Official UK procurement notice
DA from NEPO212 for Billingham Sport Hub, Mechanical & Electrical Engineer
Authority: Stockton on Tees Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionIn January 2024 Alliance Leisure Services Limited, who are the Development Partner on the UK Leisure Framework, were appointed after being recommended as an appropriate and compliant delivery route by the Football Foundation. The UK Leisure Framework allows for direct appointment of the professional team and main contractor and as such, Universal Group were appointed to design and construct Billingham Sports Hub.
The outcome of this means an alternative procurement route is sought and it is now essential that the shortcomings identified during the initial commission are not repeated through this new prcurement exercise. The proposed procurement approach has been specifically chosen to strengthen quality assurance, improve design coordination, and provide greater oversight throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring a more robust and deliverable outcome.
It is necessary to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced multidisciplinary consultant team to develop, coordinate and finalise the technical design, ensuring a fully integrated and deliverable scheme across the site. Given the complexity of both the project and the site, it is essential that the appointed consultants demonstrate strong design coordination and project integration capabilities, with a proven track record of successfully delivering complex schemes with the Council. These skills and experience were not sufficiently evident within the previous procurement arrangement and are therefore a critical requirement for the re-procurement process to ensure a coordinated, robust and deliverable design solution.
CPV: Mechanical and electrical engineering services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 20 Oct 2026, 08:05 BST
- Last source update
- 20 Oct 2026, 08:05 BST
- Authority reference
RIG.36.2627- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-098735- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078b52Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
A direct award will provide access to consultants with proven experience and the specialist skills required to deliver the project to the necessary quality standards. This approach reduces delivery risk, supports programme certainty, and avoids the potential delays associated with both a competitive procurement exercise and the subsequent management of quality-related issues.
Given the existing programme pressures and the need to maintain critical delivery timescales, further delays cannot be accommodated.
Communications with stakeholders over recent months indicated a design commencement date of June 2026. However, due to funding delays, the project has not been able to proceed in line with that programme. The revised dates set out below now represent the programme currently being worked to and will form the basis for future project planning and delivery.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Align Property PartnersSME | £37,550 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 098735-2026-1 · Align Property PartnersSME
- Signed
- 3 Sept 2026
- Value
- £37,550
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The High Court of JusticeReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Align Property PartnersAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.