Durham County Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITYONS register: Local-authority-districtSocial housing register: Local authorityNHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY - LEGACYLocal authorityNorth East EnglandDurhamRan 2 procurements for other authorities

Official UK PPONPMPB-8772-VYWMWebsitedurham.gov.uk ↗

Open now10next deadline 28 Oct 2026
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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.

Notices, last 12 months213+18% vs prior 12 months (180)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot421.1% single-bid · 38 bid reports
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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 38 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share6%of 423 awarded procedures · 735 suppliers
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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.

423 awarded tenders, 735 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months15974 within 6 months · 26 estimated
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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.

Published award value, 24m£385mnet · on 274 of 336 published values · 62 repeated amounts set aside · top 5 = 76%
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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.

Open notices

10 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

What they buy
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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

How they buy
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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 · 393 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract85%(336 notices)
    336 of 393 notices are Contract (85%).
  • Framework14%(56 notices)
    56 of 393 notices are Framework (14%).
  • Dynamic purchasing system0%(1 notices)
    1 of 393 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (0%).
Procedure route
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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 award41%(162 notices)
    162 of 393 notices are Direct award (41%).
  • Open28%(112 notices)
    112 of 393 notices are Open (28%).
  • Route not published15%(60 notices)
    60 of 393 notices are Route not published (15%).
  • Limited / restricted12%(47 notices)
    47 of 393 notices are Limited / restricted (12%).
  • Selective3%(12 notices)
    12 of 393 notices are Selective (3%).
Typical bids per lot
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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 38 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4robust · n=3821.1% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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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 31 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

29 daysrobust · n=31
Notice amendments
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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 394 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

076 of 394 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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 23 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=23

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Unite Procurement Ltdframework/DPS on 10133.1%034—
Sirius Demolitionframework/DPS on 881.9%325—
Humankind Charityframework/DPS on 181.9%31229 Jun 2026
Karbon Homes Ltd71.7%47—
SJ SSC LIMITED T/A SportsCool Durham61.4%36—
GLC PROJECTS LTDframework/DPS on 661.4%218—
AKARI CARE LIMITEDframework/DPS on 151.2%46—
Steam Ahead CIC (trading as STEAM Ahead Education)51.2%25—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 423 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 735 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£385mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 274 of 336 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 76%; a further 18 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£56k middle valuerobust · n=274Middle half £35k–£154k; 62 awards with ambiguous equal values within a procedure excluded from both figures.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Residual Waste Management Contract Extension (VEAT Notification)SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd——£92,000,000 †
0-25 Family Health ServiceHarrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust——£78,771,870 †
0-25 Family Health ServiceHarrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust—1.3 yrs£74,721,154 †
≈ £60m/yr
County Durham Integrated Sexual Health ServiceCounty Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (CDDFT)——£27,765,973 †
NIDP-DCC Project Studies and SchemesNORTHUMBRIAN WATER GROUP LIMITED—11 yrs£20,000,000
≈ £1.8m/yr

Contracts ending
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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.

814 of 986 contracts carry an end date, 269 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 159 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 561 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Contract for Cash Collection & Cash In Transit ServicesFinancial and insurance servicesOpen29 Sept 2026£400,000
Community Infection Prevention and Control ServiceAwarded / complete23 Oct 2026—
Provision of Lock Down Services and Temporary Manned Guarding for County Durham Bus Stations3 lotsSecurity servicesAwarded / complete23 Oct 2026£180,000
Provision of Manned Security Services for Durham Bus StationSecurity servicesAwarded / complete23 Oct 2026£500,000
Partition and Ceiling Works Coulson Street Phase 3FrameworkAwarded / complete20 Oct 2026—
WINTER MAINTENANCE AT CHILDREN YOUNG PEOPLE SERVICE SITE LOT 9 FERRYHILLFramework10 lotsHighway maintenance workAwarded / complete19 Oct 2026£40,000
003730 - Traffic Signal Cable SupplyFrameworkAwarded / complete14 Oct 2026—
Teachers' Pensions End of Year Certificate (EOYC) audit 2025/26Awarded / complete14 Oct 2026—
Seaham Docks Car Park EarthworksAwarded / complete14 Oct 2026—
Corporate AdvertisingAwarded / complete12 Oct 2026—
Provision of CIPFA Corporate Subscription ServicesAwarded / complete12 Oct 2026—
003989 - DocumationAwarded / complete9 Oct 2026—
003635 - Provision of Manned Security Guard Services at Durham County Council DepotsSecurity servicesOpen9 Oct 2026£1,600,000
New Woodland Maintenance ContractAwarded / complete8 Oct 2026—
Supply of traffic signal componentsAwarded / complete8 Oct 2026—
Procurement of Leasing Facilities FrameworkFramework4 lotsFinancial leasing servicesAwarded / complete7 Oct 2026£1,760,000,000
003325 - Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for a Pensions Administration SystemIndustry specific software packagePlanning7 Oct 2026£1,600,000
LPG supply for Killhope Lead Mining MuseumAwarded / complete5 Oct 2026—
Health, Wellbeing and Night HubHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete2 Oct 2026£1,750,000
Murton MOD Area Victor West Peatland Restoration ProjectFrameworkConstruction workAwarded / complete30 Sept 2026—

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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. 814 of 986 published contracts have an end date; 269 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.