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Published 26 Aug 2026, 10:53 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Hastings Road Development · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Lancaster City Council (Local council)

WorksBelow threshold - open competitionBelow threshold
Sectors: Construction & Civil Engineering (45) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Published estimate£1,020,000≈ £1.4m / year · £1,020,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 23 Oct 202612:00 BST · 3d 4h left
Contract term 9 moends 31 Dec 2027 · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The construction of four new Council houses by redevelopment of the existing garage site.

Works shall comprise demolition of the existing garages, site preparation, and construction of 2 cottage style apartments and 2 terraced houses using ‘Etopia’ MMC panels. The Construction is characterised by the site constraints, MMC, quality of the design and energy efficiency of the construction and social value.

CPV: Building construction work · Construction work for houses · Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses · Demolition work · Multi-dwelling buildings construction work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1 9 moPublished value£1,020,000

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids are scored

Lot awarding rule: Below threshold evaluation

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £2,707,226 (twice the annual value).

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 Lancaster City Council buys Building construction work (CPV 4521), and who usually turns up

Lancaster City 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: Building construction work (CPV 4521) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerLancaster City Council · division 45
The marketBuilding construction work (CPV 4521) · North West England (authority’s region)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 of 7 known-size awards · market: CPV 4521 · North West England (authority’s region), n=97
86%76%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 North West England (authority’s region).

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: CPV 4521 · North West England (authority’s region), n=156
—42%

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in North West England.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 4521 · North West England (authority’s region), n=34
—35 days

Half of these awards were announced within 35 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 8 of 14 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4521 · North West England (authority’s region), n=169
57%41%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer12 lots with bid counts · all categories
17% had one bid
The market33 lots with bid counts · CPV 4521 · North West England (authority’s region)
12% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid17% / 12%
Buyer: 2 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
2–342% / 36%
Buyer: 5 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 12 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
4–60% / 30%
Buyer: 0 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
7+42% / 21%
Buyer: 5 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 33 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer3 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 45 · too few to chart
The market29 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4521 · North West England (authority’s region)
45% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate45%
Market: 13 of 29 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%17%
Market: 5 of 29 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate38%
Market: 11 of 29 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 45219 monthsPublished estimate£1.0m
Expected competition
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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.

5expected bids5% single-bid risk
forecast from 38 past contests
Forecast chances for this lot
1 bid5%
Chance this lot gets 1 bid: 5%. This is a forecast.
2–345%
Chance this lot gets 2–3: 45%. This is a forecast.
4–67%
Chance this lot gets 4–6: 7%. This is a forecast.
7+42%
Chance this lot gets 7+: 42%. This is a forecast.
Commercial price forecast
i

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 14 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.

£1.0m1.2% below estimate
14 comparable awards
Forecast compared with the buyer’s estimate
Middle 50%£958k–£1.1m
Half of likely prices fall between £957,523 and £1,072,192.
Estimate£1.0m
The buyer published an estimate of £1,020,000 for this lot.
A 0% chance the award lands exactly on the estimate.

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.

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.

SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
7 panel places
£176m24 awards in 36m · last this month3 live · £21m
i

Public 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
1 panel places
£81m6 awards in 36m · last 5 months ago1 live · £11m
i

Public 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=1
1 panel places
£21m2 awards in 36m · last 9 months ago1 live · £12m
i

Public 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.

7% above n=2
1 panel places
£7.2m3 awards in 36m · last 3 months agoNone on file42% below n=1
£14m1 awards in 36m · last 7 months agoNone on file50% below n=1
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
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Open for tender
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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
26 Aug 2026, 10:53 BST
Last source update
26 Aug 2026, 10:53 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-081136
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Building construction workConstruction work for housesConstruction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual housesDemolition workMulti-dwelling buildings construction work
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ec25 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via ProContract (Due North)
Submission portal named on this notice: ProContract (Due North) · Who buys & how to bid on ProContract
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowed
Access & registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
Clarification deadline
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Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

In order to provide unrestricted, full, direct and free of charge access to the tender documents the Authority is providing the documents in the opportunities area of the ProContract North eTendering portal at Welcome to ProContract procontract.due-north.com/Home/About ↗

In order to view the documents and submit a response applicants must be registered as suppliers on ProContract. Applicants should then express an interest in the opportunity and download the word documents for completion and submission.

Published estimate £1,020,000 excludes VAT (£1,020,000 including VAT).

Timeline

26 Aug 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Tender notice published55 days ago
    26 Aug 2026, 10:53 BST
  2. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  3. Submission deadlinein 3 days
    23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
  4. Contract startsin 163 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    26 Aug 2026, 10:53 BST
    UK4

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

Lancaster City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PTQG-8236-WVNZ Lancaster Town Hall, Dalton Square, Lancaster, North West, LA1 1PJContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender