Official UK procurement notice
Development Project - Short Furlong, Beer, Devon
Authority: LiveWest Homes Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDesign and Build of 30no dwellings at Short Furlong, Beer, Devon, EX12 3NL
LiveWest intends to tender a JCT Design and Build Contract 2024 through a Competitive Flexible Procedure (CFP). There will be an initial pre-qualification Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) issued to those who have indicated an Expression of Interest within the deadline. Those who qualify at PSQ stage will then be offered an Invitation to Tender (ITT). This process will be managed through the LiveWest ProContract procurement portal.
The contract will be in the standard form of JCT Design and Build 2024 subject to the LiveWest Schedule of Amendments, LiveWest Employers Requirements, Planning Permission, Building Regulations and NHBC Warranty.
The site to be constructed is covered by an open, pastoral field with no current buildings or hardstanding present. The site is bound by residential properties along Quarry Road to the north and further residential properties to the east. The main site entrance being located to the north of Short Furlong. The site topography slopes from approximately 75m above ordnance datum in the south towards 56m above ordnance datum in the north over a distance of approximately 56m.
Outline Planning Permission has been obtained from East Devon District Council under application reference 18/1957/MOUT for up to 30 new dwellings, with Reserved Matters now consented under application reference 22/1522/MRES.
Further information in relation to ground investigation, ecology, topographical survey, utilities and drainage commissioned by LiveWest will be issued as part of the ITT documentation.
A copy of the consented reserved matters planning layout is included overleaf for information and further information is available from the East Devon Council Planning Portal.
LiveWest intends to issue the Pre-Selection Questionnaire (PSQ), which constitutes Stage 1 of the Competitive Flexible Procedure, on 20 July 2026.
Suppliers interested in participating in this procurement are encouraged to register their interest by emailing [email protected]. While not mandatory, expressions of interest would be greatly appreciated and will assist LiveWest in understanding the anticipated level of market engagement.
The PSQ documentation will be issued through LiveWest's ProContract eTendering portal. Contractors wishing to participate should ensure they are registered on the portal in advance to access the procurement documents and receive any related communications.
CPV: Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How LiveWest Homes Limited buys Building construction work (CPV 4521), and who usually turns up
LiveWest Homes Limited’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.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
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 South West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South West 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 72 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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% / 25%
2–328% / 28%
4–628% / 25%
7+44% / 22%
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 estimate69% / 37%
Within ±2%15% / 21%
Above estimate15% / 42%
Assess each lot i
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.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
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 4521Estimate not published
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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. The bar shows 32 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid25%
2–328%
4–625%
7+22%
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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.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
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.
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), 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.
- 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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 2 Jul 2026, 09:13 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Jul 2026, 09:13 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-062029- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c1ebFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 Jul 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published111 days ago2 Jul 2026, 09:13 BST
- Market engagement67 days ago14 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
LiveWest intends to issue the Pre-Selection Questionnaire (PSQ), which constitutes Stage 1 of the Competitive Flexible Procedure, on 20 July 2026.
Suppliers interested in participating in this procurement are encouraged to register their interest by emailing [email protected]. While not mandatory, expressions of interest would be greatly appreciated and will assist LiveWest in understanding the anticipated level of market engagement.
The PSQ documentation will be issued through LiveWest's ProContract eTendering portal. Contractors wishing to participate should ensure they are registered on the portal in advance to access the procurement documents and receive any related communications.
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 131 days1 Mar 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Jul 2026, 09:13 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
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