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002696 - Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for a Commercial Property Finder

Buyer: Durham County Council →

BuyerDurham County Council
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
Value£22,500
Published7 Oct 2025

What is being bought

Durham County Council (DCC) are looking to explore the market options for a commercial property database. The system will be an integral part of our property database search facility offer that we provide to the business community. The contractor will be responsible for accurate and timely updates to the data and submitting monitoring reports of visitor engagement, registration and trend analysis. Overview of our Requirements: • To provide a property search capability for Business Durham (BD) • Provide a reliable search capability of land and property for BD staff and its clients and enquirers via a database • Be searchable by clients via the Business Durham website • Be accurate and up to date • Have a reporting function which allows presentation of result searches to clients and analysis of trends for management analysis on a quarterly basis • Include Business Durham properties • Public facing search fields • Interactive search map of County Durham • Ability to download a pdf of results • Login area for clients to access full details and review search results • Staff login area to access reports • Provide bi-annual detailed market trends reports. • Flag and highlight newly added properties • Highlight and promote Business Durham properties in the search results

Delivery location

UKC14, GB

Categories

Software package and information systems 48000000Commercial property management services 70332200Building consultancy services 71315200

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 15 Jan 2026 to 14 Jan 2028

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Software package and information systems, Commercial property management services, Building consultancy servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 48. The category anchor is Software package and information systems (48000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 484,2351 median · 9 average (1,449 of 4,235 with a bid count)1.6 average (1,671 of 4,235 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer13Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKC14151 median · 2.3 average (3 of 15 with a bid count)1 average (3 of 15 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)38Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
Market Engagement questionnaire can be accessed free of charge by registering on the Open Portal which be accessed via open-uk.org Deadline for completed submissions via the Open Portal is Friday 24th October 2025 at 12 noon.engagement24 Oct 2025scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05a9f4
Latest release ID063043-2025
Latest release timestampTue Oct 07 2025 16:27:13 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanning
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£22,500
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
7 Oct 2025planning063043-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
7 Oct 2025 · 063043-2025 · planning
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