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Culture, Sport & Tourism Catering Contract

Catering services
North East (UKC14)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
Generated from official OCDS record
Tenderline Synopsis: Durham County Council: "Culture, Sport & Tourism Catering Contract". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityDurham County CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Durham County Council
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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
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Competition Density
8.7Bids / Report
9.1% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 212 active published awards; 208 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityDurham County Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published18 Feb 2025, 14:17 GMT
Last source update18 Feb 2025, 14:17 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationCatering services
Delivery area
North East (UKC14)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04e34d
What is being bought
Interim 2-year catering contract with Baxter Storey to ensure continuity and to maintain services within Culture, Sport & Tourism operated venues, which gives the Council more time to develop its wider corporate approach and deliver its Strategic Catering Review. Please note this contract will be re-procured competitively (by Open Competitive Flexible Tender) in 2026.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    18 Feb 2025, 14:17 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    18 Feb 2025, 14:17 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    18 Feb 2025, 14:17 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Interim 2-year catering contract with Baxter Storey to ensure continuity and to maintain services within Culture, Sport & Tourism operated venues, which gives the Council more time to develop its wider corporate approach and deliver its Strategic Catering Review. Please note this contract will be re-procured competitively (by Open Competitive Flexible Tender) in 2026.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    18 Feb 2025, 14:17 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 18 Feb 2025, 00:00 GMT · Not published
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
BAXTERSTOREY LIMITED
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
Not published · signed 18 Feb 2025, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
highestValidBidValue: 2500000
lowestValidBidValue: 2000000
bids: 1 (lot 1)
highestValidBidValue: 2500000 (lot 1)
lowestValidBidValue: 2000000 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Durham County Council

Contracting authority GB-FTS-34318
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  • Durham County Council
    buyer

    County Hall, DURHAM, UKC14, DH15UQ
    zoe.embleton@durham.gov.uk

  • Baxter Storey Limited
    supplier

    GB-COH: 01962583
    300 Thames Valley Park Drive, Reading, UK, RG6 1PT

  • The County Council of Durham
    reviewBody

    Durham
Documents (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleFollowing a delay in the review of the corporate catering position and the need in Culture and Sport to have a suitable catering offer to the Public, it has been agreed at REGMT to proceed with a two year contract with Baxter Storey to allow Culture and Sport colleagues to appropriately address the catering position within the Service and to prepare and execute an appropriate full procurement process for a long term arrangement. This interim-solution affords the Council time to establish the appropriate strategy whilst ensuring an offer to the Customer which is complaint with all necessary food legislation protocols but also enhances the facilities on offer to the Public. The allowing of this process is also on the basis of the commitment of the service to deliver a market procurement to implement a new contractual arrangement in 2027, which will be procured by Open Competitive Flexible process in 2026.