Official UK procurement notice
Oakdale Road and Chisenhale Street Solar Farm's
Authority: Merseytravel (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe contracting authority intends to procure a suitably qualified contractor (or consortium) to deliver the design, build, and installation of two solar photovoltaic (PV) installations located at Oakdale Road Solar Farm and Chisenhale Street Solar Farm.
The project forms part of the authority's wider strategy to reduce carbon emissions, improve energy resilience, and increase the proportion of locally generated renewable energy across its estate.
The appointed supplier will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of both sites, including design development, procurement of equipment, construction, installation, testing, and commissioning. The scope of services is expected to include, but not be limited to:
Site Assessment and Surveys: Undertake detailed site investigations, including topographical, geotechnical, and electrical assessments, to inform design and delivery.
Design and Engineering: Development of detailed designs for solar PV arrays, mounting systems, inverters, grid connection infrastructure, and associated electrical systems, ensuring compliance with relevant UK standards and regulations.
Planning and Consents: Support or manage any required planning permissions, permits, and stakeholder engagement activities.
Procurement and Supply Chain Management: Supply of all plant, equipment, and materials, including PV panels, inverters, cabling, and mounting structures.
Construction and Installation: Full installation of solar PV systems, including civil works, electrical installation, and integration with existing infrastructure.
Grid Connection and Integration: Coordination with Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) and implementation of grid connection requirements, including metering and export arrangements.
Testing and Commissioning: Verification of system performance, safety testing, and commissioning to ensure operational readiness.
Operation and Maintenance Strategy: Provision of initial maintenance plans, warranties, and performance monitoring arrangements.
Health, Safety, and Environmental Management: Delivery in accordance with all relevant legislation, with particular emphasis on safe construction practices and environmental protection.
The contractor will be expected to deliver both sites efficiently, potentially in parallel, while minimising disruption to surrounding areas and ensuring programme certainty.
This procurement seeks organisations with demonstrable experience in renewable energy infrastructure, particularly solar PV projects of comparable scale and complexity. The outputs will contribute to the authority's sustainability objectives and long-term energy cost savings.
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 Merseytravel buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up
Merseytravel’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: Construction work (CPV 45) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North West England. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 100% against 44%, n=9.
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Half of these awards were announced within 93 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid0% / 10%
2–310% / 27%
4–620% / 29%
7+70% / 34%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate67% / 42%
Within ±2%17% / 28%
Above estimate17% / 29%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1Published estimate£4.4m
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1 bid10%
2–327%
4–629%
7+34%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Openview Security Solutions LimitedEarlier contract | CCTV at Chisenhale Streetstarted Nov 2025 | — | £300k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award under framework
- 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
- 1 May 2026, 14:11 BST
- Last source update
- 1 May 2026, 14:11 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-040570- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069069Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
1 May 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 2 dates- Planning notice published174 days ago1 May 2026, 14:11 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 71 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Pipeline notice published1 May 2026, 14:11 BSTUK1
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender