Durham County Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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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 46 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.
401 awarded tenders, 711 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.
Open notices
11 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Events & Activities Countywide | 2 Oct 2026 | 2d | £300,000 |
| 003550 - Flagship Festival 2027 | 8 Oct 2026 | 8d | £1,500,000 |
| 003635 - Provision of Manned Security Guard Services at Durham County Council Depots | 13 Oct 2026 | 13d | £1,000,000 |
| 003626 - Provision of Manned Security Guard Services at Aycliffe Secure Centre | 15 Oct 2026 | 15d | £900,000 |
| Supply of Cameras and Associated Equipment Used for Traffic Monitoring Purposes | 19 Oct 2026 | 19d | £200,000 |
| Appropriate Adult Service. | 20 Oct 2026 | 20d | £435,287 |
| Food Festival Curator | 23 Oct 2026 | 23d | £80,000 |
| Contract for Cash Collection & Cash In Transit Services | 26 Oct 2026 | 26d | £400,000 |
| 003708 - Provision of Manned Security Guard Services at NETPark | 28 Oct 2026 | 28d | £395,000 |
| 003271 - Online Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) application provider | 29 Oct 2026 | 29d | £1,250,000 |
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 services48 procedures · 12% · 1 open45 Construction work33 procedures · 8%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting27 procedures · 7% · 6 open48 Software package and information systems21 procedures · 5% · 2 open90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental12 procedures · 3%98 Other community, social and personal services11 procedures · 3%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting10 procedures · 2% · 2 open34 Transport equipment and products10 procedures · 2%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 · 408 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 82% (335 notices)
- Framework 18% (72 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 38% (156 notices)
- Open 32% (130 notices)
- Route not published 15% (61 notices)
- Limited / restricted 12% (47 notices)
- Selective 3% (14 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 46 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 30 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 408 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 25 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
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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| Unite Procurement Ltd | 13 | 3.2% | 2 | 34 | 17 Dec 2024 |
| Sirius Demolition | 8 | 2% | 6 | 25 | 23 Oct 2025 |
| Waythrough | 8 | 2% | 5 | 12 | 29 Jun 2026 |
| Karbon Homes Ltd | 7 | 1.7% | 4 | 7 | 5 Aug 2026 |
| GLC Projects Ltd | 6 | 1.5% | 4 | 18 | 23 Oct 2025 |
| SJ SSC LIMITED T/A SportsCool Durham | 6 | 1.5% | 3 | 6 | 5 Aug 2026 |
| AKARI CARE LIMITED | 5 | 1.2% | 4 | 6 | 15 Oct 2025 |
| Steam Ahead CIC (trading as STEAM Ahead Education) | 5 | 1.2% | 2 | 5 | 13 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.
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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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| Residual Waste Management Contract Extension (VEAT Notification) | SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd | — | — | £92,000,000 † |
| 0-25 Family Health Service | Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £78,771,870 † |
| 0-25 Family Health Service | Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust | — | 2 yrs | £78,078,954 † ≈ £39m/yr |
| 0-25 Family Health Service | Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust | — | 1.3 yrs | £74,721,154 † ≈ £60m/yr |
| County Durham Integrated Sexual Health Service | County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (CDDFT) | — | — | £27,765,973 † |
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 · 461 of 964 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| 002452 - Redstor Data Management | Redstor Limited (UK) | 30 Sept 2026 | £62,400 |
| Supply and Install Ceramic Wall and Floor Tiling at Stanley Bus Station | R Parker (Wall & Floor Tiling Contractors ) LTD | 9 Oct 2026 | £77,700 |
| Supply and Installation of Cladding at Stanley Bus Station | Construction Envelope Contracts | 9 Oct 2026 | £106,405 |
| Positive Behavioural Support Level 6/7 | Northumbria University at Newcastle | 30 Oct 2026 | £32,994 |
| Window Cleaning Service | City Clean (Northern) LTd | 30 Oct 2026 | £40,000 |
| 002752 - Provision of Food Festival Website, Branding And Social Media Assets | Luna Creative Ltd | 31 Oct 2026 | £26,000 |
| Kaseya Datto Remote Monitoring and Management for schools | Kaseya | 31 Oct 2026 | £67,905 |
| Durham City Heat Network - Phase 2 DPD | City Science Corporation Limited | 31 Oct 2026 | £120,000 |
| Grove Skate Park | Bendcrete Leisure LTD | 1 Nov 2026 | £109,749 |
| Residential Placement for an Individual | CAMBIAN WHINFELL SCHOOL LIMITED | 15 Nov 2026 | £458,893 |
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
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.
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