Official UK procurement notice
College Heath Road Development
Authority: Havebury Housing Partnership (Housing)·On behalf of: THE DESIGN PARTNERSHIP (ELY) LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Procurement is for the design and construction of a residential development at College Heath Road, Mildenhall, comprising 40 affordable homes together with all associated infrastructure, external works, roads, drainage, utility connections, landscaping and statutory approvals.
The Contract will be delivered under a JCT Design and Build Contract 2024, as amended by the Authority.
The successful Contractor will assume responsibility for completing and coordinating the design and for constructing the Works in accordance with the Employer's Requirements, accepted Contractor's Proposals and all Contract requirements.
The Contract includes sectional completion requirements and associated milestone obligations. Tenderers will be required to achieve the sectional completion dates, handover requirements and related delivery milestones specified within the Tender Documents. The Contractor shall be responsible for programming, managing and coordinating the Works to ensure achievement of all sectional and overall completion requirements.
The Contractor will be responsible for design development, statutory approvals, Building Regulations compliance, NHBC Social Housing Warranty requirements, utility infrastructure, highway and drainage adoption processes, testing, commissioning, certification, handover and defects management.
The development is located on a brownfield site formerly occupied by council offices. Previous demolition works have been undertaken; however, some hardstanding, foundations and spoil remain on site. An existing dwelling located in the south-west corner of the site is to be demolished as part of the Works. The successful Contractor shall be responsible for the demolition of the remaining dwelling, completion of all associated site clearance and enabling works, management of existing site constraints and integration of the completed development with existing infrastructure and service networks. Tenderers are expected to satisfy themselves as to the nature of the Site and any constraints relevant to the delivery of the project.
The Authority places particular importance on programme certainty, design quality, build quality, building safety, regulatory compliance, competence management, defect prevention, successful handover and customer satisfaction. The Contractor will be required to manage planning condition discharge, utility infrastructure, statutory approvals, adoption processes, testing, commissioning, certification and sectional completion requirements in accordance with the Tender Documents.
- How the procedure runs: A two-stage procedure consisting of: 1) Stage 1 PSQ - utilising Common Assessment Standards and assessed Technical & Professional capability questions. This stage includes Conditions of Participation relating to exclusion grounds, financial standing and technical and professional capability. Tenderers must achieve a minimum Stage 1 assessed score of 50% and a maximum of the six highest-scoring Tenderers will be invited to participate in Stage 2. 2) Stage 2 - Invitation to Tender. Tenderers shortlisted from Stage 1 will be invited to submit a final tender comprising quality and price submissions. Tenders will be evaluated on the basis of the Most Advantageous Tender using a 40% Quality / 60% Price evaluation methodology. Tenderers must achieve a minimum quality score equivalent to 50% of the available quality marks (i.e. 20 out of 40 weighted quality marks) to be considered for award.
CPV: Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£11,400,000
- Economic & financial standing
Minimum turnover:
Minimum annual turnover of £14.25m.
Net assets:
Positive net assets in the most recently available accounts or provision of satisfactory alternative security acceptable to the Authority.
Liquidity:
Current ratio of at least 1.0 or provision of additional evidence satisfactory to the Authority.
Bonding:
Ability to provide a performance bond equal to 10% of the contract value if required.
Cashflow:
Sufficient cashflow and working capital facilities to deliver the contract.
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 award criteria (2)
- Quality: Project Team & Resources - 4% Site Analysis & Risk Mitigation - 5% Programme - 7% Design Management, Innovation & Design Assurance - 7% Building Safety, Compliance & Competence - 4% Construction Quality & Defects - 5% Sustainability - 3% Relationship & Community - 2% Social Value Delivery Plan 3%
- Price
- Economic & financial standing
Minimum turnover:
Minimum annual turnover of £14.25m.
Net assets:
Positive net assets in the most recently available accounts or provision of satisfactory alternative security acceptable to the Authority.
Liquidity:
Current ratio of at least 1.0 or provision of additional evidence satisfactory to the Authority.
Bonding:
Ability to provide a performance bond equal to 10% of the contract value if required.
Cashflow:
Sufficient cashflow and working capital facilities to deliver the contract.
- Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £17,054,735 (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 Havebury Housing Partnership buys Building construction work (CPV 4521), and who usually turns up
Havebury Housing Partnership’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
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.
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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 East of England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside East of 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 29 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 bid0% / 9%
2–30% / 32%
4–691% / 36%
7+9% / 23%
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 estimate67% / 42%
Within ±2%11% / 20%
Above estimate22% / 38%
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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.
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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£11m
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid6%
2–316%
4–673%
7+5%
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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.
Based on 36 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£11m
Estimate£11m
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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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Mears LimitedLarge | £2.0bn34 awards in 36m · last this month | 5 live · £528m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=11 |
| £1.4bn61 awards in 36m · last this month | 1 live · £21m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 6% above n=8 | |
| £1.2bn43 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 3 live · £171m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=9 | |
| £176m24 awards in 36m · last this month | 3 live · £21m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 19% below n=2 | |
BELL GROUP LTDLarge | £79m108 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 11 live · £28m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=30 |
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.
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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
- Open for tender
- 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
- 27 Jul 2026, 11:46 BST
- Last source update
- 27 Jul 2026, 11:46 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 5 Jan 2027
- Authority reference
CON0409- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-070720- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d423Find a Tender
- How it runs
A two-stage procedure consisting of:
- Stage 1 PSQ - utilising Common Assessment Standards and assessed Technical & Professional capability questions. This stage includes Conditions of Participation relating to exclusion grounds, financial standing and technical and professional capability. Tenderers must achieve a minimum Stage 1 assessed score of 50% and a maximum of the six highest-scoring Tenderers will be invited to participate in Stage 2.
- Stage 2 - Invitation to Tender. Tenderers shortlisted from Stage 1 will be invited to submit a final tender comprising quality and price submissions. Tenders will be evaluated on the basis of the Most Advantageous Tender using a 40% Quality / 60% Price evaluation methodology.
Tenderers must achieve a minimum quality score equivalent to 50% of the available quality marks (i.e. 20 out of 40 weighted quality marks) to be considered for award.
- Risks
Identified Project Risks include:
design development and coordination; brownfield site conditions, existing structures and demolition interfaces; unforeseen ground conditions and contamination; planning condition discharge and statutory approvals; utility diversions and new service connections; highway, drainage and infrastructure adoption processes; programme delivery and sectional completion requirements; supply chain capacity and labour availability; building safety, regulatory compliance and warranty requirements; quality management and defect prevention; testing, commissioning and handover obligations; and sustainability, biodiversity and social value delivery requirements.
Tenderers will be expected to demonstrate appropriate arrangements for identifying, managing, monitoring and mitigating project risks throughout the design, construction, commissioning, handover and defects periods.
Further details of identified project risks and dependencies are contained within the Tender Documents.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via portal- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Submit via e-Sourcing platform only, as described in the Tender Documents
Timeline
27 Jul 2026 → 15 Feb 2027 · 4 dates- Tender notice published85 days ago27 Jul 2026, 11:46 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 13 days2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 78 days5 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 118 days15 Feb 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published27 Jul 2026, 11:46 BSTUK4
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
- THE DESIGN PARTNERSHIP (ELY) LIMITEDProcuring entityEmployers Agent
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications All Tender documents are available from the web link. Participation requires registration on the E-Sourcing platform for any Tenderer who does not have an existing user account.
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender