Official UK procurement notice
Development Partner for the Blackpool Central Housing Regeneration Area Scheme
Authority: BLACKPOOL COUNCIL (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBlackpool Council ("Council") is seeking to procure a Development Partner, with the requisite skills and track record to work in partnership with the Council to redevelop a 5.41-hectare site close to Blackpool town centre to deliver a high quality residential-led scheme, including the following key worksteams:
- demolish up to 300 densely populated properties and existing structures including the removal of associated infrastructure;
- undertake site clearance and preparation work;
- develop up to 230 new dwellings (use class C3) with car and cycle parking;
- develop local centre uses comprising floorspace for flexible E use classes (including office, retail, leisure including food and beverage and F2 use classes (including halls, meeting places for local community);
- deliver new public realm and hard and soft landscaped public open spaces;
- and provide associated infrastructure and highway works.
Please see the Request to Participate ("RTP") document for further information which is available via the Council's procurement portal (procontract.due-north.com ↗.).
The estimated contract value of this Project on the defined Site (within the red boundary line), as set out in the RTP is £102,000,000 (inclusive of VAT).
Please note, the Council reserves the right to bring forward similar phases at its discretion, subject to the Contract Documents, during the term within the extended red boundary line (please see the RTP for further information).
The total estimated value set out in this tender notice includes: extension options; and the provision for potential, future phases and options for further similar development activity. The Council cannot guarantee that any extension options or further phases will be progressed.
Subject to the necessary approvals, development works in respect of the Project on the Site are anticipated to begin in 2028.
The Council has entered into a grant funding agreement ("GFA") with the Homes and Community Agency ("Homes England"). This project is now backed by £110.4m of grant funding from Homes England and is part of a wider 15-year vision to transform housing and communities across inner Blackpool.
The project is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Blackpool; it marks the start of the journey to deliver transformational change to housing in the heart of Blackpool's urban area.
The Council is adopting a multi staged competitive flexible procedure ("CFP") process pursuant to section 20(2)(b) of the Procurement Act 2023 ("Act"), to procure a development partner.
- Two-stage procedure: up to 3 candidates will be invited to tender.
- How the procedure runs: The Council has published this tender notice and is adopting a multi stage CFP process pursuant to section 20(2)(b) of the Act and is inviting tenderers to submit a RTP response. The Council will use the RTP stage, which consists of the procurement specific questionnaire and conditions of participation, to shortlist 3 Tenderers, who submit the highest scoring RTP responses evaluated in accordance with the RTP evaluation methodology, to take forward to the invitation to submit initial tender stage of the CFP procurement process. The Council will use the invitation to submit initial tender stage, to invite the 3 shortlisted Tenderers to enter into an introductory dialogue session with the Council (details of which will be set out in the Invitation to Participate in Dialogue ("ITPD") document. The Council will also publish the invitation to submit initial tenders ("ISIT") document (alongside the ITPD) which will set out the instructions regarding the submission of initial tenders ("Initial Tender"). Please note, the draft head of terms ("Heads of Terms") will be published alongside the ISIT which will set out the Council's key legal positions in the Contract Documents. The Council will evaluate Initial Tenders and will provide initial feedback to the 3 shortlisted Tenderers, the purpose of this feedback is to direct the 3 shortlisted Tenderers to areas of development which should be addressed further in dialogue and in subsequent stages of the procurement process. Tenderers should not, therefore, rely on any Initial Tender feedback as either exhaustive or indicative of final scores, and should constantly improve their proposals throughout the procurement process. The Council will then use the invitation to submit final tender stage to invite the 3 shortlisted Tenderers to enter into a subsequent round of dialogue with the Council (details of which will be set out in the Invitation to Participate in Further Dialogue ("ITPFD") document), before publishing the invitation to submit final tenders ("ISFT") document calling for Tenderers to submit a final tender ("Final Tender") in accordance with the ISFT. The Council will evaluate and moderate Final Tender submissions in accordance with the ISFT to determine the Council's preferred Tenderer, i.e. the Tenderer who obtained the highest total score being the most advantageous tenderer. Please note, whilst not envisaged, the Council reserves the right to enter into additional and subsequent rounds of dialogue with all 3 Tenderers (on an equal basis) as may be required prior to and / or following the submission of Final Tenders and prior to confirmation of preferred tenderer status to the most advantageous tenderer. Each tenderer should carefully consider the RTP including the full suite of supporting documents, prior to the submission of a RTP response. Clarification questions may be submitted via the Council's procurement portal. The Council will endeavour to answer all reasonable questions and clarifications raised via the procurement portal up until the deadline for queries.
