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Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for the re-procurement of an Appropriate Adult Service

Health and social work services
North East (UKC14)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Durham County Council: "Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for the re-procurement of an Appropriate Adult Service". Published status: planning. 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
planning
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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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Durham County Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
13.4Bids / Report
14.8% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationModerate Concentration
HYMANS ROBERTSON LLPTop vendor: 33.7% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 417 active published awards; 27 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. Price reduction 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
HYMANS ROBERTSON LLP1 win£1,200,000
STEADFAST SECURITY SOLUTIONS LIMITED1 win£500,000
JOURNEO PLC1 win£407,821
BS PROJECT SERVICES LIMITED1 win£200,000
SANCTUARY PERSONNEL LIMITED1 win£200,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityDurham County Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published12 May 2026, 10:34 BST
Last source update12 May 2026, 10:34 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationHealth and social work services
Delivery area
North East (UKC14)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06966e
What is being bought
The 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. This preliminary market engagement questionnaire is to seek potential providers views for key areas of service provision: An Appropriate Adult (AA) service is a safeguarding service used in the criminal justice system to protect the rights and welfare of vulnerable people when they are involved with the police. It exists because some people may not fully understand police procedures or be able to communicate effectively without support. The Service is delivered from a central custody suite in Spennymoor, County Durham, however on occasions Appropriate Adults may be required to attend alternative locations when a voluntary attendance interview is undertaken. The AA service currently assists custody for vulnerable adults and children on a call out basis as and when required. For adults this service is 24/7 and for children this is out of hours including bank holidays.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to planning
    12 May 2026, 10:34 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    12 May 2026, 10:34 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    12 May 2026, 10:34 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    12 May 2026, 10:34 BST
  2. Procedure published
    12 May 2026, 10:34 BST
  3. engagement
    26 May 2026, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    A preliminary market engagement questionnaire has been published at www.open.org-uk and documents can be accessed free of charge using reference OPEN20261027
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Durham County Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PMPB-8772-VYWM
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Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published