Official UK procurement notice
Manchester Piccadilly Strategic Regeneration Framework (SRF) Update
Authority: Manchester City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Manchester Piccadilly area (the 'study area') is of national strategic significance, serving as a major gateway to Manchester city centre and the Greater Manchester city region and beyond. Anchored by Piccadilly Station, the district is set to evolve into a world-class, highly productive, and connected destination.
Manchester Piccadilly station serves as a central transport hub for the city, and is at the centre of the planned Northern Powerhouse Rail ('NPR') network. Manchester City Council ('the Council') strongly believes that the optimal solution for the proposed NPR station at Manchester Piccadilly is for an underground through station, which would unlock the full potential of the study area, maximising transport connectivity and the long-term economic and social benefits of investment.
The Council is seeking to appoint a consultancy team to provide a SRF for the study area (building upon the previous Manchester Piccadilly SRF), based around the anticipated growth opportunity and connectivity benefits provided by the NPR and other investment proposals, aligned with the Council's ambitions and policies. This work should review, and incorporate existing, and update new regeneration areas within the study area.
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While the study will concentrate on the 'Piccadilly Central' and the 'Ardwick' areas, a key aspect of this commission will be to integrate and harmonise the outputs of the Manchester Piccadilly SRF with those of the adjacent and related SRFs, to produce a coherent, comprehensive and integrated strategy, which can maximise economic and social benefits.
Further information is provided in the Specification.
This Procurement is being conducted in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 and Procurement Regulations 2024, using the Open Tender Procedure. The documentation published with this opportunity describes how the procurement will be conducted, including details of the associated procurement timetable and award criteria and how to respond to this opportunity.
Suppliers are strongly encouraged to read the documentation including the appendices and all other documentation published as part of this Invitation to Tender, as failure to comply with the information in the documentation may result in exclusion from the Procurement and/or the rejection of any submission.
Manchester City Council invites tenders for the provision of the Services, from organisations with relevant experience and technical ability to demonstrate sufficient capacity for providing the Services.
It is intended for the contract to commence 18 January 2027.
The estimated total value of the opportunity is £250,000 (including Work Packages 1-4) over the total contract period although Suppliers should note that this is only an estimate to give Suppliers an idea of the potential scale of the opportunity.
Bidders should ensure that their proposed team collectively possesses all relevant skills, qualifications, experience and resources necessary to deliver an adoptable Strategic Regeneration Framework, in line with the Specification. Where all required expertise is not held within a single organisation, bidders may wish to consider forming appropriate consortium, joint venture, or subcontracting arrangements.
Where a consortium, joint venture, or subcontracting arrangement is proposed, bidders should clearly identify the proposed structure, the role and responsibilities of each organisation, and how the combined team will provide the requisite expertise and capacity to successfully deliver the contract.
It is envisaged that the contract will be awarded to one (1) lead provider or consortium.
CPV: Construction consultancy services · Urban planning and landscape architectural services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£250,000
- Value
- £250,000 exc. VAT · £300,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- 6 month extension option
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Manchester City Council buys Construction consultancy services (CPV 7153) — and who usually turns up
Manchester City Council’s own published record, next to the North West England market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Construction consultancy services (CPV 7153) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested frameworks and DPS only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Manchester City Council
framework/DPS notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 7153 · 5 in division 71 · 43 in all categories (1 without competition · 2 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 71), last 36 months: 3 lots. All 3 lots are from older notices, which count bids received.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 71), last 36 months: 3 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 36 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 6 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 141 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 71), last 36 months: 5 notices.
North West England · Construction consultancy services (CPV 7153)
framework/DPS notices delivered in North West England in 36 months: 31 in CPV 7153 (27 competed, 4 route not published) · 280 in division 71 (225 competed, 51 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7153), last 36 months: 33 lots. 14 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 2) and 19 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7153), last 36 months: 33 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this region in this sector: not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7153), last 36 months: 3 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7153), last 36 months: 30 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7153), last 36 months: 16 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on this buyer’s own usual movement over 36 lots (all categories), applied to the £250,000 estimate on this notice.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Who you are likely to meet i
Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
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Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
Suppliers on this authority’s earlier similar contracts, then suppliers with a matching track record — from published award history, not a bid list
Suppliers with a similar track record — and how they price i
Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
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Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
| Supplier | Evidence | Last award | Their award vs estimate | Relevance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHAPTER WBL LIMITED Large | 2 class wins | this month | no comparable pairs | 57% |
| Ove Arup & Partners Ltd Large | 17 class wins · 3 lots for this buyer | this month | 4% below n=4 | 51% |
| Mace Consult Limited Large | 3 class wins · 1 lots for this buyer | this month | no comparable pairs | 47% |
| Mace Limited Large | 3 class wins | 4 months ago | 29% above n=2 | 46% |
| Jacobs UK Ltd Large | 5 class wins | this month | at estimate n=7 | 45% |
Matched by the nightly worker on class wins, buyer history, delivery geography, scale and notice text; relevance is a 0–100% heuristic score, not a probability of bidding. “Their award vs estimate” is that supplier’s median on its own comparable single-supplier wins, CPV 7153 first. Nobody here is known to be bidding.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 22 Sept 2026, 12:28 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Sept 2026, 12:28 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 11 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
P-1703- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0775f3Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via ProContract (Due North)- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Appointment period ends
- 21 Oct 2026, 11:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 9 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice published5 days ago18 Sept 2026, 20:02 BST
- Latest notice published1 day ago22 Sept 2026, 12:28 BST
- Clarification questions byin 16 days9 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsin 28 days · period end, not a bid countdown21 Oct 2026, 11:00 BST
- Award decision expected byin 80 days11 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 117 days18 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 18 Sept 2026- Tender notice published22 Sept 2026, 12:28 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published18 Sept 2026, 20:02 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender