Official UK procurement notice
003626 - Provision of Manned Security Guard Services at Aycliffe Secure Centre
Authority: Durham County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council requires a Security Provider to deliver manned security guard services at Aycliffe Secure Centre. Aycliffe Secure Centre is registered to provide care and education for up to 34 vulnerable and complex male and female young people, aged between 10-18. There is also a Transition Home attached to the secure building which can accommodate up to 4 young people moving from within the Secure Centre to community-based accommodation.
Further details of the requirements are set out in Document 3a. Contract Specification which can be accessed free of charge at www.open-uk.org
CPV: Security services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£900,000
- Value
- £900,000 exc. VAT · £1,080,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
The standard service requirements may be subject to change during the Contract Term, including increases or decreases to operational hours, staffing levels, locations, or the nature of the services required. The Supplier shall be required to support the Council in implementing any such changes, whether temporary or permanent. • Where the standard requirement (excluding emergency provision) is increased, the Council more…
will provide not less than 14 calendar days notice. • Where the standard requirement is decreased, including any reduction in operational hours and/or staffing levels, the Council will provide not less than 30 calendar days notice. The Supplier acknowledges that service requirements may vary over the Contract Term and shall have no entitlement to compensation, loss of profit, cancellation charges, redundancy costs, standing time costs, or any other additional payment arising solely as a result of a reduction in the services required by the Council. Payment shall only be made for services actually delivered in accordance with the Contract. · 1 x 24 months, subject to performance and requirements review.
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 (4)
- Undertaking of Services — 25%
- Contract Management — 25%
- Price — 40%
- Social Value — 10%
Published award criteria (4)
- Social Value — TOMs Calculator
- Technical & professional ability
The bidding organisation confirms that their organisation is a part of the SIA Approved Contractor Scheme (ACS). The bidding organisation must be approved for the below licensable activities: • Security Guard *Please note the Council will require that your more…
organisation are locatable on the SIA ACS Approved List of Contractors and will not permit subcontracting for this purpose.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Durham County Council buys Security services (CPV 7971) — and who usually turns up
Durham County Council’s own published record, next to the North East England market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Security services (CPV 7971) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Durham County Council
contract notices in 36 months: 9 in CPV 7971 (1 without competition · 1 route not published) · 27 in division 79 (4 without competition · 3 route not published) · 159 in all categories (24 without competition · 41 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7971), last 36 months: 5 lots. All 5 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices, which count bids assessed.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7971), last 36 months: 5 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7971), last 36 months: 5 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7971), last 36 months: 3 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 406 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7971), last 36 months: 8 notices.
North East England · Security services (CPV 7971)
contract notices delivered in North East England in 36 months: 47 in CPV 7971 (32 competed, 8 route not published) · 590 in division 79 (369 competed, 107 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7971), last 36 months: 17 lots. 11 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 7) and 6 from older notices (bids received, middle 8).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7971), last 36 months: 17 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7971), last 36 months: 9 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7971), last 36 months: 11 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7971), last 36 months: 13 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7971), last 36 months: 23 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on this buyer’s own usual movement over 5 lots (CPV 7971), applied to the £900,000 estimate on this notice.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
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
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 29 Sept 2026, 10:48 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Sept 2026, 10:48 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 27 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
OPEN20261944- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f607Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Expression of interest (EOI)
- —
- Tender submission deadline
- 15 Oct 2026, 10:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 7 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice published20 days ago9 Sept 2026, 17:21 BST
- Latest notice publishedjust passed29 Sept 2026, 10:48 BST
- Clarification questions byin 8 days7 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 16 days15 Oct 2026, 10:00 BST
- Award decision expected byin 29 days27 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 125 days1 Feb 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 9 Sept 2026- Tender notice published29 Sept 2026, 10:48 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published9 Sept 2026, 17:21 BSTUK4
Published amendments (1)
Update to ACS Requirements (Question 4.1.2) and extension to tender submission deadline.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender