Durham County Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

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Open now11next deadline 2 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months269+94% vs prior 12 months (139)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot419.6% single-bid · 46 bid reports
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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 46 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share7%of 401 awarded procedures · 711 suppliers
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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.

401 awarded tenders, 711 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months10820 within 6 months
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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 award value, 24m£544mnet · on 227 of 664 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 65%
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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

11 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

All 11 open notices for this authority →

What they buy
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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

How they buy
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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 · 408 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 82% (335 notices)
  • Framework 18% (72 notices)
  • Dynamic purchasing system 0% (1 notices)
Procedure route
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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 38% (156 notices)
  • Open 32% (130 notices)
  • Route not published 15% (61 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 12% (47 notices)
  • Selective 3% (14 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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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 46 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4robust · n=4619.6% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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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 30 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

29 daysrobust · n=30
Notice amendments
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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 408 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

0113 of 408 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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 25 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=25

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Unite Procurement Ltdframework/DPS on 10133.2%23417 Dec 2024
Sirius Demolitionframework/DPS on 882%62523 Oct 2025
Waythrough82%51229 Jun 2026
Karbon Homes Ltd71.7%475 Aug 2026
GLC Projects Ltdframework/DPS on 661.5%41823 Oct 2025
SJ SSC LIMITED T/A SportsCool Durham61.5%365 Aug 2026
AKARI CARE LIMITEDframework/DPS on 151.2%4615 Oct 2025
Steam Ahead CIC (trading as STEAM Ahead Education)51.2%2513 Apr 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 401 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 711 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£544mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 227 of 664 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 65%; a further 79 published a VAT-inclusive amount only (£1.1m inc. VAT, kept apart).
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£62k middle valuerobust · n=227Middle half £35k–£176k; 104 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Residual Waste Management Contract Extension (VEAT Notification)SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd——£92,000,000 †
0-25 Family Health ServiceHarrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust——£78,771,870 †
0-25 Family Health ServiceHarrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust—2 yrs£78,078,954 †
≈ £39m/yr
0-25 Family Health ServiceHarrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust—1.3 yrs£74,721,154 †
≈ £60m/yr
County Durham Integrated Sexual Health ServiceCounty Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (CDDFT)——£27,765,973 †

Contracts ending
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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 · 461 of 964 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 108 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 548 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
003257 - Digital Road Management PlatformIndustry specific software packageOpen23 Sept 2026£600,000
Supported Living Support Services for People with Learning Disabilities or Mental Health Needs FrameworkFramework4 lotsHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete28 Sept 2026£289,219,320
Lift Fabrication FrameworkFrameworkAwarded / complete28 Sept 2026—
Wolsingham Primary School Roofing WorksAwarded / complete25 Sept 2026—
003761 - Seasonal Waste Composition Analysis of Durham County Council Municipal WasteRefuse and waste related servicesPlanning23 Sept 2026—
Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for The Provision of FCA Regulated Debt Advice Services in County DurhamFinancial consultancy servicesPlanning23 Sept 2026—
003625 - Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for the Provision of Meals at Aycliffe Secure CentreCatering services for other enterprises or other institutionsPlanning23 Sept 2026£2,000,000
Todhills Landfill Site - Replace current leachate tank with like for like new tankAwarded / complete23 Sept 2026—
Contract for Ancestry library editionAwarded / complete23 Sept 2026—
003730 - Traffic Signal Cable SupplyFrameworkAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
003843 - Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for Virtual Reality (VR) HeadsetsComputer equipment and suppliesPlanning17 Sept 2026£15,000
Horden Masterplan - Planning Application, for Third, Fourth and Fifth Street - Project Management ServicesAwarded / complete17 Sept 2026—
Housing, Health & Wellbeing Hospital Discharge Support ServiceHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete16 Sept 2026£3,100,000
Traffic Signals Equipment (003789)Awarded / complete16 Sept 2026—
003325 - Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for a Pensions Administration SystemIndustry specific software packagePlanning15 Sept 2026£1,600,000
Grant to Third Party VCS ProvidersAwarded / complete10 Sept 2026—
Solo Overnight Respite SolutionAwarded / complete9 Sept 2026—
Specialist Supported Housing for People with Complex Needs (Adults and or Young People with Learning Disability / Autism)Health and social work servicesPlanning9 Sept 2026—
Select List of Alternative Education Provision for the WoodlandsFrameworkEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete9 Sept 2026£52,000,000
Provision of Manned Security Services for Durham Bus StationSecurity servicesAwarded / complete3 Sept 2026£500,000

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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 (£783m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 686 award records on 303 procedures (664 to a single canonical supplier, 22 multi-supplier). 198 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 79 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: 461 of 964 published contracts carry a period end; 108 end within 18 months, 20 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (21 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-COH-0GB-COH-01892372GB-FTS-11671GB-FTS-135199GB-FTS-136719GB-FTS-136905GB-FTS-141319GB-FTS-156030GB-FTS-21345GB-FTS-27417GB-FTS-32787GB-FTS-34318GB-FTS-36614GB-FTS-3691GB-FTS-48673GB-FTS-51014GB-FTS-55196GB-FTS-57602GB-FTS-61214GB-FTS-8336GB-FTS-93559

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