Official UK procurement notice
Management of Charnwood Borough Council Leisure Centres
Authority: Charnwood Borough Council (Local council)·On behalf of: Trafford Council
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Authority is planning to undertake a Tender for the "Management of Charnwood Borough Council Leisure Centres" The Scope of the service includes Loughborough Leisure Centre, Soar Valley leisure Centre and South Charnwood Leisure Centre. The Services Specification will be based on the Sport England template, made bespoke to this project. The contract will be for a period of 7 years with an optional extension for a further 5 years
CPV: Sports facilities operation services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
Competition for Sports facilities operation services (CPV 9261), and who usually turns up
Charnwood Borough Council has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. No delivery region is published, so no market column stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Sports facilities operation services (CPV 9261) →
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Lot #1CPV 9261Published estimate£44m
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1 bid13%
2–363%
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- 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
- 6 Feb 2026, 14:49 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Feb 2026, 14:49 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-011029- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-064a48Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
6 Feb 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published258 days ago6 Feb 2026, 14:49 GMT
- Market engagement243 days ago20 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
To test operators approach to key areas of risk which will then inform the contract and specification
- Tender notice expected219 days ago16 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 161 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Feb 2026, 14:49 GMTUK2
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
- Trafford CouncilProcess contact pointProcuring entityFacilitating the procurement process
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