Official UK procurement notice
002225 - Removals and Storage for the Homeless Prevention Service
Authority: Durham County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council are seeking a single provider to remove, transport and deliver various items of Furniture/Personal Belongings from one house premise to another or directly to the storage facility. The majority of removals will be within the Durham County area however, on occasion, addresses may fall outside of the County Durham area. Moves will include personal belongings for a domestic house including households of any size and where storage of such belongings may at times be required. The provider will be required to store possession from up to 50 houses at any one time.
Please note, the providers storage facility must be within 30 miles from the border of Durham County as it is essential to enable service users to access their belongings if required.
CPV: Storage and warehousing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£350,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (3)
- Technical Questions: 50%
- Price: 40%
- Social Value: 10%
Published award criteria (3)
- Technical Questions: Range of quality questions including Infrastructure and Logistical Readiness, Staffing and Communication and Contingency.
- Price: Bidders are requested to submit pricing for removal service, packaging materials and storage element of contract. Each section is broken down into specific requirements eg. hourly rate for 7.5 tonne vehicle.
- Social Value
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 5 Jun 2025, 10:19 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Sept 2025, 09:25 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 21 Jul 2025
- Authority reference
OPEN2025630- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-030120- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-054346Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 7 Jul 2025, 10:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 3 Jul 2025, 11:00 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Documents can be access free of charge by registering on www.open-uk.org ↗ and must be submitted via this portal.
Timeline
5 Jun 2025 → 1 Oct 2025 · 8 dates- Tender notice published5 Jun 2025, 10:19 BST
- Clarification questions by3 Jul 2025, 11:00 BST
- Submission deadline7 Jul 2025, 10:00 BST
- Award decision expected by21 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
- Assessment summaries sent26 Aug 2025, 00:00 BST
- Standstill ends4 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
- Latest notice published5 Sept 2025, 09:25 BST
- Contract starts388 days ago1 Oct 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
6 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 5 Jun 2025- Tender notice published5 Jun 2025, 10:19 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published5 Jun 2025, 13:16 BSTUK4
- Contract award notice published26 Aug 2025, 09:49 BSTUK6
- Status changed to complete26 Aug 2025, 09:49 BST
- Contract details notice published5 Sept 2025, 09:25 BSTUK7
- Contract signature expected5 Sept 2025, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-06: 1 release · 5 Jun 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN AND ILLINGWORTH LIMITED1 Oct 2025 – 30 Sept 2028 · up to 30 Sept 2030Extensions: The Contract period is 3 years, with the options to extend for 2 x 12 month periods from the contract end date, subject to contract requirements review, Commissioner approval and grant funding. | £350,000 | 26 Aug 2025 | Awarded |
Contracts
002225 - Removals and Storage for the Homeless Prevention Service · BROWN AND ILLINGWORTH LIMITED
- Signed
- 5 Sept 2025
- Value
- £350,000
- Period
- 1 Oct 2025 – 30 Sept 2028 · up to 30 Sept 2030 with extensions
- Status
- active
- Extensions
- The Contract period is 3 years, with the options to extend for 2 x 12 month periods from the contract end date, subject to contract requirements review, Commissioner approval and grant funding.
3 agreed KPIs: Account Management · Response times · Data
- Account Management
- Response times
- Data
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3final-stage tenders · 4 at stage one | 3 | 0 | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- BROWN AND ILLINGWORTH LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender