Official UK procurement notice
002754 - Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for a Cleaning Service at Bishop Auckland Bus Station
Authority: Durham County Council (Local council)
Sectors: Cleaning & Environmental Services (90) Delivery: North East (UKC14)
Planned pipeline value£240,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 31 Oct 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 4 Jan 2028 · up to 4 Jan 2030 with extensions · starts 5 Jan 2026
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDurham County Council (DCC) are looking to explore the market options for a single provider to provide Cleaning Services at Bishop Auckland Bus Station.
Bishop Auckland Bus Station is currently under construction, with an anticipated completion date of November 2025 and will be opened to the public in early 2026.
CPV: Cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- 25 Sept 2025, 17:21 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Sept 2025, 17:21 BST
- Authority reference
OPEN20251677- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-059889- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05a28eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
25 Sept 2025 → 5 Jan 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published399 days ago25 Sept 2025, 17:21 BST
- Market engagement384 days ago10 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
Written response questionnaire available to access free of charge at open-uk.org
Deadline for written responses is Friday 10th October 2025 at 10am
- Tender notice expected363 days ago31 Oct 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts298 days ago5 Jan 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published25 Sept 2025, 17:21 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender