Official UK procurement notice
Asset Management and Property Management
Authority: Blackpool Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionYou are invited to submit a response to this Request to Participate (RtP) for the provision of Asset Management and Property Management Services.
This procurement is being conducted using the Competitive Flexible Procedure in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023. The procurement process will comprise three stages, as set out in the tender documents.
Blackpool Council is seeking to appoint an experienced Asset Manager and Property Manager to maximise performance and undertake the day-to-day management of the Council's retail assets within Blackpool Town Centre. The assets within the scope of this appointment include:
Houndshill Shopping Centre: an enclosed shopping centre extending to approximately 298,000 sq ft, with 750 car parking spaces, located opposite Blackpool Tower. The centre opened in 1980, underwent refurbishment and a significant extension in 2008, and was acquired by Blackpool Council in November 2019. A further expansion was completed in 2024, incorporating a nine-screen cinema complex, including an IMAX auditorium, a ground-floor retail unit and a diner/restaurant unit.
Victoria Buildings (Corporation Street / Victoria Street Portfolio): comprising a block of seven retail units located opposite Houndshill Shopping Centre.
Marks & Spencer Premises, Church Street, Blackpool Town Centre.
The successful supplier(s) will be expected to:
Maintain and enhance income generated from the assets through proactive asset management activities.
Support and implement the Council's plans for the future development of the assets within the wider context of Blackpool Town Centre.
Report on asset performance and progress against agreed objectives to the Council's Houndshill Steering Group.
Provide the full range of health and safety, financial administration and facilities management services required for the effective operation of commercial premises of this nature.
Provide timely financial information, including expenditure data, forecasts and budget projections, to support the Council's reporting requirements.
Liaise and collaborate with other town centre stakeholders to support initiatives that enhance the visitor experience and promote business activity within Blackpool Town Centre.
The contract is anticipated to commence on 1 July 2027. The initial contract term will be five (5) years, with an option for the Council, at its sole discretion, to extend the contract annually for up to a further five (5) years, subject to satisfactory performance, contract review and budget availability. The indicative contract budget is £150,000 per annum.
Tenders are invited either from a single organisation capable of delivering both the Asset Management and Property Management functions or from multiple organisations submitting a joint bid under a single contract arrangement. Where a joint bid is submitted, the Council will expect bidders to demonstrate previous successful collaboration on comparable projects or assignments.
The appointment will be made through a three-stage procurement process. Following evaluation of the RtP stage, a maximum of five suppliers will be invited to participate in the Invitation to Tender (ITT) stage. Following evaluation of ITT submissions, a maximum of two suppliers will be invited to attend a presentation and interview stage before a final contract award decision is made.
- Not divided into lots: The Authority considered the use of lots but determined that a single contract is the most appropriate approach. The requirement involves interrelated property and asset management services which benefit from a unified strategic approach, consistent reporting, integrated data management and clear accountability for performance. Splitting the requirement into multiple lots may result in fragmented service delivery, increased contract management costs and difficulties in coordinating activities across the portfolio.
- Two-stage procedure: up to 5 candidates will be invited to tender.
- How the procedure runs: A 3 stage process comprising Request to Participate, shortlisting to 5 bidders to be invited to tender and a final interview stage which 2 bidders will be invited to.
CPV: Commercial property management services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£1,800,000
- Value
- £1,800,000 exc. VAT · £1,800,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- The Authority reserves the option to purchase additional services, works and/or consultancy support associated with the scope of the contract during its term. The requirement for any additional purchases will be determined by the Authority's business needs and funding availability. · The initial contract term will be for five (5) years. The Contracting Authority reserves the right to extend the contract for up to a further five (5) years by exercising up to five (5) separate extension periods of twelve (12) months each. Any extension will be at the sole discretion of the Authority and will be subject to satisfactory contractor performance, continued funding availability and ongoing service requirements.
- Second stage
- up to 5 candidates invited to tender
- Condition of participationThe five highest scoring bidders will be invited to tender. shortlisting
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published award criteria (3)
- Quality — Quality criteria 40% Interview 10%
- Price
- Social Value
- Condition of participationThe five highest scoring bidders will be invited to tender. shortlisting
- Price carries 30 of 100 points — a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £719,212 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring — the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Blackpool Borough Council buys Property management services of real estate on a fee or contract basis (CPV 7033) — and who usually turns up
Blackpool Borough Council’s own published record, next to the North West England market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Property management services of real estate on a fee or contract basis (CPV 7033) →
How the contest usually goes
This buyer’s published record next to the market where the work is delivered — contested contracts only, counted per lot
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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.
Here, local means registered in North West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North West England.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 32 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 bid6% / 5%
2–331% / 32%
4–650% / 32%
7+13% / 32%
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 estimate0% / 67%
Within ±2%64% / 25%
Above estimate36% / 8%
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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.
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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 7033Published estimate£1,800,000
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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 22 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid5%
2–332%
4–632%
7+32%
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Where the winning 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 guide, 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.
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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.
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Coverage and what to read with care
- Each figure explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two sides are never blended. A lot’s own market is read at its delivery region where the lot names one; where it names several, or none that can be resolved, the chart falls back to the UK-wide record for the same category and says so under the bar. An empty cell means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- When we call out a difference. A buyer figure is only flagged against the market when the sample is large enough that the gap is unlikely to be chance; at most two callouts appear, always phrased as a comparison with both numbers and the sample size.
- Coverage (re-measured 5 Oct on the live record, 94,497 awarded procedures of the last three years). 51 % publish a bid count and 72 % a delivery region, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice names none, labelled. Of the 17,687 award-vs-estimate pairs, 34 % sit exactly on the estimate — the buyer published the award at the figure it advertised. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden, and a distribution is not drawn as percentages below ten observations.
- “Match”, text similarity, the expected-bid figure and the distribution drawn beneath it are model outputs, not published facts or win probabilities. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Requests to participate open
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 9 Oct 2026, 17:02 BST
- Last source update
- 9 Oct 2026, 17:52 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 4 Mar 2027
- Authority reference
DN832390- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095838- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078528Find a Tender
- How it runs
- A 3 stage process comprising Request to Participate, shortlisting to 5 bidders to be invited to tender and a final interview stage which 2 bidders will be invited to.
- Risks
- Additional Properties/Assets The Contracting Authority may wish to add additional properties from time to time throughout the contract period. This would be by agreement between the parties. No additions are currently planned. Local Government Reorganisation The Council is currently operating during a period of Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) affecting councils across Lancashire. Subject to Parliamentary approval and the final arrangements for LGR, the existing council structure will be replaced by new unitary authority arrangements. Any contract awarded as a result of this procurement may therefore transfer to, be managed by, or be delivered for the benefit of a successor authority or authorities from Vesting Day. The Council reserves the right, subject to applicable law, the procurement documents, the contract terms and the final LGR arrangements, to transfer, assign, novate, vary, extend, aggregate, disaggregate, host or otherwise make arrangements reasonably required to support LGR and continuity of service delivery. Whilst there is currently uncertainty about when this will happen , as the Government are reviewing the proposals for LGR, the Contracting Authority will update Suppliers regarding any substantive changes announced by the Government that may have an impact on this but currently none are foreseen.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via ProContract (Due North)- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 4 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Tender submission deadline
- 4 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 28 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
- Shortlist
- up to 5 candidates invited to tender
Timeline
5 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today9 Oct 2026, 17:02 BST
- Clarification questions byin 19 days28 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 26 days4 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 146 days4 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 264 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 9 Oct 2026- Tender notice published9 Oct 2026, 17:52 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published9 Oct 2026, 17:40 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published9 Oct 2026, 17:02 BSTUK4
- First tender notice published9 Oct 2026, 17:02 BST
Published amendments (2)
Deletion of wording included in error in the scope section.
The following link to the tender opportunity and electronically available documents is added to the notice: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=3d597296-ffc3-f111-813c-005056b64545
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specificationsAccess: All tender documents will be available here: https://www.the-chest.org.uk/
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender