Official UK procurement notice
6554852 Grosvenor Development Scheme PME
Authority: Department for Communities (Central government)·On behalf of: Department of Finance Northern Ireland, Construction and Procurement Delivery
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPreliminary Market Engagement to establish feedback from the market to develop and finalise the procurement documents for the procurement of a developer
The Department for Communities (DfC) is undertaking this procurement for the appointment of a developer for the regeneration of the former Grosvenor Barracks site.
DfC intends to facilitate a vibrant and inclusive community, incorporating private housing and a minimum of 60 social housing units, delivered within a sustainable, low carbon, high quality residential environment.
The successful developer will enter into a Development Agreement under Licence with DfC to deliver this project. This Agreement will set out the contractual framework governing the development, including obligations, conditions, and procedural requirements.
The Developer will be responsible for all design work required to secure full planning permission and satisfy requirements of all other statutory bodies. The Developer will be responsible for all aspects of the construction of the works, in full compliance with all relevant statutory regulations and relevant legislation. This includes entering into an agreement with a Housing Association for the delivery of the social housing units.
CPV: Architectural design services · Building construction work · Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses · Construction work for social services buildings
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Department for Communities buys Building construction work (CPV 4521), and who usually turns up
Department for Communities’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Building construction work (CPV 4521) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Northern Ireland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 29 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid27% / 31%
2–327% / 17%
4–645% / 19%
7+0% / 33%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate11% / 31%
Within ±2%56% / 14%
Above estimate33% / 55%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 4521Published estimate£30m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 58 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid31%
2–317%
4–619%
7+33%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 29 May 2026, 11:13 BST
- Last source update
- 29 May 2026, 12:22 BST
- Authority reference
C000980ARG- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-050796- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a891Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
29 May 2026 → 25 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published148 days ago29 May 2026, 11:13 BST
- Market engagement120 days ago25 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Please register on eTenders NI (etendersni.gov.uk/epps/home.do ↗) and submit the completed EOI Questions attached to Resource No 6554852 before the submission date or alternatively submit completed responses to Lambert Smith Hampton e mail address [email protected]
- Tender notice expected57 days ago27 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today24 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 93 days25 Jan 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 29 May 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 May 2026, 11:13 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 May 2026, 12:22 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Engagement email address changed Please register on eTenders NI (https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps/home.do) and submit the completed EOI Questions attached to Resource No 6554852 before the submission date or alternatively submit completed responses to Lambert Smith Hampton e mail address [email protected]
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
3 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- Department of Finance Northern Ireland, Construction and Procurement DeliveryBeneficiary authority
- CPD - Construction DivisionProcess contact pointProcuring entityClient advisers to the Authority
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender