TVCA-PROC-0632 - Pre-Tender Market Engagement - Full Business Case Development for access improvements at North Road Railway Station, Darlington
Tees Valley Combined Authority · Local authority
In brief
Tees Valley Combined Authority has announced plans to buy research work. This is an early notice: there is nothing to bid on yet, but it tells you a tender may follow.
The notice does not state a value.
The contract runs for 1 year, starting 2 March 2026.
Built from the notice's own fields. Always check the official notice before you bid.
Can I win this?
Competition
Usually low: a median of 2 bids per contract for this buyer (from 61 awards in the last 12 months).
What the notice says
Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA), part of the Tees Valley Combined Authority Group, seeks to engage the market through this Pre-Tender Market Engagement (PTME) exercise in preparation for the potential procurement of a supplier to write a Full Business Case (FBC) on behalf of Tees Valley Combined Authority, for an accessibility project which will enable to persons of reduced mobility to be able to use the station. As part of the scheme there will be major upgrades to CCTV, lighting, platform furniture and the public realm in an around North Road Railway Station which will complement the Hopetown Museum. Through this PTME, the Contracting Authority aims to: •Understand the market’s…Read the full description
How to bid
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Timeline
- Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 074352-2025
Last time this was bought
Digital Transport CRSTS/TCR Business Case Development
- Won by
- Ove Arup & Partners Ltd
- Awarded
- 13 October 2025
- Value
- Not stated, or split across lots
- Contract ends
- 12 April 2026
Matched on Tees Valley Combined Authority, the type of work and the title; it may be a related contract rather than the same one. Check the notice to be sure.
About the buyer
Procurements
222Awards
125Suppliers it has used most for research
- Counterculture Partnership LLP2 contracts
- Knowledge Train Limited2 contracts
- Alvarez & Marshal Infrastructure & Capital Projects LLP1 contract
- Counterculture LLP1 contract
- ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICES LIMITED T/A Fortia Insight1 contract
Similar open tenders
All open research tenders- £220kestimated
- £260mframework ceiling
From notice 074352-2025 on Find a Tender, first published 17 November 2025. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.