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Published 12 Feb 2026, 11:51 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

The Provision of Fleet Stores

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Durham County Council (Local council)

Services
Sectors: Repair & Maintenance (50) Delivery: North East (UKC14)
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrs 7 moends 31 Mar 2031 · starts 1 Sept 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Durham County Council are carrying out Preliminary Market Engagement with the market to assess the feasibility of outsourcing their Fleet Stores, which are split across four depot locations

CPV: Fleet management, repair and maintenance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrs 7 mo
Contract period: 1 Sept 2026 – 31 Mar 2031 (4 yrs 7 mo)
Delivery: North East
50111000 Fleet management, repair and maintenance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Durham County Council buys Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011), 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: Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerDurham County Council · all categories
The marketRepair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment (CPV 5011)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 132 of 235 known-size awards · market: CPV 5011 · North East England, n=10
56%30%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 230 of 379 known-location awards · market: CPV 5011 · North East England, n=19
61%16%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North East England.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 21 decided notices · market: CPV 5011 · North East England, n=7
29 days84 days

Half of these awards were announced within 29 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 175 of 279 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 5011 · North East England, n=20
63%30%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer50 lots with bid counts · all categories
18% had one bid
The market8 lots with bid counts · CPV 5011 · North East England
13% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid18% / 13%
Buyer: 9 of 50 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
2–320% / 38%
Buyer: 10 of 50 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
4–634% / 38%
Buyer: 17 of 50 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
7+28% / 13%
Buyer: 14 of 50 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 8 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer30 lots with estimate and award · all categories
27% below estimate
The market48 lots with estimate and award · CPV 5011 · UK-wide
25% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate27% / 25%
Buyer: 8 of 30 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 12 of 48 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%57% / 58%
Buyer: 17 of 30 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 28 of 48 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate17% / 17%
Buyer: 5 of 30 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 48 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 501155 monthsEstimate not published
Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

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 92 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet10% single-bid risk
Past bids on 92 similar lots
1 bid10%
9 of 92 similar past lots received 1 bid (10%).
2–338%
35 of 92 similar past lots received 2–3 (38%).
4–627%
25 of 92 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+25%
23 of 92 similar past lots received 7+ (25%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

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
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
12 Feb 2026, 11:51 GMT
Last source update
13 Feb 2026, 14:30 GMT
Authority reference
OPEN2026296
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-013481
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Fleet management, repair and maintenance services
Delivery area
North East (UKC14)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-064ed3 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

12 Feb 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published250 days ago
    12 Feb 2026, 11:51 GMT
  2. Latest notice published249 days ago
    13 Feb 2026, 14:30 GMT
  3. Market engagement234 days ago
    27 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT

    This opportunity can be accessed via the Open Portal (Project Ref: OPEN2026296). All responses should be provided by completing the questionnaire and uploading your response via the Open Portal system before Friday 27th February 2026 @12:00pm. If you are unable to respond by the date and time stipulated, you should get in touch via the Open correspondence and additional arrangements may be considered.

    In-person discussions will be held at Corten House on Thursday 12th March. You will be allocated a 45-minute slot, once you confirm your availability for the above date. All correspondence regarding the in-person discussions should be made via the OPEN Portal. Please limit the number of representatives from your organisation to two persons. These in-person discussions are a mandatory component of the Preliminary Market Engagement.

  4. Contract starts49 days ago
    1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 12 Feb 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    12 Feb 2026, 11:51 GMT
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    13 Feb 2026, 14:30 GMT
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

The OPEN Portal Reference has now been corrected.

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

Durham County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PMPB-8772-VYWM Corten House, Dunholme Close, Durham, North East, DH1 5WBContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure