Official UK procurement notice
Learning Disability / Mental Health Supported Living (Service User Choice)
Authority: Durham County Council (Local council)
Direct awards will be issued to any commissioning approved Provider who a service user chooses to access for a Learning Disability / Mental Health Supported Living service. Each individual service user contract is not expected to exceed LTR threshold.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDirect awards will be issued to any commissioning approved Provider who a service user chooses to access for a Learning Disability / Mental Health Supported Living service.
Each individual service user contract is not expected to exceed LTR threshold.
This notice will cover multiple providers.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 20 Oct 2025, 14:33 BST
- Last source update
- 20 Oct 2025, 14:33 BST
- Authority reference
002817- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-066756- Latest notice
- Transparency notice (UK5)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05cfdeFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- only one supplier could deliver (user choice)
- Published justification
User choice contract
User Choice Contract - Taken from PA23:
- The public contract is a contract for the supply of user choice services and the conditions in paragraph 17 are met.
- In paragraph 15, "user choice services" means services-
(a)that are of a kind specified in regulations under section 9 (light touch contracts),
(b)that are supplied for the benefit of a particular individual, and
(c)in respect of which a contracting authority would, in awarding a contract for their supply, be required under an enactment to have regard to the views of the individual, or a person providing care to the individual (their "carer"), in relation to who should supply the
services.
- The conditions are that-
(a)the individual to whom the services are to be supplied or their carer has expressed a preference as to who should supply the services, or the nature of the services to be supplied is such that only one supplier is capable of providing them, and
(b)the contracting authority considers that it is not in the best interests of the individual to award the contract under section 19.
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 20 Oct 2025- Transparency notice published20 Oct 2025, 14:33 BSTUK5
- Contract signature expected20 Oct 2025, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| supplier not published20 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026 · up to 31 Mar 2030Extensions: Should the supported living service still meet service user need then the contract will be extended until such a time when it does not meet service user need. | £68,071,639 | — | Standstill |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender