Doing business with us

Find live contract opportunities on Open

We publish the majority of our competitive contract opportunities over £10,000 on Open  along with the other north-east local authorities.

If you would like to work with us you can register on Open, free of charge. Once registered you will receive automatic alerts as new contract opportunities are published for a category/delivery area you are interested in.

Live procurement opportunities

We regularly publish opportunities for businesses and contractors to work with us on a wide range of projects. Below is a current live tender available for submission:

Independent Critical Friend Service

The Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees Safeguarding Children Partnership (HSSCP) is seeking to work with suitably qualified and experienced individuals who can offer advice on multi-agency practice and service delivery across the whole safeguarding system, in the role of an ‘Independent Critical Friend’.

Suppliers interested in providing the services are required to answer all the questions in Section 3, 4 and 5 of the application form, which is available to download below,

Independent critical friend application form

Please submit these completed sections to ChildrensCommissioning@hartlepool.gov.uk

It is envisaged that the Select List will be operational from 1st Nov 2023 until 31st Oct 2027 with the option to extend for a further 2 years subject to performance and funding.
Application onto the Select List will remain open until 31st Oct 2027, when it will be reviewed.

Consultancy opportunities of any value

If you offer a consultancy service many of our live opportunities are published using the NEPRO Solution on the Bloom website. You need to register with Bloom to bid for these opportunities.

Please contact Bloom directly to undertake this simple process at projects@bloom.services