Official UK procurement notice
Central Morecambe - Development Opportunity Sites
Authority: Lancaster City Council (Local council)·On behalf of: Lancashire County Council
Leveraging the development of Eden Project Morecambe, Lancaster City Council and Lancashire County Council (the councils) have high aspirations for Morecambe. The councils are working with a multi-disciplinary professional services team to establish the basis to drive positive change within Central Morecambe over the next decade.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLeveraging the development of Eden Project Morecambe, Lancaster City Council and Lancashire County Council (the councils) have high aspirations for Morecambe. The councils are working with a multi-disciplinary professional services team to establish the basis to drive positive change within Central Morecambe over the next decade. The aim is to enhance its role as a local service centre and boost its commercial, cultural and leisure offer. The councils seek to understand market appetite for bringing forward development, the opportunities and challenges faced and how these may be overcome.
CPV: Construction work · Real estate services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- 30 May 2025, 15:00 BST
- Last source update
- 30 May 2025, 15:00 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-028854- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0529eaFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 May 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published30 May 2025, 15:00 BST
- Market engagement27 Jun 2025, 00:59 BST
The Councils have issued a pre-market engagement (PME) notice and a Request for Information (RFI) to understand the market interest and capacity in taking forward Central Morecambe sites in line with the outline strategic objectives, their potential uses and the best delivery model to ensure successful outcomes.
The Market Engagement Information Pack is available on the Proactis ProContract web portal 'The Chest'. Interested parties are invited to download and engage with this pre market engagement by:
- Go to procontract.due-north.com/Opportunities ↗
- Select 'Lancaster City Council' from the Organisation list
- Search for Project ref. DN776302 or title 'Central Morecambe - Development Opportunity Sites'
- Select 'express interest in this opportunity
- Download the Market Engagement Information Pack and complete the attached questionnaire by the deadline date.
The deadline for responses is Friday 27th June 2025.
- Contract starts215 days ago1 Apr 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published30 May 2025, 15:00 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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- Lancashire County CouncilProcuring entityFunding partner
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender