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Soft Market Testing - Provision of Support for Complex Needs Rough Sleepers via Supported Accommodation

Health and social work services
North East (UKC14)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Durham County Council: "Soft Market Testing - Provision of Support for Complex Needs Rough Sleepers via Supported Accommodation". 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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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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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
Published6 Mar 2025, 14:01 GMT
Last source update6 Mar 2025, 14:01 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationHealth and social work services
Delivery area
North East (UKC14)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04ea1c
What is being bought
Durham County Council (DCC) is looking to explore the market to understand what provision is available to provide accommodation and support for rough sleepers who present with complex needs. To support this, we would like to gain information from the market regarding a number of issues related to the potential procurement exercise. You are therefore invited to consider the inquiries detailed in the attached briefing document, and complete the attached questionnaire. This notice is not an invitation for formal expressions of interest. Durham County Council is issuing this request for information only, in order to assess the reaction of support and housing providers and the broader market and thus make any potential procurement process more focused and efficient.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to planning
    6 Mar 2025, 14:01 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    6 Mar 2025, 14:01 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    6 Mar 2025, 14:01 GMT
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
    6 Mar 2025, 14:01 GMT
  2. Procedure published
    6 Mar 2025, 14:01 GMT
  3. engagement
    31 Mar 2025, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    This market testing is taking place through responses to a soft market testing questionnaire. Soft market testing document can be accessed at www.open-uk.org. The reference is OPEN2025328 which can be found by searching for "001840 Soft market testing - Provision of Support for Complex Needs Rough Sleepers via Supported Accommodation"
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)
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No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published