Durham County Council is reviewing catering opportunities across County Durham and would like to hear from you
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- 7 hours ago
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A Preliminary Market Engagement exercise has been launched to open a dialogue with specialist catering businesses about the future management of their food services.
This is your chance to share your interest, suggest potential lease options, and provide key market insights that will help the Council decide on the best way forward. Your participation is an important step in helping us plan and structure any potential future procurement. Details below:
The Council has issued a Preliminary Market Engagement opportunity to support the considerations for future catering provision across the Council. This exercise is to help support the Council’s decision making going forward and consider information provided by the market on the level of interest from external provision, potential lease options and key areas of information required to help the Council in any potential Procurement activity.
For any organisation interested in participating in this Preliminary Market Engagement opportunity please follow the instructions below:
💠 Register on the Open Portal (www.open-uk.org). This is a tendering portal utilised by all Councils across the region. Registering your company on the Open Portal will allow you to view forthcoming tendering opportunities not just for Durham, but across the region.
💠 Search for ‘002777 - Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for Strategic Catering Opportunities across County Durham.’ Download, complete and submit the PME Questionnaire through the Open Portal by Wednesday 3rd December 2025 at 12 noon.
💠 If you need more support with registering on the Open Portal, please use the following link https://lnkd.in/ewSiAKrv












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