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title: "New Car Ferry for Lake Windermere"
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# New Car Ferry for Lake Windermere

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/new-car-ferry-for-lake-windermere-ocds-h6vhtk-033fcb). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Cumbria County Council: "New Car Ferry for Lake Windermere". Published status: active. Published Value: £5,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 12 Aug 2022, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.the-chest.org.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Cumbria County Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/cumbria-county-council-GB-FTS-12)
- **Published Value:** £5,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 12 August 2022 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Ferry boats, Ships and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods
- **Delivery Location:** UKD1
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/new-car-ferry-for-lake-windermere-ocds-h6vhtk-033fcb#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-033fcb`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/new-car-ferry-for-lake-windermere-ocds-h6vhtk-033fcb#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [the-chest.org.uk](/out?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-chest.org.uk%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/new-car-ferry-for-lake-windermere-ocds-h6vhtk-033fcb#participate

## Description
CCC are seeking to award a tender for the design, build, launch, installation, commissioning,
and acceptance of the new ferry, and associated elements. The land-locked nature of Lake
Windermere introduces several requirements and constraints specific to the new ferry. The
new ferry is to have increased car capacity, increased operating capability, improved
passenger facilities and is to be fully electrically powered from onboard batteries. The new
ferry is to be a cable ferry; propelled by pulling herself along a pair of steel wire cables
installed between the two slipways. The east slipway is located at Ferry Nab, Bowness-on-
Windermere and the west slipway at Far Sawrey and the ferry links the two parts of the
B5285 on either side of Lake Windermere. See Tender documents for further information.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 34512000
- **Delivery regions:** UKD

- **Estimated Value:** £5,000,000
- **Description:** CCC are seeking to award a tender for the design, build, launch, installation, commissioning, and acceptance of the new ferry, and associated elements.  The land-locked nature of Lake Windermere introduces several requirements and constraints specifi...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F025416-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-09-09T15:38:59.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T20:23:53.896Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-033fcb