Official UK procurement notice
Design element for the new development of Florence Park Sea Cadet and Community Centre, Chichester
Authority: Chichester District Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe provision of a professional services design team for design services to develop the new Florence Park Sea Cadet and Community Centre. The work required is as per the following:
a) Support the Council with the design, planning and structural designs following the feedback from pre-application advice.
b) This invite to tender represents all work required for the development to progress through RIBA stages 3-4. The final stage RIBA Stages 5-6 will be dependent on external funding applications.
c) With the above exception for the external works, where the appointed professional services design team will be required to undertake RIBA stages 3 onwards, for all other aspects of the work they will be required to provide the professional services to undertake all the relevant tasks through the RIBA stages, including surveys, technical studies, business planning and the design of a practical and economically viable solutions through to contract administration.
CPV: Architectural and related services · Construction-related services · Engineering services · Landscape architectural services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£415,000
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 (3)
- Quality: See Tender Pack (Part A document) for full details
- Price: See Tender Pack (Part A document) for full details
- Social Value: See Tender Pack (Part A document) for full details
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- 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
- 22 May 2026, 13:57 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Aug 2026, 16:28 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 13 Jul 2026
- Authority reference
001-04/26- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047917- Latest notice
- Contract award notice (UK6)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a150Find a Tender- Contract terms summary
Payments will be on completion of milestones (and agreed completion of work) set against RIBA stages.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 26 Jun 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 12 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Tenders to be emails to:
In line with the tender submission deadlines (see ITT-Part A).
Timeline
22 May 2026 → 24 Aug 2026 · 8 dates- Tender notice published152 days ago22 May 2026, 13:57 BST
- Clarification questions by131 days ago12 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline117 days ago26 Jun 2026, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by100 days ago13 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts92 days ago22 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
- Assessment summaries sent71 days ago12 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
- Latest notice published70 days ago12 Aug 2026, 16:28 BST
- Standstill ends58 days ago24 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
Notice history
6 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 May 2026- Tender notice published22 May 2026, 13:57 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published9 Jun 2026, 11:08 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published18 Jun 2026, 19:23 BSTUK4
- Contract award notice published12 Aug 2026, 16:28 BSTUK6
- Status changed to complete12 Aug 2026, 16:28 BST
- Contract signature expected30 Sept 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Published amendments (2)
Price schedule dated 09.06.2026 version 2 added Clarification log version 0.2 added
Clarification log 0.3 added along with Schedule 1_Price_version 0.3_16.06.2026
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2026-05: 1 release · 22 May 2026
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams & Sutherland LimitedSME1 Oct 2026 – 31 Dec 2026 · up to 1 Mar 2027Extensions: Extensions able to be applied subject to funding, regulatory approvals and quality of service delivery. · Options: Aligned and related services to the nature of the tender. | £326,277 | 12 Aug 2026standstill to 24 Aug 2026 | Standstill |
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16final-stage tenders | 16 | 0 | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Adams & SutherlandAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (18)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications Appendix 2(a) - RIBA Stages Summary
- Bidding documents and specifications Appendix 2(b) - Core Design Team_(Roles-Resp) Final
- Bidding documents and specifications Appendix 3 - Key Contract Conditions_Final
- Bidding documents and specifications Appendix 4-2553-OPDS-Florence Park-Pre-Planning-Doc (Outline planning design statement)
- Bidding documents and specifications Appendix 5 - Preliminary_Enquiry_Letter_redacted (1)
- Bidding documents and specifications Clarification Log_v0.1 Clarifications will be published against the Contract Notice on Find a Tender. If interested in tendering for this project please ensure you add a "watch this notice" for alerts as from time to time additional information or clarifications may be published …
- Bidding documents and specifications Clarification Log_v0.2 Clarifications will be published against the Contract Notice on Find a Tender. If interested in tendering for this project please ensure you add a "watch this notice" for alerts as from time to time additional information or clarifications may be published …
- Bidding documents and specifications NEW ADDED 9 June 2026. Schedule 1_Price_verrsion 0.2_09.06.2026 Please use this version in submitting a tender.
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- Bidding documents and specifications CLARIFICATION LOG 0.3 - Added 18.06.2026 Clarifications will be published against the Contract Notice on Find a Tender. If interested in tendering for this project please ensure you add a "watch this notice" for alerts as from time to time additional information or clarifications…
- Bidding documents and specifications NEW - Added 18.06.2026 Schedule 1_Price_version 0.3_16.06.2026 Please use this version in submitting a tender.
- Bidding documents and specifications Schedule 1_Price (to be submitted as part of tender)
- Bidding documents and specifications Above Threshold-ITT-Part A-Open Instruction_Final (to be read first)
- Bidding documents and specifications Above Threshold-ITT-Part B-Open Response_Final (to be submitted as part of supplier response).
- Bidding documents and specifications Appendix 1 - Design brief - Final
Notices published for this procedure
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