Darlington Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY·ONS register: Local-authority-district·Social housing register: Local authority·Local authority·North East England·Darlington
Official UK PPONPCRZ-3744-WXXZ
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
225 awarded tenders, 254 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
85 Health and social work services22 procedures · 11%45 Construction work7 procedures · 4%34 Transport equipment and products3 procedures · 2%44 Construction structures and materials3 procedures · 2%48 Software package and information systems2 procedures · 1%66 Financial and insurance services2 procedures · 1%71 Architectural, construction, engineering2 procedures · 1%18 Clothing, footwear, bags1 procedures · 1%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 199 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract98%(195 notices)
195 of 199 notices are Contract (98%).Framework2%(4 notices)
4 of 199 notices are Framework (2%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Direct award66%(132 notices)
132 of 199 notices are Direct award (66%).Limited / restricted17%(33 notices)
33 of 199 notices are Limited / restricted (17%).Route not published8%(16 notices)
16 of 199 notices are Route not published (8%).Open7%(14 notices)
14 of 199 notices are Open (7%).Selective2%(4 notices)
4 of 199 notices are Selective (2%).
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 4 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 199 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| North East Autism Society | 6 | 2.7% | 6 | 6 | — |
| ROC SOLID | 5 | 2.2% | 5 | 5 | — |
| Primary Healthcare Darlington | 4 | 1.8% | 4 | 4 | 17 Jan 2024 |
| County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust | 4 | 1.8% | 4 | 4 | 17 Jan 2024 |
| Sanctuary Home Care | 4 | 1.8% | 2 | 6 | — |
| St. Cuthbert's Care Limited | 4 | 1.8% | 2 | 5 | 13 Feb 2026 |
| Esh Homes Limited | 4 | 1.8% | 2 | 5 | — |
| Creative Support Ltd | 4 | 1.8% | 0 | 11 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 225 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 254 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Town Centre Development Partner | Cityheart Ltd | — | — | £140,000,000 † |
| PB2025-00214 Warm Homes - Social Housing Fund (Wave3) | RE:GEN YORKSHIRE AND EAST MIDLANDS LIMITED | — | — | £13,907,000 † |
| Planning, Survey, Design, Supply and Installation of Warm Homes Local Grant for Retrofit and Decarbonisation Works in the Tees Valley | E.ON UK GREEN FUNDING SOLUTIONS LIMITED | — | — | £13,521,000 † |
| M & E Works, Mini Golf and Refurbishment of 2 Studios and diving pool at the Dolphin Centre | Willmott Dixon Construction Limited | — | — | £6,641,266 † |
| Residential Placement for 408638 | RUBIX HOUSING LTD | 8 Apr 2026 | 7.8 yrs | £5,784,000 ≈ £746k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
156 of 302 contracts carry an end date, 17 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Tenant Satisfaction Measures Survey | BMG Research Limited | 26 Oct 2026 | £63,000 |
| Level 5 Principles of Commissioning for Wellbeing Course | Hasca Limited | 31 Oct 2026 | £13,900 |
| Darlington BC, Autumn Schemes 2026 | Tarmac Trading Limited | 2 Nov 2026 | £318,343 |
| PB2026-00476 - Supported Accommodation Placement for 375114 | Jigsaw Recovery Project CIC | 26 Nov 2026 | £72,835 |
| Dolphin Centre Cost Consultant | Driver Project Services | 18 Dec 2026 | £46,550 |
| ONE DARLINGTON MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTION | Smart Distribution Solutions Limited | 31 Dec 2026 | £103,433 |
| PB2023-00998 Window Cleaning Services | City Clean (Northern) LTd | 12 Jan 2027 estimated | Not published |
| Housing Services - Regulatory Compliance and Improvement Project | David Tolson Partnership Limited | 19 Jan 2027 | £6,650 |
| Placement for ID 5567668 | ROC SOLID | 1 Feb 2027 | £91,711 |
| Maintenance and 24 Hour Call off/Repairs Service of Doors, Gates and Lifeline Equipment | Secureshield Ltd | 28 Feb 2027 | £173,000 |
Soonest 10 of 48 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 249 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
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.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 156 of 302 published contracts have an end date; 17 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar.
- 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.