Official UK procurement notice
Carrickfergus Regeneration Contract 1 (Castle, Town Hall & Other Works)
Authority: Mid and east Antrim Borough Council (Local council)·Procurement run by: MCADAM DESIGN LIMITED
The contract is for the provision of regeneration works throughout Carrickfergus Town: o Refurbishment and restoration works within Carrickfergus Castle; Northern Ireland's most important Monument in State Care.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe contract is for the provision of regeneration works throughout Carrickfergus Town:
- Carrickfergus Castle
o Refurbishment and restoration works within Carrickfergus Castle; Northern Ireland's most important Monument in State Care. The Castle works comprise heritage-led visitor, access and facilitating works for interpretative fit-out works to include;
The removal of modern additions (Keep staircase, modular buildings, visitor building etc.),
Provision of new build visitor facilities building
New spiral staircase intervention within Keep
New passenger lift intervention within Keep
Improved visitor facilities, level access routes, sensory room, changing places facility
Conservation and repair works,
Building services upgrades,
Hard & soft landscaping
Other ancillary works.
- Civic Centre, Courtyard & Town Hall
o Internal refurbishment and alteration works of Carrickfergus Town Hall, Civic Centre, Courtyard and associated buildings to include:
Internal refurbishment of Civic Centre to expand museum, café, Council office accommodation and public facing functions, alteration and upgrades of building services.
Upgrades to the Courtyard to change use from car park into outdoor events space including a new entrance to Civic Centre café. Alteration and upgrades of building services.
Refurbishment of existing single storey building within Courtyard.
Internal refurbishment of Town Hall (B+ Listing), upgrades to Jubilee Hall (performance/events space), conservation and repair works, alteration and upgrades of building services.
Other ancillary works.
- Approx Contract works duration: 18 months.
- How the procedure runs: It is anticipated that the 6 Suppliers that: satisfy the completeness and compliance checks; satisfy the requirements as to legal and financial capacity; have not been excluded and who achieve the highest overall scores in the Participation Stage evaluation, may be shortlisted for the Tender Stage. Where there is a tie for 6th place, then all Suppliers in 6th place will be invited to tender. For the purposes of this exercise, a tie for 6th place is deemed to occur where two or more Suppliers have identical scores or a score within 1 mark (out of a score of 100) of the 6th place score. Suppliers shortlisted from the Participation Stage process may be invited to the Tender Stage. Tender submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria set out in ItP Part B, Section 7.8.2. A draft version of the Tender Stage Documentation is included with the PSD. Suppliers should note: 1. The Tender Stage Documentation included with the PSD is in outline draft form only and may be subject to change before the Tender Stage commences and is provided at this Participation Stage solely for indicative information purposes only.
CPV: Building construction work · Refurbishment work · Restoration work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£9,800,000
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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).
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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 (3)
- Quality: 25%
- Cost: 65%
- Social Value: 10%
Published award criteria (3)
- Quality
- Social Value
- Cost
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 65 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6.5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £11,195,618 (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 Mid and east Antrim Borough Council buys Other building completion work (CPV 4545), and who usually turns up
Mid and east Antrim Borough Council’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: Other building completion work (CPV 4545) →
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No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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How often local firms win similar work.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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 38 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid64% / 8%
2–30% / 17%
4–636% / 30%
7+0% / 45%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Awards below, close to or above the estimate, per lot. The buyer side adds below-threshold contracts with a pre-award estimate; an award inside a published range counts as close.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate50% / 39%
Within ±2%17% / 32%
Above estimate33% / 29%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 45Published estimate£9.8m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 45. The comparison uses that group.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 88 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid19%
2–325%
4–630%
7+26%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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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.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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 and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts, the earlier contracts and past suppliers on a tender's competition panel, the buyer's decision figure and its award against estimate; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 Nov 2026, 15:34 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Nov 2026, 15:34 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 22 Jan 2027
- Authority reference
T799- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107680- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07badbFind a Tender
- How it runs
It is anticipated that the 6 Suppliers that: satisfy the completeness and compliance checks; satisfy the requirements as to legal and financial capacity; have not been excluded and who achieve the highest overall scores in the Participation Stage evaluation, may be shortlisted for the Tender Stage.
Where there is a tie for 6th place, then all Suppliers in 6th place will be invited to tender. For the purposes of this exercise, a tie for 6th place is deemed to occur where two or more Suppliers have identical scores or a score within 1 mark (out of a score of 100) of the 6th place score.
Suppliers shortlisted from the Participation Stage process may be invited to the Tender Stage. Tender submissions will be evaluated in accordance with the criteria set out in ItP Part B, Section 7.8.2.
A draft version of the Tender Stage Documentation is included with the PSD.
Suppliers should note:
- The Tender Stage Documentation included with the PSD is in outline draft form only and may be subject to change before the Tender Stage commences and is provided at this Participation Stage solely for indicative information purposes only.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Jaggaer- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 11 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Tender submission deadline
- 11 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 4 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
e-sourcingni.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.shtml ↗
eSourcing NI is the Authority's electronic tendering portal. Should you have any queries or difficulties in relation to use of the eSourcing NI portal, please contact eSourcing NI's dedicated supplier helpdesk by calling 0800 069 8630 or emailing [email protected]
Timeline
12 Nov 2026 → 1 Sept 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published1h ago12 Nov 2026, 15:34 GMT
- Today12 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 21 days4 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 28 days11 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 71 days22 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 292 days1 Sept 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published12 Nov 2026, 15:34 GMTUK4
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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- MCADAM DESIGN LIMITEDProcuring entityICT Consultants
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications eSourcing NI is the Authority's electronic tendering portal. Should you have any queries or difficulties in relation to use of the eSourcing NI portal, please contact eSourcing NI's dedicated supplier helpdesk by calling 0800 069 8630 or emailing [email protected]
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender