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# Project Texas

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/project-texas-ocds-h6vhtk-04d52f). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Loughborough University: "Project Texas". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Loughborough University](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/loughborough-university-urn-133834)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Buying and selling of real estate, Development of non-residential real estate, Real estate services
- **Delivery Location:** UKF2
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £4,000,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04d52f`

## 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/project-texas-ocds-h6vhtk-04d52f#tl-md)

## Description
The University proposes entering into an agreement for lease with Stoford Loughborough Limited (“Stoford”) that will, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions precedent, result in the grant of a long lease by the University of a site owned by the University (“the site”) to a lessee nominated by Stoford (“the lessee”). Stoford proposes to commission the construction by a building contractor for the lessee of a new advanced manufacturing facility on the site, along with site specific infrastructure, which the lessee will sub-lease to an occupier (“the sub-lessee”). The building contractor will also provide certain infrastructure works on land owned by the University adjacent to the site, comprising a new roundabout, spine road and drainage, which will be owned by the University.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** Not published
- **CPV codes:** 70112000, 70120000
- **Delivery regions:** UKF

- **Description:** The University is to enter into an agreement for lease with Stoford Loughborough Limited (“Stoford”) in respect of land located at the University’s Science and Enterprise Park. The agreement for lease provides for the grant of a 150-year lease to the...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 002093-2025-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Stoford Loughborough Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-135754`
  - Value: £4,000,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 002093-2025-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £4,000,000
  - Signed Date: 20/01/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F002093-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-01-21T19:05:04.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T08:36:00.562Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04d52f