Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 18 Jun 2026, 16:28 BST

Official UK procurement notice

PAN3479 - Regent Road Development

Authority: Leicester City Council (Local council)

WorksAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£14,189,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 2 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 29 Mar 2028 · up to 29 Mar 2030 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Leicester City Council ('the Council') has a legal requirement to appoint a contractor for the demolition of existing buildings on site and the creation of a 42-unit residential development with associated landscaping works to create a courtyard area. Proposed funding will be 45% from Homes England and the remaining 55% from Leicester City Council. Planning has yet to be applied for; however, it will be in place prior to construction works commencing in April 2027. The tender will be issued at RIBA stage 3+. The client will not be novating the existing design team. The terms will be JCT Single Stage Design and Build with a schedule for pricing evaluation.

CPV: Building construction work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 1 yr
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 29 Mar 2028 (1 yr) · up to 29 Mar 2030 with extensions
Delivery: East Midlands
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Leicester City Council buys Building construction work (CPV 4521), and who usually turns up

Leicester City Council’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: Building construction work (CPV 4521) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerLeicester City Council · division 45
The marketBuilding construction work (CPV 4521) · East Midlands
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 21 of 25 known-size awards · market: CPV 4521 · East Midlands, n=115
84%80%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means registered in East Midlands.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 18 of 33 known-location awards · market: CPV 4521 · East Midlands, n=170
55%34%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 decided notices · market: CPV 4521 · East Midlands, n=37
57 days53 days

Half of these awards were announced within 57 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 9 of 30 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4521 · East Midlands, n=173
30%39%

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?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer20 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 45
0% had one bid
The market50 lots with bid counts · CPV 4521 · East Midlands
8% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 8%
Buyer: 0 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 50 lots with published bid counts.
2–320% / 18%
Buyer: 4 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 9 of 50 lots with published bid counts.
4–630% / 36%
Buyer: 6 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 18 of 50 lots with published bid counts.
7+50% / 38%
Buyer: 10 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 19 of 50 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer18 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 45
50% below estimate
The market49 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4521 · East Midlands
51% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate50% / 51%
Buyer: 9 of 18 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 25 of 49 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%33% / 22%
Buyer: 6 of 18 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 11 of 49 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate17% / 27%
Buyer: 3 of 18 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 13 of 49 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 452112 monthsPublished estimate£14m
Expected competition
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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 50 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet8% single-bid risk
Past bids on 50 similar lots
1 bid8%
4 of 50 similar past lots received 1 bid (8%).
2–318%
9 of 50 similar past lots received 2–3 (18%).
4–636%
18 of 50 similar past lots received 4–6 (36%).
7+38%
19 of 50 similar past lots received 7+ (38%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5.5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £14m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

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.

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
18 Jun 2026, 16:28 BST
Last source update
9 Jul 2026, 10:02 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-064510
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Building construction work
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF21)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b874 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

18 Jun 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published124 days ago
    18 Jun 2026, 16:28 BST
  2. Latest notice published103 days ago
    9 Jul 2026, 10:02 BST
  3. Market engagement94 days ago
    17 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    Leicester City Council ('the Council') would like to seek views and engagement from the market for the demolition of existing buildings on site and the creation of a 42-unit residential development with associated landscaping works to create a courtyard area. Proposed funding will be 45% from Homes England and the remaining 55% from Leicester City Council. Planning has yet to be applied for; however, it will be in place prior to construction works commencing in April 2027. The tender will be issued at RIBA stage 3+. The client will not be novating the existing design team. The terms will be JCT Single Stage Design and Build with schedule for pricing evaluation.

    The project will will be evaluated with weightings of Quality: 40% (Inc. 10% of Social Value) and Pricing: 60%.

    The proposed contract will be for a total duration of 3 years.

    At this stage, it is a Pre-Market Engagement only and Not A CALL FOR COMPETITION.

    Pre-Market Engagement questionnaire can be accessed in the link below:

    forms.cloud.microsoft/e/EFVEeUP4Y9 ↗

  4. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  5. Tender notice expectedin 14 days
    2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  6. Contract startsin 163 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 18 Jun 2026
  1. Pipeline notice published
    18 Jun 2026, 16:28 BST
    UK1
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    19 Jun 2026, 10:30 BST
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    9 Jul 2026, 10:02 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Engagement date has been extended by another week so it will end on 17/07/2026.

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

Leicester City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PXRT-5737-VBQD City Hall (4th Floor), Leicester, East Midlands, LE1 1FZContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure