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Durham Book Festival 25/26- Programming & Delivery
Authority: Durham County Council
CPV: Exhibition, fair and congress organisation services (79950000)
Published contract value£130,000Exc. VAT
Contract ends 31 Dec 2026
Awarded to New Writing North
Contract starts 1 Jan 2025
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDurham Book Festival (DBF) is a Durham County Council event produced by New Writing North with support from Durham University and Arts Council England (ACE). Alongside Brass and Lumiere, DBF forms a key part of DCC's status as an NPO with ACE. To maintain continuity and consistency we are seeking to extend the existing 2 year contract with New Writing North by 2 years to cover the festivals in 2025 and 2026, which will take us to the end of the existing NPO period with ACE. We feel that New Writing North stands alone as the best delivery vehicle for the festival and have delivered to consistently high standards.
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Negotiated without a call for competition
- Buyer reference
- DCC001-DN743951-31969120
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- Yes
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Limited
- Additional classifications 1: Reference
- 79952000
- Additional classifications 1: Scheme
- CPV
- Additional classifications 1: Description
- Event services
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- England, United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision1 Sept 2024
- Contract starts1 Jan 2025
- Notice published24 Jun 2025
- Contract ends31 Dec 2026
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- Durham County CouncilContracting authority
Suppliers named on the notice
- New Writing NorthSupplier
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- SME
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-ec7378c8-264a-4eca-85c6-4734d5ef9f3a-2025-06-24T08:31:22+01:00
- Published
- 24 Jun 2025
- Latest update
- 24 Jun 2025
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-ec7378c8-264a-4eca-85c6-4734d5ef9f3a
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-ec7378c8-264a-4eca-85c6-4734d5ef9f3a-1