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Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Leasing Round 5 - Project Development Area 2 - Direct Award

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Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: The Crown Estate: "Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Leasing Round 5 - Project Development Area 2 - Direct Award". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityThe Crown EstateScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Coverage: 1 active published awards; 0 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityThe Crown Estate
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
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CompetitionNot published
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Published19 Nov 2025, 18:28 GMT
Last source update19 Nov 2025, 18:28 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationConstruction-related services, Electricity, Electricity supply installations, Offshore mooring work, Offshore-module fabrication work, Subsea drilling work, Turbine works, Wind farm, Wind turbines, Wind-power installation works, Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05e4de
What is being bought
The Crown Estate is seeking to enter into a concession contract for the grant of new seabed rights to a developer for the development of a new floating offshore wind farm within a project development area (a "PDA") in the Celtic Sea, which has a maximum potential energy generation capacity of 1.5GW. These rights will be governed by an 'agreement for lease', the holder of which will acquire the rights necessary to develop a floating offshore wind farm in the relevant PDA and will have the option to enter into a lease with The Crown Estate for the construction and operation of the wind farm for the purposes of the generation, transmission and sale of electricity (or other forms of energy, where permitted), subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions detailed in the agreement for lease. The maximum contract value has been stated in this notice as [0.01 GBP] as The Crown Estate is unable to state a maximum contract value for the PDA which is the subject of this transparency notice, due to the impossibility of predicting what the likely overall value of the concession to the developer will be. The option fee price which will be payable by the developer to The Crown Estate under the agreement for lease for the PDA which is the subject of this transparency notice will be 350 GBP/MW/annum. The estimated dates for the agreement for lease are 20 February 2026 to 19 February 2036.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    19 Nov 2025, 18:28 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    19 Nov 2025, 18:28 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    19 Nov 2025, 18:28 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    Status not published
    Published valueNot published
    Refer to section II.1.4) above and Annex D4 below.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    19 Nov 2025, 18:28 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 19 Nov 2025, 00:00 GMT · Not published
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Ocean Winds UK Limited
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
Not published · signed 19 Nov 2025, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
highestValidBidValue: 0.01 (lot 1)
lowestValidBidValue: 0.01 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

The Crown Estate

Contracting authority GB-FTS-91822
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  • The Crown Estate
    buyer

    1 St James's Market, London, UK, SW1Y 4AH
    round5@thecrownestate.co.uk
    +44 2078515000

  • Ocean Winds UK Limited
    supplier

    07101190
    Shepherd And Wedderburn Llp, London, UK, EC3V 9AA
    communications@oceanwinds.com

  • The Royal Courts of Justice
    reviewBody

    The Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
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Procedure rationaleImportant note: The contract which is the subject of this notice is being awarded by The Crown Estate by way of switching to a direct award following an unsuccessful tendering procedure, as explained further below. Please note that a transparency notice has also been published in respect of this direct award (notice identifier: 2025/S 000-075016; procurement identifier: ocds-h6vhtk-05e3e2). For the avoidance of doubt, the two notices relate to the same (i.e. single) direct award., which is being run in accordance with the PA 2023. The contract is to be awarded directly to a supplier that is not an excluded supplier by virtue of section 43 of the Procurement Act 2023 ("PA 2023"). The Crown Estate held a competitive tender process for the granting of new seabed rights to developers for the development of new floating offshore wind farms within three PDAs, which was advertised by way of a concession notice published on Find a Tender on 28 February 2024 (notice identifier: 2024/S 000-006434) (Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Leasing Round 5 ("Round 5")). The Round 5 tender process was designed to result in the award of three separate agreements for lease to three different successful suppliers - one for each of the three PDAs. Two bidders remained at the final (auction) stage of the process and bid successfully for two of the PDAs. Under the rules of the Round 5 tender process no bidder could be awarded rights in respect of more than one PDA and no tender was received for the third PDA. The Crown Estate considers that for the purposes of section 43(2) of the PA 2023 no tenders were received for the agreement for lease for the third PDA. The Crown Estate considers that an award of the contract under section 19 of the PA 2023 is not possible in the circumstances. A delay to granting rights in respect of the third PDA while a further full competitive tender process is designed and run risks a number of potentially significant adverse effects on all three PDAs. Timely deployment of all three PDAs is needed to provide the certainty the supply chain, ports and other critical infrastructure need to plan and invest in floating wind in the UK. Without the full award of three PDAs, it is possible that the necessary investment in supply chain and ports may not be forthcoming (or may be delayed) resulting in possible delay to delivery. Any delays to the award of the third PDA could also delay skills development and the necessary investment in people required to support Round 5, causing delays in deployment of the programme. In addition, the experience and outcome of the Round 5 tender provide compelling evidence that the current challenging market conditions are such that a further, lengthy full tender process is unlikely to deliver a successful outcome for the third PDA.