare Durham | 5 Dec 2026 | £265,358 |
| PB2022-00896 - Adult residential Placement | ascot care | 5 Dec 2026 | £310,754 |
Soonest 9 of 221 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 248 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
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Contracts Finder adds 1,629 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.
About this data
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 1,678 of 1,824 published contracts have an end date; 17 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.