CPV: Construction work for highways, roads · Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses · Construction work for subsidised residential accommodation · Development of residential real estate · Housing services · Residential building rental or sale services · Residential property renting or leasing services · Residential property services · Sale of residential real estate · Site preparation work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£300,000,000
- Economic & financial standing
Participation in this procurement is subject to the conditions of participation and associated evaluation methodologies as set out in the RTP, available via Blackpool Council's Procurement Portal: The Chest: procontract.due-north.com ↗.
- Technical & professional ability
Participation in this procurement is subject to the conditions of participation and associated evaluation methodologies as set out in the RTP, available via Blackpool Council's Procurement Portal: The Chest: procontract.due-north.com ↗.
- Condition of participationshortlisting
The Council will use the RTP stage, which consists of the procurement specific questionnaire and conditions of participation, to shortlist 3 tenderers, who submit the highest scoring RTP responses evaluated in accordance with the RTP, to take forward to the invitation to submit initial tender stage of the CFP procurement process.
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 sub-criteria (5)
- Scheme Proposals: 25%
- Delivery and Partnership Approach, Programme and Risk: 20%
- Legal: 10%
- Commercial and Financial: 30%
- Social Value: 15%
Published award criteria (5)
- Scheme Proposals: Please note, the Council pursuant to section 24 of the Act intends to refine the award criteria by adding sub-criteria which shall be confirmed and published in the ISIT.
- Delivery and Partnership Approach, Programme and Risk: Please note, the Council pursuant to section 24 of the Act intends to refine the award criteria by adding sub-criteria which shall be confirmed and published in the ISIT.
- Social Value: Please note, the Council pursuant to section 24 of the Act intends to refine the award criteria by adding sub-criteria which shall be confirmed and published in the ISIT.
- Commercial and Financial: Please note, the Council pursuant to section 24 of the Act intends to refine the award criteria by adding sub-criteria which shall be confirmed and published in the ISIT.
- Legal: Please note, the Council pursuant to section 24 of the Act intends to refine the award criteria by adding sub-criteria which shall be confirmed and published in the ISIT.
- Economic & financial standing
Participation in this procurement is subject to the conditions of participation and associated evaluation methodologies as set out in the RTP, available via Blackpool Council's Procurement Portal: The Chest: procontract.due-north.com ↗.
- Technical & professional ability
Participation in this procurement is subject to the conditions of participation and associated evaluation methodologies as set out in the RTP, available via Blackpool Council's Procurement Portal: The Chest: procontract.due-north.com ↗.
- Condition of participationshortlisting
The Council will use the RTP stage, which consists of the procurement specific questionnaire and conditions of participation, to shortlist 3 tenderers, who submit the highest scoring RTP responses evaluated in accordance with the RTP, to take forward to the invitation to submit initial tender stage of the CFP procurement process.
- 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 £59,950,726 (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 COUNCIL buys Building construction work (CPV 4521), and who usually turns up
BLACKPOOL 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: Building construction work (CPV 4521) →
How the contest usually goes
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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 38 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 bid16% / 12%
2–326% / 36%
4–642% / 30%
7+16% / 21%
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% / 43%
Within ±2%72% / 17%
Above estimate28% / 40%
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£300m
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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 33 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–336%
4–630%
7+21%
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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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 28 Jul 2026, 15:55 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Oct 2026, 11:39 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 31 Jul 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-099374- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d59dFind a Tender
- How it runs
The Council has published this tender notice and is adopting a multi stage CFP process pursuant to section 20(2)(b) of the Act and is inviting tenderers to submit a RTP response.
The Council will use the RTP stage, which consists of the procurement specific questionnaire and conditions of participation, to shortlist 3 Tenderers, who submit the highest scoring RTP responses evaluated in accordance with the RTP evaluation methodology, to take forward to the invitation to submit initial tender stage of the CFP procurement process.
