Official UK procurement notice
002333 - Contract for Key Holding and Out of Hours Alarm Response
Authority: Durham County Council (Local council)
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: North East (UKC14)
Planned pipeline value£500,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Jul 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 30 Sept 2029 · starts 1 Oct 2025
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDurham County Council (DCC) owns and operates a large and varied property portfolio consisting of a typical local government mixed estate of office, commercial and public buildings. DCC currently deliver their own out of hours response and key holding through their Repairs and Maintenance team. DCC is now looking to outsource part of these services to a third-party security provider.
The Scope of Services includes key holding, out of hours first response for emergencies and incidents, attending alarm activations, making good/securing any damage where applicable and reporting.
CPV: Security services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 5 Jun 2025, 13:37 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Jun 2025, 13:37 BST
- Authority reference
OPEN2025934- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-030245- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05439aFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Jun 2025 → 1 Oct 2025 · 3 dates- Planning notice published5 Jun 2025, 13:37 BST
- Tender notice expected1 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts394 days ago1 Oct 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Jun 2025, 13:37 BSTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender