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003264 - Single Person Discount (SPD) Monitoring Service Review

Buyer: Durham County Council →

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BuyerDurham County Council
StatusClosed
Deadline13 Apr 2026
Value£104,000
Published16 Mar 2026

What is being bought

Previously a simple form was completed where the customer signs to confirm they are the only resident adult liable for Council Tax, before SPD is awarded. Whilst this option is still available to customers, from 2017 they can also complete an intelligent online open channel form that transfers to Durham County Council's (DCC) council tax system and automatically updates the liability awarding the discount. This has removed the need for any manual intervention from DCC Awards Officers.

Delivery location

UKC14, GB

Categories

Financial consultancy services 66171000Tax consultancy services 79221000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£104,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jun 2026 to 31 May 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Financial consultancy services, Tax consultancy servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 66. The category anchor is Financial consultancy services (66171000); 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 661,5053 median · 18.7 average (553 of 1,505 with a bid count)2.2 average (629 of 1,505 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer4Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKC144Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)711 median · 1 average (1 of 71 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 71 with named award suppliers)Not 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 policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

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-06692b
Latest release ID023496-2026
Latest release timestampMon Mar 16 2026 13:17:07 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/023496-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-04-13T10:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-04-03T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://www.open-uk.org/ 002360 - Single Person Discount (SPD) Monitoring Service Review Project # OPEN2026425 Documents can be accessed free of charge, using the reference above.
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£104,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
16 Mar 2026tenderUpdate023496-2026
13 Mar 2026tender022685-2026

All source data

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

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