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002749 - Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for Business Durham Business Support Intelligence Platform (BSIP)

Software package and information systems
North East (UKC14)
Published value
£120,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Durham County Council: "002749 - Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for Business Durham Business Support Intelligence Platform (BSIP)". Published status: planning. Published value: £120,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityDurham County CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£120,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Durham County Council
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Durham County Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
13.4Bids / Report
14.8% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationModerate Concentration
HYMANS ROBERTSON LLPTop vendor: 33.7% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 417 active published awards; 27 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
HYMANS ROBERTSON LLP1 win£1,200,000
STEADFAST SECURITY SOLUTIONS LIMITED1 win£500,000
JOURNEO PLC1 win£407,821
BS PROJECT SERVICES LIMITED1 win£200,000
SANCTUARY PERSONNEL LIMITED1 win£200,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityDurham County Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published6 Jul 2026, 15:47 BST
Last source update6 Jul 2026, 15:47 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationSoftware package and information systems
Delivery area
North East (UKC14)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06c481
What is being bought
Business Durham aims to procure a provider who can design and implement an information system that will meet Business Durham's data requirements now and for the future. The project brief has been designed by a working group with representation from the four pillars of Business Durham plus marketing, business services and leadership teams. Each representative has provided an overview of their needs, in terms of inputting client/business data, reporting and analysis. Full system requirements can be accessed in the PME documents. This opportunity forms part of our preliminary market engagement, offering you the opportunity to share feedback and comments before the opportunity is released for formal tender submissions. Interested providers can access the written response questions, free of charge, by registering on the Open Portal at www.open-uk.org The deadline for completed responses is Tuesday 21st July at 12 noon.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £120,000
    6 Jul 2026, 15:47 BST
  2. Status changed to planning
    6 Jul 2026, 15:47 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    6 Jul 2026, 15:47 BST
  4. Buyer information updated
    6 Jul 2026, 15:47 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    6 Jul 2026, 15:47 BST
  2. Procedure published
    6 Jul 2026, 15:47 BST
  3. engagement
    21 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    This notice forms part of our preliminary market engagement, offering you the opportunity to share feedback and comments before the opportunity is released for formal tender submissions. Interested providers can access the written response questions, free of charge, by registering on the Open Portal at www.open-uk.org The deadline for completed responses is Tuesday 21st July at 12 noon.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Durham County Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PMPB-8772-VYWM
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  • Durham County Council
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PMPB-8772-VYWM
    Corten House, Dunholme Close, Durham, UKC14, DH1 5WB, GB
    zoe.embleton@durham.gov.uk
Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published