Official UK procurement notice
Bassingthorpe Farm Strategic Development Partner
Authority: Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council and the Fitzwilliam Wentworth Estate are seeking to identify and appoint a strategic development partner in connection with the planning, servicing, delivery and/or facilitation of the phased development of land at Bassingthorpe Farm, Rotherham.
The site has been allocated for development with a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) guiding the process. In line with the allocation and SPD it is anticipated that the site will be brought forward for a residential-led mixed-use development including up to approximately 2,000 homes together with associated infrastructure, highways, utilities, drainage, public open space, community uses and related placemaking works.
The procurement is intended to identify a strategic development partner capable of:
- working collaboratively with the landowners to optimise viability, deliverability and value;
- promoting and securing a comprehensive and deliverable planning strategy;
- coordinating and/or delivering enabling and strategic infrastructure;
- facilitating phased development delivery, including potential onward parcel disposals to housebuilders or other delivery structures; and
- supporting long-term stewardship and delivery objectives.
The precise commercial and contractual structure through which the development will ultimately be delivered has not yet been determined and may include elements of development agreement, land disposal, phased land drawdown and related agreements.
The selected strategic development partner is expected to assume substantial development, delivery, market and implementation risk associated with the project.
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Construction work · Real estate services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Construction work (CPV 45) →
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. Small firms win more of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 100% against 77%, n=25.
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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 Yorkshire and the Humber.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
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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.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.
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 bid39% / 33%
2–339% / 23%
4–617% / 19%
7+6% / 25%
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 estimate25% / 48%
Within ±2%75% / 30%
Above estimate0% / 23%
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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 #1Estimate not published
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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 223 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid33%
2–323%
4–619%
7+25%
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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
- 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
- 23 Jul 2026, 08:00 BST
- Last source update
- 10 Sept 2026, 15:40 BST
- Authority reference
25-340- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-086033- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d158Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
23 Jul 2026 → 1 Nov 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published90 days ago23 Jul 2026, 08:00 BST
- Latest notice published41 days ago10 Sept 2026, 15:40 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 8 days28 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
A Preliminary Market Engagement event will take place between 10:00am to 12:30pm on Tuesday, 13th October 2026 at the ARC cinema, Rotherham.
The address of the venue is: ARC Cinema, Forge Island, Bridge St, Rotherham S60 1QJ. The event is in-person attendance only and will not be recorded.
The purpose of the event is to present the residential development opportunity at Bassingthorpe Farm in Rotherham which is due to go to tender via the competitive flexible procedure in 2027. The site covers circa 187ha and is capable of delivering up to 2,000 homes.
The event will consist of presentations by landowners and other speakers covering the background of the strategic allocation and planning policy considerations. It will also provide a high-level overview of the funding, procurement and commercial arrangements connected with the opportunity.
As part of the event, a networking session will be held after the presentations. Refreshments will be provided.
The developers wishing to attend the event need to reserve their space by confirming their attendance through registration. Please register for the event by emailing to [email protected] .
Please provide the following information in your registration email: delegate(s) name(s), job title(s), organisation and type of organisation, contacts details. Please indicate what your organisation's interest would be in the project: e.g. master/lead developer, housebuilder, contractor/sub-contractor, consultant.
To ensure all organisations can join us within our venue limits, attendance is capped at three guests per organisation.
Information shared by the landowners and speakers during the event will be shared in summary form as part of the tender pack released when the opportunity is procured in 2027.
The PME event will be followed by a Request for Information (RFI) circulated via Rotherham's procurement e-tendering portal YORtender (yortender.eu-supply.com ↗) on 14th October 2026. The aim of the RFI is to seek potential developers' views on elements of the scheme and potential commercial arrangements prior to launching the formal procurement process.
The RFI will contain instructions about raising clarifications questions and submitting the RFI responses, which are required to be submitted by 28th October 2026.
General queries about the preliminary market engagement process and the scheme should be sent to the Procurement email [email protected].
As detailed above, registrations for the preliminary market engagement event should be sent to [email protected].
- Tender notice expectedin 103 days31 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 376 days1 Nov 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 23 Jul 2026- Pipeline notice published23 Jul 2026, 08:00 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Sept 2026, 15:40 BSTUK2
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
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
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender