Official UK procurement notice
002696 - Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for a Commercial Property Finder
Authority: Durham County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDurham County Council (DCC) are looking to explore the market options for a commercial property database.
The system will be an integral part of our property database search facility offer that we provide to the business community. The contractor will be responsible for accurate and timely updates to the data and submitting monitoring reports of visitor engagement, registration and trend analysis.
Overview of our Requirements:
- To provide a property search capability for Business Durham (BD)
- Provide a reliable search capability of land and property for BD staff and its clients and enquirers via a database
- Be searchable by clients via the Business Durham website
- Be accurate and up to date
- Have a reporting function which allows presentation of result searches to clients and analysis of trends for management analysis on a quarterly basis
- Include Business Durham properties
- Public facing search fields
- Interactive search map of County Durham
- Ability to download a pdf of results
- Login area for clients to access full details and review search results
- Staff login area to access reports
- Provide bi-annual detailed market trends reports.
- Flag and highlight newly added properties
- Highlight and promote Business Durham properties in the search results
CPV: Building consultancy services · Commercial property management services · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure 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
- Below threshold
- 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
- 7 Oct 2025, 17:27 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Oct 2025, 17:27 BST
- Authority reference
OPEN20251746- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-063043- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05a9f4Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 Oct 2025 → 15 Jan 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published386 days ago7 Oct 2025, 17:27 BST
- Market engagement369 days ago24 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
Market Engagement questionnaire can be accessed free of charge by registering on the Open Portal which be accessed via open-uk.org
Deadline for completed submissions via the Open Portal is Friday 24th October 2025 at 12 noon.
- Tender notice expected331 days ago1 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts287 days ago15 Jan 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published7 Oct 2025, 17:27 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