Official UK procurement notice
Procurement for a Developer for Brimscombe Port, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Authority: Stroud District Council (Local council)·On behalf of: Gleeds Cost Management Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement description:Stroud District Council wishes to procure a developer partner to deliver its Brimscombe Port development. Brimscombe Port was at one time the largest inland port in the Country dating back to the 1780’s. Following the decline in canals the Port became redundant. The canal was in-filled after the Second World War and the site developed as an industrial estate during the 1960/70’s. Today the industrial estate has been demolished, ready for redevelopment , the Listed Port Mill and salt warehouse add to the site's spectacular setting
SDC is leading on the delivery of the redevelopment of Brimscombe Port in conjunction with Stroud Valleys Canal Company (SVCC) and Homes England (HE), to reinstate the canal and provide a mixed use residential led development on a ten-acre site. Please see Procurement documents for further details.
- Two-stage procedure: up to 6 candidates will be invited to tender.
- How the procedure runs: Invitation to participate in Dialogue, please see PSQ for detailed breakdown
- No preliminary market engagement: EOI was published July 26 for information only, system error notice not published.
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Construction work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£50,000,000
- Value
- £50,000,000 exc. VAT · £60,000,000 inc. VAT
- Second stage
- up to 6 candidates invited to tender
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).
Published sub-criteria (7)
- Development Outcomes — 35%
- Delivery Methodology — 5%
- Strategic Partner Structure Offer — 6%
- Deliverability and Risk — 27%
- Development Cost and Viability — 8%
- Social Value — 10%
- Sustainability Strategy — 9%
Published award criteria (7)
- Sustainability Strategy — Compliance with the Councils output specification, and their innovative solutions for sustainability
- Social Value — Social value commitments
- Development Outcomes — Quality of the outcomes to be delivered
- Delivery Methodology — Delivery Programme
- Deliverability and Risk — Commercial proposals and risk
- Strategic Partner Structure Offer — Strategic partnership arrangement
- Economic & financial standingMinimum company turnover - please see PSQ for full details
- Technical & professional abilityThere are technical conditions of participation - please see the PSQ for details.
- Condition of participationPlease see PSQ for details shortlisting
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Stroud District Council buys Construction work (CPV 45) — and who usually turns up
Stroud District Council’s own published record, next to the South West England 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) →
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 contracts 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.
Stroud District Council
contract notices in 36 months: 17 in division 45 · 22 in all categories (1 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 all categories, last 36 months: 3 lots. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 9) and 1 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).
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 all categories, 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 this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 5 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 this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 2 notices. Small sample.
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: 23 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 45), last 36 months: 17 notices.
South West England · Construction work (CPV 45)
contract notices delivered in South West England in 36 months: 1,412 in division 45 (1,054 competed, 257 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 industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 389 lots. 249 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 5) and 140 from older notices (bids received, middle 5).
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 industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 389 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 region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 271 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 region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 266 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 industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 337 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 industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 566 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 5 lots (division 45), applied to the £50,000,000 estimate on this notice.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
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
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Open for expressions of interest
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Oct 2026, 17:06 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 17:06 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 27 May 2027, 23:59 BST
- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07802dFind a Tender- Contract terms summary
- Standard payment terms
- How it runs
- Invitation to participate in Dialogue, please see PSQ for detailed breakdown
- Risks
- Please see procurement documents
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Expression of interest (EOI)
- 6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Tender submission deadline
- 6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 23 Oct 2026, 16:00 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
- Shortlist
- up to 6 candidates invited to tender
Timeline
6 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today2 Oct 2026, 17:06 BST
- Clarification questions byin 21 days23 Oct 2026, 16:00 BST
- Expressions of interest byin 35 days6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 35 days6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 237 days27 May 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 271 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
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
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published2 Oct 2026, 17:06 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- Gleeds Cost Management LimitedProcuring entityPreparation of Procurement Documents
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specificationsAccess: All documents are free and accessible via www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender