Awarded contract

Youth Print

Details

Buyer: Durham County Council
Supplier(s): NE YOUTH LIMITED
Value: £155,000
Duration: 10 months
Topic: Youth education services
Published: 5 June 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

To provide support to the local VCS Youth Work infrastructure. This will include supporting anchor organisations to provide ongoing advice, support and mentoring to small agencies, provision of training including a Toolkit Week, support for writing funding bids to support small agencies and consortium bids. This is a recommendation that was made through the Local Youth Transformation Programme and the grant has been given in following agreement of a delivery plan by DCMS that stated we would use the funding to support this. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published5 June 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date5 June 2026
Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2027in 6 months

About the buyer

Durham County Council delivers local government services across County Durham, and buys as a local authority with its own corporate procurement team. Tenders and quotations are handled through the NEPO OPEN Portal, the council's online etendering system. Larger opportunities also appear on the government's Find a Tender Service under the Procurement Act 2023. Durham is one of twelve north-east councils sourcing goods and services through the North East Procurement Organisation. Specialist professional services can be sourced through the Bloom NEPRO framework across nineteen categories. The council also procures on behalf of additional public bodies beyond Durham itself.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Durham County Council's contract awards have been in health and social work, construction work and transport equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

80310000 · Youth education services
85312310 · Guidance services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@durham-county-council.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@durham-county-council.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@durham-county-council.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@durham-county-council.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@durham-county-council.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@durham-county-council.gov