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Published 20 Oct 2025, 14:37 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Specialist Residential / Nursing Home Placements

Official notice

Authority: Durham County Council (Local council)

Direct awardLight touch regime
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: North East (UKC14)
Awarded value£15,837,670published award · exc. VAT
Award in standstill Not publishedno call for competition

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Direct awards will be issued to any commissioning approved Provider who a service user chooses to be placed with in a Specialist Residential / Nursing Home Placement.

This notice covers multiple contract awards for individual service users and each award is expected to be below LTR threshold.

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Awarded
Delivery: North East
85000000 Health and social work services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Direct award
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
20 Oct 2025, 14:37 BST
Last source update
20 Oct 2025, 14:37 BST
Authority reference
002816
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-066761
Latest notice
Transparency notice (UK5)
Delivery area
North East (UKC14)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05cfe2 Find a Tender
Why no open competition
only one supplier could deliver (user choice)
Published justification

User choice contract

User Choice Contract - Taken from PA23:

  1. The public contract is a contract for the supply of user choice services and the conditions in paragraph 17 are met.
  2. In paragraph 15, "user choice services" means services-

(a)that are of a kind specified in regulations under section 9 (light touch contracts),

(b)that are supplied for the benefit of a particular individual, and

(c)in respect of which a contracting authority would, in awarding a contract for their supply, be required under an enactment to have regard to the views of the individual, or a person providing care to the individual (their "carer"), in relation to who should supply the services.

  1. The conditions are that-

(a)the individual to whom the services are to be supplied or their carer has expressed a preference as to who should supply the services, or the nature of the services to be supplied is such that only one supplier is capable of providing them, and

(b)the contracting authority considers that it is not in the best interests of the individual to award the contract under section 19

Notice history

2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 20 Oct 2025
  1. Transparency notice published
    20 Oct 2025, 14:37 BST
    UK5
  2. Contract signature expected
    20 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
    scheduled

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1some still in standstill
Awarded value £15,837,6701 award exc. VAT
Awarded toValueDateStatus
supplier not published20 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026 · up to 31 Mar 2030Extensions: If placement still meets service user need then the placement will be extended until such a time where it does not meet service user need.£15,837,670—Standstill

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Durham County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PMPB-8772-VYWM Corten House, Dunholme Close, Durham, North East, DH1 5WBContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender