plannedFind a Tender · planning Update

Temporary / Emergency Accommodation

BuyerDurham County Council

Statusplanned

DeadlineNot published

Value£7,500,000

Published30 Mar 2026

What is being bought

Durham County Council is seeking to establish a list of accommodation providers who can provide temporary and emergency accommodation within the boundaries of County Durham and its neighboring authorities. * This list will allow the Council to make individual placement requests based on need, suitability, and availability. Acceptance onto the list provides for no form of exclusivity or volume guarantee by the Council for Services from the Provider and the Council is at all times entitled to enter into other contracts and agreements with other Providers for the provision of any Services. This will be an Open list where providers can join throughout the contract lifetime.

Delivery location

UKC, GB

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanned

Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2028

SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

Item	Category	Quantity
1	Accommodation services	Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 98. The category anchor is Accommodation services (98341000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison set	Procedures	Reported bids per procedure	Named award suppliers	Price evidence
Market: CPV division 98	1,255	3 median · 115.6 average (251 of 1,255 with a bid count)	3.5 average (280 of 1,255 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Same buyer	2	Not published	Not published	Not published
Delivery region: UKC	71	2.5 median · 5.2 average (14 of 71 with a bid count)	1.2 average (16 of 71 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)	99	16 median · 16 average (2 of 99 with a bid count)	3.5 average (2 of 99 with named award suppliers)	Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published

Dynamic purchasing systemNot published

Competitive procurementNot published

Recurring requirementNot published

Procurement method rationaleNot published

Rationale classificationsNot published

Special regimeNot published

Covered byNot published

Submission policyNot published

Selection criteriaNot published

Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published

No-engagement rationaleNot published

Planning documents1

Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Pipeline notice on Find a Tender planning · plannedProcurementNotice

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCID	ocds-h6vhtk-0675ac
Latest release ID	028913-2026
Latest release timestamp	Mon Mar 30 2026 09:28:29 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Source	find-a-tender
Official notice URL	Not published
Tender status	planned
Procurement method	open
Procurement method details	Open procedure
Main procurement category	services
Above threshold	Yes
Legal basis	2023/54
Tender period: start	Not published
Tender period: end	Not published
Expression of interest deadline	Not published
Enquiry deadline	Not published
Award period: start	Not published
Award period: end	Not published
Submission method details	Not published
Submission languages	Not published
Electronic catalogue policy	Not published
Total tender value	£7,500,000
Tender lots in source	1
Tender items in source	1
Tender documents in source	0
Awards in latest release	0
Contracts in latest release	0
Parties in latest release	1

Notice history

Date	Event	Reference
30 Mar 2026	planningUpdate	028913-2026
26 Mar 2026	planning	028148-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)

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26 Mar 2026 · 028148-2026 · planning

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