Official UK procurement notice
Homes England - Moorfoot Phase 1, Sheffield Development Partner
Authority: Homes England (the name adopted by the Homes and Communities Agency) (Public body)·On behalf of: CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD DEBENHAM TIE LEUNG LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Moorfoot Catalyst site is one of the identified priority areas which is situated in a distinctive gateway location into the city centre, inside the ring road (St Mary's Gate) and to the south of The Moor and Fitzwilliam Gate, bookending Sheffield's primary retail core. The area has been identified by Sheffield City Council (SCC) and Homes England for a major residential-led mixed use regeneration project.
The scope of the proposed procurement opportunity includes the former Wickes (Plot 1) and the Moorfoot building, associated public realm and Moor Retail (Plot 2) as part of a first phase of development (‘Phase 1’).
Homes England wishes to reserve the option to extend the procurement to include further plots within the Catalyst Site yet to be assembled.
This notice references an estimated value of £300m (exclusive of VAT) this is deemed to be the higher end of the estimated Gross Development Value (GDV) of Phase 1 at this stage. This value is an indicative GDV and is subject to change. As no VAT treatment has been established both inclusive and exclusive VAT figures are the same.
Any dates provided within this PME notice are estimates only and are subject to change.
Please note, this procurement will be led by Homes England and SCC will be consulted throughout the process.
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 Homes England (the name adopted by the Homes and Communities Agency) buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up
Homes England (the name adopted by the Homes and Communities Agency)’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Construction work (CPV 45) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 53% against 34%, n=40.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 35 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.
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.
1 bid20% / 16%
2–320% / 21%
4–620% / 26%
7+40% / 37%
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 estimate63% / 42%
Within ±2%0% / 30%
Above estimate38% / 28%
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 45Published estimate£300m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 45. The comparison uses that group.
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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 254 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–321%
4–626%
7+37%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| DIGBETH LOC STUDIOS LIMITEDEarlier contract | Homes England - Fazeley Street, Warwick Bar, Digbeth, Birmingham - Development Partnerstarted Jan 2027 | — | £35m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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
- 19 May 2026, 14:48 BST
- Last source update
- 19 May 2026, 14:48 BST
- Authority reference
DN814711- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-045798- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069c08Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
19 May 2026 → 1 Oct 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published159 days ago19 May 2026, 14:48 BST
- Market engagement128 days ago19 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
The purpose of this notice is to make available a pre-market consultation questionnaire to understand the level of interest within the market for this procurement. Interested parties are invited to review the Pre-Market Engagement documents and questionnaire which are available via our e-Tendering system, Pro-Contract here:
procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗
If not already registered, candidates should register on the Homes England eTendering system at procontract.due-north.com/Login ↗
The questionnaire does not form part of a formal procurement process and Homes England reserves the right to decide whether to proceed with any tendering procedures in relation to the project.
Responses to this Pre-Market Engagement exercise will not be evaluated and will not be assessed or reviewed in any subsequent procurement or tender exercise.
Potential bidders who have not participated in this exercise, or whose participation has been limited (e.g. who have submitted a partially completed questionnaire) will not be disadvantaged in any way in any subsequent procurement or tender exercise.
The deadline for your completed questionnaire is 1pm on Friday 19th June 2026.
Interested parties are invited to submit their questionnaire responses either via Pro-Contract or by email to [email protected].
You do not need to submit the questionnaire via both routes. All responses submitted by email will be reviewed in the same way and at the same time as responses submitted via ProContract. The purposes of providing two submission routes is to allow ease of submission to interested parties.
All information provided is to be relied upon for the PME stage only and is subject to change prior to the Tender being issued.
It is currently proposed that the tender notice will be issued in August 2026, however, this date is subject to change. If this date is amended we will contact all parties that submit a PME response to let them know. If the deadline for this PME has already passed, you may still submit an email to the above address to be added to the mailing list for this opportunity.
- Tender notice expected85 days ago1 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 340 days1 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published19 May 2026, 14:48 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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD DEBENHAM TIE LEUNG LIMITEDProcuring entitySupporting Homes England with the execution of this procurement and contract
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