Official UK procurement notice
WP4139 - Former Gasholders Site Redevelopment
Authority: Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWalsall Council (the "Council") is the freeholder of the site known as the Former Gasholders Site, Darlaston Road, Walsall (the "Site") which it wishes to develop.
The Council have assembled and acquired the whole site; comprised of the former National Grid Gasholders site plus adjoining land to the south. The project will involve the transformation of this circa 9-hectare brownfield site into a modern industrial estate suitable for logistics, light manufacturing, and warehousing.
The site is a strategic delivery priority for the Council as part of the Black Country Enterprise Zone and Walsall Growth Zone and is allocated as 'Potential High-Quality Industry' in the Walsall Site Allocation Document (SAD). The site is a significant opportunity based on its connectivity being adjacent to the M6 and other upcoming industrial developments in proximity.
The proposed redevelopment will assist in generating new employment, training, and business opportunities in Walsall as part of the M6 Junction 10 employment area.
The project scope encompasses all activities required to enable the successful redevelopment of the site for industrial use, including:
- Site Remediation and Preparation to address any contamination and Earthworks to prepare the ground for construction, including site clearance, grading, and levelling.
- Mitigation of On-Site Constraints such as ecology, flood risk, and utilities diversion to facilitate development.
- Creation of a site access that is suitable for future traffic movements associated with the site.
- Installation of all necessary utilities and site-wide infrastructure.
Construction of four high-quality industrial units suitable for B2 (General Industrial) or B8 (Storage and Distribution) use, each ranging from 30,000 to 99,999 sq. ft GIA including associated external works.
The Council intends to publish a Tender Notice in April 2027 to commence a competitive tendering process under the Procurement Act 2023 (the "Act") and given the value of this opportunity is publishing this notice to notify the market of this intention in accordance with s93 of the Act.
The competitive tendering process to be conducted by the Council will be informed by the preliminary market engagement previously undertaken by the Council via the publication of a Preliminary Market Engagement Notice in November 2025 (2025/S 000-071275).
The Tender Notice and associated tender documents made available to the market in the near future will provide further details on the scope and nature of the opportunity along with information on the procurement process to be conducted by the Council.
Further details on the contract structure and competitive tendering process will be made available when the Council formally commences the procurement.
To support the viability of the scheme, the Council intends to make available grant funding to the successful supplier and further details on this will be provided when a procurement process is formally commenced by the Council.
CPV: Construction work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council’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: Construction work (CPV 45) →
How the contest usually goes
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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 West Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.
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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 63 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.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid25% / 18%
2–317% / 33%
4–613% / 19%
7+46% / 31%
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 estimate19% / 40%
Within ±2%67% / 34%
Above estimate14% / 26%
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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.
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 #1Published estimate£62m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 129 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–333%
4–619%
7+31%
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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.
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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.
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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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Concession
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 24 Oct 2025, 09:31 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Oct 2026, 16:25 BST
- Authority reference
WP4139- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-099656- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
24 Oct 2025 → 16 Jun 2028 · 5 dates- Planning notice published362 days ago24 Oct 2025, 09:31 BST
- Market engagement324 days ago1 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
Further to the Councils pipeline notice issued on 24th October 2025, the Council now wish to begin a formal primary market engagement process with interested Remediation Contractors and Developers.
Interested remediation contractors/developers must request a Confidentially Agreement from [email protected]
Once the signed Confidentially Agreement has been received the Council will issue the formal PME pack of information via the Councils In-Tend Portal.
A formal site visit will be held on Thursday 20th November 2025. Interested remediation contractors/developers must confirm their request to attend by 1pm on Monday 17th November 2025 via the In-Tend portal stating their preferred timeslot.
Developers:
10am - 11am
11am - 12
Remediation Contractors:
1pm - 1.45pm
1.45pm - 2.30pm
Interested contractors/developers are requested to complete the relevant PME questionnaire and return it via the In-Tend portal by 1pm on Monday 1st December 2025.
- Latest notice publishedearlier today21 Oct 2026, 16:25 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 191 days30 Apr 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts16 Jun 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Oct 2025- Pipeline notice published24 Oct 2025, 09:31 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Nov 2025, 13:49 GMTUK2
- Pipeline notice published21 Oct 2026, 16:25 BSTUK1
- Published value updated to £62,000,00021 Oct 2026, 16:25 BSTwas £40,000,000
Published amendments (1)
The contract duration and value has increased because a Pre-Construction Service Agreement stage is being included.
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 (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender