Forward council tenders and contracts (procurement pipeline)
Our procurement pipeline provides a forward look of potential commercial activity and information on procurement exercises.
This includes market engagements, procurements in progress, dynamic purchasing system (DPS) open procurements, planned procurements and future pipeline opportunities.
Please be aware that there is no guarantee that any published opportunity will lead to a tender publication/contract award as we may decide not to proceed.
The information below reflects our anticipated procurement pipeline as at the publication date and may be subject to change.
We make no commitment that the requirements identified will be procured and do not guarantee any levels of spend for goods/works/services from these procurements.
The information and material contained in this publication is provided for general information purposes only and we cannot accept responsibility for any errors, omissions or inaccuracies.
All notices and our current procurements are posted on the NEPO portal.
Our Contracts Register provides further information on our awarded contracts and frameworks.
Open procurements
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| Catering | Land occupation concessions | 31 March 2033 |
Facilities and management services / portable building hire | Contract for hire of site accommodation and skips | 31 March 2025 |
Public transport / passenger transport | Contract for public transport services | 30 September 2030 |
Public transport / taxi Services / home to school | Contract for transport to and from mainstream and special education needs schools, swimming venues and adult social care establishments | 31 March 2029 |
Vehicle management / hire | Supply of operated hired plant and equipment | 31 August 2024 |
Planned procurement - current contracts and frameworks
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| Sport and fitness | Freelance contract for wellbeing sport and leisure | 31 January 2034 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
Bathrooms | Framework agreement for the design, supply and installation of level access showers and associated works | 31 March 2025 |
| Electrical | Framework for the supply and delivery of electrical components | 30 March 2025 |
| Electrical | Framework for supply and install of fibre optic infrastructure, associated works, maintenance and testing | 31 August 2025 |
Fencing | Supply of fabricated steel and concrete fencing and gate products | 30 September 2024 |
Floor coverings | Framework agreement for flooring contractors | 01 July 2024 |
| General materials | Framework for the supply and installation of partitions, suspended ceilings and walls | 21 January 2025 |
| General materials | Framework for bricklaying contractors | 31 January 2025 |
| General materials | Framework agreement for lot 1 supply and delivery of building and civil materials, lot 3 supply and delivery of tools and consumables lot 4 supply and delivery of gas bottles | 30 June 2024 |
| General materials | Scaffolding framework, lot 1 highway services | 28 February 2025 |
| General materials | Scaffolding framework, lot 2 general building works | 28 February 2025 |
| Glazing | Framework for empty retail treatments | 18 September 2024 |
Glazing | Framework for the design, measure, supply and installation of: lot 1 aluminium windows, doors and curtain wailing lot 2 Polyvinyl Chloride (pvc) doors and curtain wailing and lot 3 associated ancillaries | 30 September 2024 |
Heating and air conditioning | Framework for maintenance, service and repair of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning systems (HVAC) | 31 March 2025 |
| Heating and air conditioning | Service agreement for the maintenance, service, and repair of automatic heating controls - Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) | 31 March 2025 |
| Heating and air conditioning | Supply and commissioning of air source heat pumps | 11 July 2025 |
Lighting | Framework agreement for the supply and delivery of LED (light emitting diode) luminaires | 30 April 2025 |
Paint and finishing | Framework agreement for painting contractors | 1 August 2024 |
| Plumbing | Framework for the supply and delivery of heating and plumbing components | 30 July 2024 |
Roofing | Contract for the supply of roofing materials | 12 May 2026 |
Roofing | Framework of roofing contractors for various trades, lot 1 slate and tile roof systems, lot 2 metal deck roofing services, lot 3 cold applied liquid roofing systems | 30 September 2025 |
Timber | Framework for the fabrication and installation of timber frames and associated works | 2 January 2026 |
| Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
Banquet and catering | Concession contract for catering services at Bowlees visitor centre | 28 February 2025 |
| Catering | Land occupation concessions | Please see the Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS) opportunities section |
Equipment and utensils | Framework for commercial kitchen equipment | 30 September 2025 |
| Equipment and utensils | Framework for the maintenance, service and repair of kitchen refrigeration equipment (education premises only) | 30 April 2025 |
| Equipment and utensils | Supply of catering light equipment | 30 November 2024 |
| Food and beverages | Food supplier solution for Killhope Lead Mining Museum café | 31 March 2025 |
School meals service | Provision of catering services in primary schools | 31 July 2025 |
| Vending machines and dispensers | Point of use watercoolers for council buildings | 22 December 2024 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
Body transport service | Regional post-mortem pathology services | 31 March 2026 |
| Cemetery and crematorium | Provider panel for public health funeral services. Lot 1 burial, lot 2 cremation, lot 3 burial with an estate, lot 4 cremation with an estate | 28 February 2025 |
| Cemetery and crematorium | Supply and update book of remembrance for Durham and Mountsett crematoriums | 28 February 2028 |
Equipment | Framework agreement for the supply of memorial wall plaques, vase blocks and niche units, and the supply and engraving of various plaques | 31 August 2024 |
Maintenance | Framework agreement for cemetery and crematorium minor works | 21 November 2025 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
Cleaning service | Servicing and maintenance of clos-o-mat toilets | 31 March 2027 |
| Cleaning service | Provision of daily cleaning to Hardwick Park Visitor Centre | 14 April 2025 |
| Cleaning service | Window cleaning service | 31 March 2025 |
Category | Contract description / Title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| Protective | Lifeguard equipment, training and licence | 31 December 2024 |
| Uniforms | Countryside service uniforms | 31 March 2027 |
| Uniforms | Supply and laundering of workshop uniforms | 30 December 2026 |
| Uniforms | Supply of uniforms for the staff in County of Durham Registration of Births, Death, Marriages and Civil Partnerships | 31 March 2027 |
Uniforms | Uniform framework: for corporate wear, leisurewear, corporate workwear and stores workwear | 30 June 2024 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| Buildings / construction | Council house delivery programme | 31 March 2030 |
Buildings / construction | Framework for specialist construction building works and services | 31 October 2024 |
| Buildings / repair and maintenance | Framework for electrical contractors | 19 December 2024 |
| Buildings / repair and maintenance | Framework for maintenance, service and repair of commercial kitchen equipment | 31 January 2026 |
Buildings / repair and maintenance | Mechanical contractors for minor works | 17 December 2024 |
Buildings / repair and maintenance | Framework agreement for the maintenance, service and repair of powered, pedestrian, industrial, automatic, garage doors and roller shutters | 31 December 2026 |
| Directional drilling | Directional drilling | 31 August 2024 |
| Open spaces | Framework agreement for maintenance, repairs and associated works for playing pitches within the County of Durham | 31 March 2025 |
| Open spaces | Framework for underwater and confined spaces bridge inspection and repair works | 30 May 2024 |
Open spaces | Framework delivery of countryside service and works | 19 February 2025 |
Roads | Civil engineering framework under £50,000 | 31 December 2024 |
| Roads | Contract for hire of owner operator power gritter and the hire of owner operated agricultural tractors for winter service provision | 30 September 2026 |
| Roads | Framework agreement for civil engineering work from 50k to 500k | 31 January 2025 |
| Roads | Framework for earthworks | 17 July 2024 |
| Roads | Framework for the provision of owner operated plant for snow ploughing and general snow clearance works | 31 October 2026 |
| Roads | Framework for the winter maintenance provision of owner operator power gritters from Chilton depot (route 12) and Morrison busty depot (route 25) | 15 October 2025 |
Roads / drainage | Framework agreement for drainage and asset management investigation, maintenance and refurbishment works | 10 July 2025 |
| Roads / surveys | Provision of civil and geotechnical engineering investigation and material testing | 31 July 2024 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| Adult and further education services | Contract for multiply provision for intervention | 31 March 2024 |
| Adult and further education services | Lot 1 - County Durham brokerage service (hospital to residential/nursing care) Lot 2 - County Durham trusted assessor service | 31 March 2025 |
School musical instruments | Framework contract for the supply and delivery of musical instruments | 31 October 2024 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| Animal services / kennel services | Stray dog services | 30 April 2025 |
Demolition and asbestos removal | Asbestos removal and abatement framework | 28 February 2025 |
| Demolition and asbestos removal | Framework demolition (including asbestos removal) | 1 September 2024 |
| Street cleansing | Framework for pavement cleaning maintenance | 10 July 2024 |
Technical equipment / measuring | Noise monitoring equipment for the investigation of statutory noise nuisance | 30 June 2026 |
Testing and inspection | Petroleum inspection programme | 31 March 2026 |
Waste management | Maintenance and calibration of weighbridges at waste facilities | 31 August 2024 |
| Waste management | Maintenance of weighbridge at Meadowfield depot | 31 August 2025 |
| Waste management | The provision of dry recyclable processing services | 31 March 2025 |
| Waste management / recycling | Operation, management and maintenance of household waste recycling centres | 31 March 2032 |
Waste management / toxic and hazardous waste | Contract for transport and disposal of landfill leachate | 18 March 2029 |
Waste management / toxic and hazardous waste | Contract for collection treatment and disposal of clinical/offensive waste | 31 March 2028 |
Waste management / waste collection | Contract for confidential shredding of paper and destruction of electronic media | 30 April 2025 |
Waste management / waste disposal | Contract for the provision of a municipal waste haulage service | 31 March 2033 |
Waste management / waste disposal | Contract for the treatment of residual waste | 31 May 2025 |
Water assessment and treatment | Analysis services for landfill monitoring (waters) | 31 January 2028 |
Water assessment and treatment | Framework agreement for the control of legionella bacteria in water systems at council sites | 30 November 2025 |
Water assessment and treatment | Provision of legionella risk assessments | 31 July 2025 |
Water assessment and treatment | Framework for control of legionella bacteria in educational establishments | 30 November 2025 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising | Newspaper and digital advertising | 31 March 2025 |
| Document archiving and storage | Storage, maintenance and retrieval of paper records to include a scan demand service | 31 March 2026 |
| Energy efficiency | Energy efficiency contractor framework | 31 January 2025 |
| Energy efficiency | Framework agreement for the supply, delivery and commission natural gas fired condensing boiler(s) - wall mounted and floor standing | 30 June 2026 |
| Energy efficiency | Maintenance of solar photovoltaics (PV) on Durham County Council land and buildings | 1 December 2024 |
Energy efficiency | Framework for the provision, installation and monitoring of equipment to record water use in our buildings including schools/academies throughout the county | 31 December 2024 |
| Facilities and management services / portable building hire | Contract for hire of site accommodation and skips | Please see the Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS) opportunities section above |
Lifts | Framework for the provision of a service to survey, supply, install, remove, recondition and store of lifts in the community | 30 October 2024 |
| Lifts | Framework agreement for stairlift: Lot 1 repair, maintenance and servicing; Lot 2 supply and installation | 28 February 2025 |
Lifts / repair and maintenance | Framework for repairs and testing of passenger lifts | 31 May 2025 |
| Printing | Contract for the printing of the Durham County News (DCN) and other publications | 31 March 2026 |
| Printing | Production supply and delivery of pre-printed envelopes | 7 July 2027 |
Printing | Print and mailing framework | 31 July 2024 |
Printing | Framework for vehicle graphics and signage | 31 July 2025 |
Printing | Large format and display framework | 31 July 2024 |
Removals | Lot 1 provision of removal service, lot 2 provision of a removal and storage service for housing solutions lot 3 provision of a removal disposal and recycling service for our redundant office and associated office furniture | 31 December 2024 |
| Reprographics | Framework for the supply, installation and maintenance of multi-function devices to schools, academies and other educational settings | 30 September 2025 |
| Security | Business Durham sites - alarm response, keyholding and security patrols | 31 July 2024 |
| Security | Framework for the provision of ad hoc call-out security (parking and infrastructure team sites) | 30 April 2025 |
| Security | Framework for the provision of keyholding, alarm response and mobile patrol services | 31 March 2028 |
| Security | Out of hours alarm response | 31 July 2024 |
| Security / access control | Door entry systems for domestic properties | 30 September 2024 |
| Security / closed-circuit television | Care Connect CCTV Airwaves (Radio) access | 31 December 2026 |
Security / closed-circuit television | Lot 1 contract for supply, delivery, installation, commissioning, maintenance, servicing and monitoring of security alarms. Lot 2 contract for supply, delivery, installation, commissioning, maintenance, servicing and closed-circuit television (CCTV) - non-public surveillance | 31 March 2025 |
| Security / equipment | Framework for the provision of locksmith services | 28 February 2026 |
| Security / manned guarding | Contract for the provision of manned security guard services at Aycliffe young people's centre | 31 October 2024 |
| Security / manned guarding | Contract for the provision of manned security guard services at council depots (Hackworth road depot, Meadowfield depot, Chilton depot, Morrison Busty depot) | 31 October 2024 |
| Security / manned guarding | Contract for the provision of manned security guard services at NETpark | 31 October 2024 |
| Security / manned guarding | Framework for the provision of manned security guard services in council bus stations | 31 October 2026 |
| Security / manned guarding | Hire of temporary remote monitored closed circuit television (CCTV) systems/services | 30 November 2025 |
Category | Contract Description / Title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
Cash collection | Supply of cash collection and cash in transit services | 31 August 2026 |
| Credit services | Provision of credit reference / data search facility | 31 August 2026 |
| Financial services | Leasing facilities framework | 31 May 2026 |
Insurance | Engineering inspections | 28 February 2025 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| Maintenance | Framework agreement for the control of legionella bacteria in water systems | 30 November 2025 |
Maintenance | Servicing, repair and supply of fire extinguishers and associated equipment. | 31 August 2026 |
| Products | Supply of fire alarm panels, repairs and commissioning of panel and associated equipment | 31 July 2024 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
Occupational therapy services | Employee assistance programme (telephone) | 31 March 2025 |
| Public health | Adult wellbeing services | 31 March 2029 |
| Public health | Independent NHS complaints advocacy | 31 March 2026 |
| Public health | LGBT+ health and wellbeing service | 30 September 2026 |
Public health | Mobile sexual health service | 31 March 2025 |
| Services | Workplace health programme | 28 February 2026 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
Bituminous materials and surface dressings | Framework for supply of highways material, lot 1 bagged aggregate, lot 2 bitumen road emulsion and stabilisers, lot 3 rapid setting bedding | 12 March 2025 |
| Highway equipment and materials | Framework contract for recycling and disposal of construction waste and associated material | 31 January 2025 |
| Highway equipment and materials | Surveying equipment, servicing and maintenance | 31 January 2026 |
Rock salt | Framework agreement for winter maintenance at business parks within County Durham | 30 September 2025 |
Signage | Supply of road traffic sign plates | 30 September 2024 |
| Signage | Framework for the supply and delivery of street name plates | 30 June 2024 |
| Signage | Framework for the supply of sign posts | 30 November 2024 |
| Signage | Framework of supply, fitting and maintenance of vehicle activated signs | 14 November 2025 |
| Signage | Framework for wayfinding projects | 28 February 2025 |
Street furniture and ironworks | Framework agreement for the supply delivery and installation of bus shelters | 7 November 2025 |
| Street lighting | Feeder pillars for electric vehicle charging infrastructure | 30 November 2024 |
| Street lighting | Festoon lighting | 31 August 2024 |
| Street lighting | Framework agreement for street lighting works | 28 February 2025 |
| Street lighting | Framework agreement for structural inspection and testing of street lighting columns | 9 December 2025 |
| Street lighting | Framework for feeder pillars | 28 February 2025 |
| Street lighting | Framework for LED (light emitting diode) luminaries | 30 May 2025 |
| Street lighting | Framework for street lighting electrical accessories | 31 January 2025 |
| Street lighting | Framework for the supply and delivery of street lighting columns | 31 December 2024 |
| Street lighting | Lighting designer to provide lighting designs | 31 March 2026 |
| Street lighting | Street lighting - independent connection provision (ICP) | 1 March 2026 |
| Street lighting | Supply of lamps / street lighting bulbs | 30 September 2024 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| Horticultural | Contract for woodland establishment and maintenance of new woodlands at various sites | 31 December 2026 |
| Seeds and plants | Framework agreement for growing, supply and delivery of common cottongrass - eriophorum angustifolium for bare peat restoration in the North Pennines | 24 March 2025 |
| Soils and dressing | Framework for the supply of commercial horticultural growing items and materials | 31 December 2024 |
| Tools and equipment | Framework to supply trees, whips and hardware | 30 September 2024 |
Verges | Grass verge and hedge cutting | 31 May 2024 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| Recruitment and assessment | Framework agreement for providers for recruitment of permanent staff for children's homes management roles | 31 March 2025 |
| Training and conferences / training | Care Academy Positive Behavioural Support Level 4 qualification | 29 August 2025 |
| Training and conferences / training | Care Academy Positive Behavioural Support Levels 6 and 7 qualifications | 29 August 2025 |
| Training and conferences / training | Framework for Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) accredited training | 30 April 2025 |
| Training and conferences / training | Framework for driver training for large goods vehicles | 31 May 2025 |
| Training and conferences / training | Framework for horticultural training | 31 March 2026 |
| Training and conferences / training | Framework for mobile elevated work platforms and harness user training | 31 December 2026 |
| Training and conferences / training | Framework for plant training (National Plant Operators Registration Scheme (NPORS accredited) and testing | 31 March 2026 |
| Training and conferences / training | Highway safety inspectors training | 30 June 2025 |
| Training and conferences / training | Provision of Domestic and Commercial Gas Training | 31 March 2024 |
| Training and conferences / training | Solution oriented approaches training | 9 May 2025 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| General support | Framework for process servers: professional service of documents to individuals involved in court proceedings | 31 March 2025 |
| General support | Legal information services and software solutions | 31 August 2024 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
Postage | Contract for the distribution of the Durham County News (DCN) and other publications | 31 March 2026 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| Passenger transport | Provision of volunteer drivers service | 30 April 2025 |
| Public transport / passenger transport | Contract for public transport services | Please see the Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS) opportunities section above |
| Public transport / taxi services / home to school | Contract for transport to and from mainstream and special education needs schools, swimming venues and adult social care establishments | Please see the Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS) opportunities section above |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| Adults | Independent advocacy services for adults | 30 June 2026 |
| Adult / advice and counselling services | Advice and mediation service for foster carers | 31 March 2026 |
| Adult / advice and counselling services | Independent mediation service for education, health and care assessments and reviews and disagreement resolution service for special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) | 8 March 2025 |
| Adult / alcohol and drug rehabilitation | Primary care alcohol related risk reduction scheme | 31 March 2025 |
| Adult / alcohol and drug rehabilitation | Substance misuse treatment and recovery services | 31 March 2025 |
| Adult / domiciliary care | Contract for short term assistance service | 30 September 2024 |
Adult / domiciliary care | Framework agreement for the provision of domiciliary care services for adults, children and young people in County Durham | 31 March 2025 |
| Adult / homeless support | Homeless support service | 30 June 2026 |
| Adult / temporary accommodation, short stay | Homeless complex needs project | 31 March 2025 |
| Adult / temporary accommodation, short stay | Somewhere safe to stay (ssts) | 30 June 2026 |
| Children / community and mental health service | Agenda days, network meetings and practice support | 31 March 2025 |
| Children / short day breaks | Framework of support services for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) | 31 May 2027 |
| Social community care supplies and services | Provision of carers support services: Lot 1 adult carers core support service; Lot 2 young carers core support service | 31 May 2026 |
| Supplies / equipment | Provision of hoists | 31 March 2024 |
| Supplies / equipment | Provision of slings | 31 March 2024 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
| Asset management and delivery | Property valuation services | 30 April 2026 |
Construction, design and engineering | Framework agreement for setting out and surveying for civil engineering works and design | 21 July 2024 |
Construction, design and engineering | Clerk of works framework | 10 October 2025 |
| Environment, sustainability and waste | Schools carbon reduction programme | 31 March 2025 |
Finance, audit and accounting | Framework agreement for the provision of additional processing capacity for our assessment and awards team based within the financial support service | 30 June 2025 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
Playground equipment | Framework for play space refurbishment, fixed play equipment and ball courts (multi use games areas) | 28 September 2024 |
| Sports equipment | Sports retail leisure products and goods | 31 January 2025 |
| Sports equipment maintenance | Gym equipment maintenance, removals and storage | 31 December 2024 |
| Sports and playground and pool maintenance | Analysis of swimming pool water | 30 June 2024 |
Sports and playground and pool maintenance | Framework for physical education and gym equipment (schools and education facilities only) - lot 1 maintenance and servicing inspections and lot 2 repair and purchase | 28 March 2026 |
Sports and playground and pool maintenance | Supply of CO2 for our swimming pools | 31 July 2024 |
Sports and playground and pool maintenance | Framework for the maintenance and servicing of swimming pool water treatment plant and equipment | 31 March 2025 |
Category | Contract description / title | Contract expiry date |
|---|---|---|
Traffic control | Framework for the supply of cameras and associated equipment for traffic monitoring | 31 October 2024 |
Pro Class Category | Contract Description / Title | Contract Expiry Date |
|---|---|---|
| Heavy construction equipment / hire | Contract for the supply of non-operated plant and equipment | 3 January 2024 |
Heavy construction equipment / purchase | Calibration of plant and equipment | 16 June 2024 |
| Leasing | Fully managed pool car scheme | 13 December 2024 |
| Signage and livery | Framework agreement for supply of licence vehicle plates and decals | 16 July 2025 |
| Vehicle management / hire | Supply of operated hired plant and equipment | Please see the Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS) opportunities section above |
Vehicle recovery | Provision of vehicle recovery services | 31 March 2024 |
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