Tees Valley Combined Authority: UK public procurement profile
Local authority·North East England·Darlington
Official UK PPONPCYV-2926-WZMP
Open now2next deadline 25 Sept 2026Notices, last 12 months227+320% vs prior 12 months (54)Typical bids per notice328% single-bid · 50 bid reportsTop-3 supplier share19%of 204 awarded procedures · 147 suppliersContracts ending ≤18 months4929 within 6 monthsPublished award value, 24m£33mon 160 of 199 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 30%
Open notices
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| TVCA-PROC-0911 - Adult Skills Fund 2026-27, 2027-28 and 2028-29 | 25 Sept 2026 | 7d | £21,000,000 |
What they buy
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting27 procedures · 10% · 1 open45 Construction work22 procedures · 8%63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel16 procedures · 6%73 Research and development services15 procedures · 5%60 Transport services (except waste transport)11 procedures · 4%34 Transport equipment and products10 procedures · 4%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet10 procedures · 4%71 Architectural, construction, engineering9 procedures · 3%How they buy
Last 24 months · 281 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
- Contract 98% (276 notices)
- Framework 2% (5 notices)
Procedure route
- Direct award 43% (121 notices)
- Open 25% (69 notices)
- Limited / restricted 16% (45 notices)
- Route not published 15% (42 notices)
- Selective 1% (4 notices)
Typical bids per notice3robust · n=50Median of published bid reports · 28% of reports show a single bidder. Includes framework and DPS notices.
Deadline → award15 daysrobust · n=29Median days from submission deadline to first award notice.
Notice amendments0Median amendments per notice · 99 of 281 notices amended.
Award vs estimate8.2% below estimaterobust · n=22Median (estimate − award) / estimate on single-lot, single-supplier GBP pairs; vehicles excluded. Negative = awarded above estimate.
Who wins here
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambient People Limited | 16 | 7.8% | 16 | 16 | 15 Sept 2026 |
| CLEVELAND TRANSIT LTD | 15 | 7.4% | 14 | 23 | 8 Apr 2026 |
| ARRIVA DURHAM COUNTY LIMITED | 8 | 3.9% | 8 | 9 | 8 Apr 2026 |
| Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | 6 | 2.9% | 6 | 6 | 7 Aug 2026 |
| PENNA PLC | 6 | 2.9% | 6 | 6 | 10 Sept 2026 |
| Ove Arup & Partners Ltd | 5 | 2.5% | 3 | 6 | 17 Sept 2025 |
| FootAnstey LLP | 4 | 2% | 4 | 4 | 26 May 2026 |
| ERNST & YOUNG LLP | 4 | 2% | 4 | 4 | 18 May 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 204 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 147 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
Published award value (24m)£33mSum of published values on 160 of 199 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 30%. Not spend and not a budget: notices sometimes republish a framework total or a mis-scaled figure — the largest rows are listed below so you can check.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)£88k medianrobust · n=160Middle half £45k–£180k; 37 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
Contracts ending
Published end dates only · 161 of 203 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 49 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 310 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| TVCA-PROC-0660 - Bus Timetable Production | Awarded / complete | 23 Jul 2026 | — |
| TVCA-PROC-0863 - Business Tees Valley website Platform DevelopmentComputer platforms | Awarded / complete | 22 Jul 2026 | £1,200,000 |
| TVCA-PROC-0706 - Development of Tees Valley Spatial Development Strategy | Awarded / complete | 22 Jul 2026 | — |
| TVCA-PROC-0899 - Interim Finance Support | Awarded / complete | 20 Jul 2026 | — |
| TVCA-PROC-0896 - BIA for Middlesbrough Station Improvement Programme Work Package 3: New Platform 3 | Awarded / complete | 16 Jul 2026 | — |
| TVCA-PROC-0789 - Extension to Bus Service 36A | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | — |
| TVCA-PROC-0772 - Extension to Bus Service 10 | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | — |
| TVCA-PROC-0718 Redcar Bus Service 3 | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | — |
| TVCA-PROC-0717 Darlington Bus Services 3 &4 | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | — |
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 (£282m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 205 award records on 189 procedures (199 to a single canonical supplier, 3 multi-supplier, 3 with no supplier published). Typical award uses single-supplier GBP values below £5bn, excludes framework/DPS ceilings and — as a heuristic for republished framework totals — any amount repeated three or more times inside this authority’s 24-month awards; 75 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award and amendments come from the nightly buyer analytics row (v8, award-identity grain). Evidence tiers: robust ≥5, moderate 3–4, indicative 1–2.
- Contract end dates: 161 of 203 published contracts carry a period end; 49 end within 18 months, 29 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (17 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PCYV-2926-WZMP