Official UK procurement notice
Family Weight Management Service
Authority: Durham County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe council are inviting suppliers to participate in preliminary engagement to gain insight from the market with the purpose of making any potential future exercise, well framed, feasible, focused and of likely interest to the market.
As part of our whole systems approach to healthy weight, Durham County Council has identified the need for a Tier 2 Family Weight Management Service (FWMS) to support children and families in achieving healthier lifestyles and improved wellbeing.
The service will address childhood overweight and obesity as core outcomes, while promoting sustainable, family-centred health behaviours. It is specifically aimed at children in Reception and Year 6 who are identified through the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). The data for 2023/24 shows that 1,330 children at Reception age and 2,105 children in Year 6 are living with overweight (including obesity) in our area.
Programme Overview
- Duration: 12 months, including a 10-week in-person programme (aligned with NICE guidance) and ongoing digital support.
- Delivery: Community venues across County Durham, accessible by public transport.
- Team: A multidisciplinary group of professionals with experience working with children and families, and knowledge and practical expertise in delivering targeted weight management programmes
- Equity Focus: Applying a proportionate universalism approach, the service will prioritise communities with higher levels of deprivation, guided by NCMP data.
Programme Components
- Group-based physical activities and psycho-educational workshops.
- Family-focused nutritional sessions for parents.
- Topics Covered:
- Healthy habits and balanced meals
- Eatwell guide, portion sizes, energy intake
- Regular meals/snacks, hydration, sugar awareness
- Food labels, influences on choices, language
- Mental wellbeing, sleep, physical literacy, Non-Exercise Activity Time (NEAT)
Strategic Alignment
This initiative supports the County Durham Healthy Weight Plan and promotes collaborative working across partners to reduce obesity and foster long-term healthy behaviours in families.
The benefits to your organisation in participating in this process include:
- the chance to assess whether the opportunity will be suitable and of interest to you
- ensuring that specifications are realistic and market-focused
- the chance to raise any risks, concerns or issues regarding the potential opportunity
There is no commercial advantage or disadvantage to your organisation being involved in this exercise.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Durham County Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Durham County Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in North East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North East England. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 65% against 54%, n=146.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 30 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid25% / 24%
2–320% / 35%
4–625% / 20%
7+30% / 21%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate42% / 35%
Within ±2%58% / 60%
Above estimate0% / 6%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 227 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid24%
2–335%
4–620%
7+21%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Harrogate and District NHS Foundation TrustEarlier contract | THE (0-25) FAMILY HEALTH SERVICEnotice published May 2025 | 0-25 Family Health Service | £79m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 27 Oct 2025, 15:59 GMT
- Last source update
- 27 Oct 2025, 15:59 GMT
- Authority reference
002814- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-068673- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d47dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Oct 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published357 days ago27 Oct 2025, 15:59 GMT
- Market engagement339 days ago14 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) Questionnaire can be accessed free of charge at www.open-uk.org ↗
- Contract starts202 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Oct 2025, 15:59 GMTUK2
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