The Association of North East Councils Limited: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Local authority·North East England·Gateshead·Central purchasing body on 12 of 52 notices
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Open now6next deadline 25 Sept 2026Notices, last 12 months36+125% vs prior 12 months (16)Top-3 supplier share6%of 34 awarded procedures · 348 suppliersContracts ending ≤18 months3none within 6 monthsPublished award value, 24m£1.0mnet · on 2 of 88 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
Open notices
6 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asbestos Management | 25 Sept 2026 | 5d | £125,000,000 |
| Vehicle Restraint Systems | 30 Sept 2026 | 10d | £50,000,000 |
| NEPO219 - Building Materials & Managed Stores | 16 Oct 2026 | 26d | £800,000,000 |
| NEPO303 Meter Operator Services | 23 Oct 2026 | 33d | £15,000,000 |
| NEPO219 Building Materials & Managed Stores DPS | 31 Jan 2027 | 133d | £350,000,000 |
| NEPO528 Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of British Sign Language Interpreters | 31 Aug 2028 | 711d | £2,000,000 |
What they buy
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting13 procedures · 25% · 3 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering11 procedures · 21% · 2 open45 Construction work9 procedures · 17% · 2 open34 Transport equipment and products8 procedures · 15% · 3 open30 Office and computing machinery7 procedures · 13%66 Financial and insurance services7 procedures · 13%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances6 procedures · 12% · 2 open42 Industrial machinery6 procedures · 12% · 2 openHow they buy
Last 24 months · 52 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
- Framework 83% (43 notices)
- Contract 12% (6 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 6% (3 notices)
Procedure route
- Open 54% (28 notices)
- Selective 21% (11 notices)
- Route not published 19% (10 notices)
- Direct award 4% (2 notices)
- Limited / restricted 2% (1 notices)
Typical bids per lot10indicative · n=1Median of published bid counts per lot on contested contract notices · 0% of lots drew a single bid. Direct awards and framework / DPS lots are left out — vehicles draw a different crowd.
Deadline → award118 daysrobust · n=9Median days from submission deadline to first award notice.
Notice amendments3Median amendments per notice · 33 of 52 notices amended.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TARMAC TRADING LIMITED | 2 | 5.9% | 2 | 111 | 8 Oct 2025 |
| HOLCIM UK LIMITED | 2 | 5.9% | 2 | 87 | 8 Oct 2025 |
| HANSON QUARRY PRODUCTS EUROPE LIMITED | 2 | 5.9% | 2 | 60 | 8 Oct 2025 |
| Lyreco UK Limited | 2 | 5.9% | 2 | 8 | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Banner Group Ltd. | 2 | 5.9% | 2 | 6 | 30 Jul 2026 |
| COLAS LIMITED | 2 | 5.9% | 2 | 6 | 2 Sept 2026 |
| Thompsons of Prudhoe Limited | 2 | 5.9% | 2 | 5 | 6 Aug 2026 |
| BATES OFFICE SERVICES LTD | 2 | 5.9% | 2 | 5 | 30 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 34 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 348 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
Published award value (24m)£1.0mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 2 of 88 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%; a further 1 published a VAT-inclusive amount only (£2.5m inc. VAT, kept apart). 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.
| Largest published awards | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEPO Procurement Training Provider | SR Supply Chain Consultants | — | — | £1,000,000 † |
| Collection and Management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and Batteries | Valpak Ltd | — | — | £1 † |
Contracts ending
Published end dates only · 226 of 303 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEPO407 - Frozen Food | JJ Food Service Ltd | 17 Jul 2027 | £10,500,000 |
| NEPO407 - Frozen Food | P.F.D.(CARLISLE)LIMITED | 17 Jul 2027 | £3,500,000 |
| NEPO407 - Frozen Food | Sysco GB Limited | 17 Jul 2027 | £6,000,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 67 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEPRO Total TalentBusiness and management consultancy services | Planning | 15 Sept 2026 | £25,000,000,000 |
| NEPRO FourArchitectural | Planned | 14 Sept 2026 | £6,000,000,000 |
| NEPO214 - Grounds Maintenance, Equipment & PlantAgricultural and horticultural products | Awarded / complete | 10 Sept 2026 | £200,000,000 |
| NEPO411 - FurnitureFurniture (incl. office furniture) | Awarded / complete | 10 Sept 2026 | £160,000,000 |
| NEPO502 Office Educational and Catering SuppliesCatering supplies | Awarded / complete | 9 Sept 2026 | £65,000,000 |
| NEPO408 - Lifts, Escalator & Related Equipment: Maintenance, Repair & RefurbishmentEscalators | Planned | 3 Sept 2026 | £62,400,000 |
| Civil Engineering & Infrastructure WorksArchitectural | Awarded / complete | 2 Sept 2026 | £1,000,000,000 |
| Library Books and Digital ContentCompact disk (CD) and digital versatile disk (DVD) reader and/or burner | Awarded / complete | 1 Sept 2026 | £68,000,000 |
| NEPO Call-Off for NEPRO Innovation | Awarded / complete | 21 Aug 2026 | — |
| Asbestos Removal WorksAsbestos removal services | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2026 | £4,500,000 |
| Traffic Management ServicesTraffic control services | Planned | 30 Jul 2026 | £20,000,000 |
| NEPO233 Retrofit and Energy Efficiency WorksBuilding installation work | Planned | 28 Jul 2026 | £500,000,000 |
| Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Highway Infrastructure SurveysHighways consultancy services | Open | 14 Jul 2026 | £17,500,000 |
| NEPO523 - Employee Wellbeing ServicesBicycles | Planned | 10 Jul 2026 | — |
| NEPO407 - Food and General ProvisionsFood | Planning | 18 Jun 2026 | £200,000,000 |
| NEPO407 Food and General ProvisionsFood | Planned | 17 Jun 2026 | £200,000,000 |
| NEPO303 Meter Operator ServicesMeters | Planned | 22 May 2026 | — |
| NEPO210 Highways Surfacing WorksConstruction | Awarded / complete | 21 May 2026 | £500,000,000 |
| NEPO217 Winter Bureau, Weather Forecasting & Outstation MaintenanceMaintenance of data network equipment | Planned | 8 May 2026 | £10,000,000 |
| NEPO532 Financial Innovation and Digital PaymentsFinancial and insurance services | Planned | 22 Apr 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 (£107m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 308 award records on 28 procedures (88 to a single canonical supplier, 205 multi-supplier, 15 with no supplier published). Typical award uses single-supplier VAT-exclusive 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; 2 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 1 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- Bid counts (per lot, contested notices only, PA 2023 final-stage tenders where published), 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: 226 of 303 published contracts carry a period end; 3 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (12 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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