The Council will use the invitation to submit initial tender stage, to invite the 3 shortlisted Tenderers to enter into an introductory dialogue session with the Council (details of which will be set out in the Invitation to Participate in Dialogue ("ITPD") document. The Council will also publish the invitation to submit initial tenders ("ISIT") document (alongside the ITPD) which will set out the instructions regarding the submission of initial tenders ("Initial Tender").
Please note, the draft head of terms ("Heads of Terms") will be published alongside the ISIT which will set out the Council's key legal positions in the Contract Documents.
The Council will evaluate Initial Tenders and will provide initial feedback to the 3 shortlisted Tenderers, the purpose of this feedback is to direct the 3 shortlisted Tenderers to areas of development which should be addressed further in dialogue and in subsequent stages of the procurement process. Tenderers should not, therefore, rely on any Initial Tender feedback as either exhaustive or indicative of final scores, and should constantly improve their proposals throughout the procurement process.
The Council will then use the invitation to submit final tender stage to invite the 3 shortlisted Tenderers to enter into a subsequent round of dialogue with the Council (details of which will be set out in the Invitation to Participate in Further Dialogue ("ITPFD") document), before publishing the invitation to submit final tenders ("ISFT") document calling for Tenderers to submit a final tender ("Final Tender") in accordance with the ISFT. The Council will evaluate and moderate Final Tender submissions in accordance with the ISFT to determine the Council's preferred Tenderer, i.e. the Tenderer who obtained the highest total score being the most advantageous tenderer.
Please note, whilst not envisaged, the Council reserves the right to enter into additional and subsequent rounds of dialogue with all 3 Tenderers (on an equal basis) as may be required prior to and / or following the submission of Final Tenders and prior to confirmation of preferred tenderer status to the most advantageous tenderer.
Each tenderer should carefully consider the RTP including the full suite of supporting documents, prior to the submission of a RTP response.
Clarification questions may be submitted via the Council's procurement portal. The Council will endeavour to answer all reasonable questions and clarifications raised via the procurement portal up until the deadline for queries.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via ProContract (Due North)- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 20 Nov 2026, 18:00 GMT
- Tender submission deadline
- 20 Nov 2026, 18:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 13 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
- Shortlist
- up to 3 candidates invited to tender
RTP submissions should be made in line with the Instructions for RTP Submission section in the Request to Participate document. RTP submissions must be received by the Council via the Procurement Portal, ProActis - procontract.due-north.com ↗
Timeline
28 Jul 2026 → 1 Aug 2027 · 8 dates- Planning notice published85 days ago28 Jul 2026, 15:55 BST
- Market engagement40 days ago11 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
This PME exercise is being carried out pursuant to Section 16 of the Procurement Act 2023.
Please see 'Description' above for the Council's objectives in relation to this PME exercise.
A PME Brief document containing key project information and Project Objectives is provided on the procurement portal - available free of charge at - procontract.due-north.com ↗ ('Procurement Portal').
A PME Questionnaire which interested parties are invited to respond to by the published deadline of 11 September at 1pm is also available on the Procurement Portal.
The final date for clarifications to be raised by interested parties is 1pm on 8 September 2026.
The Council will also be hosting a Market Briefing Session for interested parties, where the Council will present the development opportunity and the PME exercise. The event will be held on Friday 4th September commencing at 11am.
Organisations interested in attending the Market Briefing Session should confirm their attendance via the messaging function in the Procurement Portal, where location information will be confirmed.
Due to venue restrictions organisations attendance will be limited to a maximum of two (2) attendees per each organisation.
Parties not able to attend will, on request, be able to access a recording of the event following it taking place.
Please see the General Conditions set out in the PME Brief on the Procurement Portal which apply to this PME.
- Next notice expected20 days ago1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Tender notice published1 day ago21 Oct 2026, 11:39 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 23 days13 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 30 days20 Nov 2026, 18:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 283 days31 Jul 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 283 days1 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
6 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 28 Jul 2026- Pipeline notice published28 Jul 2026, 15:55 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Aug 2026, 08:03 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published21 Oct 2026, 11:39 BSTUK4
- Published value published: £300,000,00021 Oct 2026, 11:39 BST
- Status changed to active21 Oct 2026, 11:39 BST
- Procurement method changed21 Oct 2026, 11:39 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
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender