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OpenStage · planning

Durham County Council

Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for a Framework for Fitness Companies and/or Pool Based Fitness Companies to deliver exercise classes and other sessions in Leisure Facilities and Community Settings within County Durham

Recreation & CultureCPV 92600000
Value£800k
Deadline
Published1 Apr 2026
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
zoe.embleton@durham.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£800ktotal contract value
median £75k
this tender£0£2.1m

This is a large award for Recreation, Culture & Sport — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 3,522 valued Recreation, Culture & Sport tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The Council are inviting suppliers to participate in preliminary engagement to gain insight from the market with the purpose of making any potential future framework opportunity well framed, feasible, focused and of likely interest to the market.

We are seeking interest from fitness companies, including gym based and pool based, who are interested in delivering exercise classes within our Leisure Facilities and Community Settings across County Durham.

A variety of informal agreements are currently in place across the Council.

We now intend to formalise these arrangements by establishing a new framework that will support improved consistency and quality.

This notice forms part of our preliminary market engagement, offering you the opportunity to share feedback and comments before the framework is released for formal tender submissions.

Please note the contract value is based on the total framework value over a 4 year period and is expected to include a range of providers, so this opportunity is particularly suitable for SMEs.

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We now intend to formalise these arrangements

We now intend to formalise these arrangements by establishing a new framework that will support improved consistency and quality.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067b3d
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
030604-2026
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