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Skerton School and Mainway Regeneration - Preliminary Market Engagement

Buyer: Lancaster City Council →

BuyerLancaster City Council
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published3 Nov 2025

What is being bought

Lancaster City Council is launching this Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) to seek responses from developers and investors on potential partnership and investment structures to help shape and lead the delivery of two mayor housing schemes. The Council seeks partnership approaches that bring forward investment, delivery expertise, and innovative funding and risk-sharing solutions and bridge viability challenges in the early years of operation. This PME is designed to explore opportunities for partnership that will enable immediate delivery and bring forward the Council’s long-term regeneration respectively for: Skerton School is a planning-approved scheme for around 135 affordable and social homes. It is ready to proceed either as a stand-alone development or as the enabling first phase of the Mainway regeneration. The Council is seeking a partner to lead delivery of this scheme, providing the additionality and decant capacity needed to support a rolling programme of renewal at Mainway and to establish early delivery momentum. Mainway Estate Regeneration is a long-term regeneration and investment opportunity. The emerging masterplan envisions up to 400 new dwellings across a mixed tenure development, delivered through phased regeneration with the opportunities to incorporate our Council Housing building ambitions within wider partner-led regeneration and redevelopment of the estate. Together, Skerton and Mainway present an opportunity for partners lead delivery of a planning-ready scheme and the long-term investment in a transformational regeneration programme

Categories

Construction work 45000000Financial and insurance services 66000000Real estate services 70000000Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services 71000000

Lot details

Lot 0

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2027 to 31 Mar 2029

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
0Construction work, Financial and insurance services, Real estate services, Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 45. The category anchor is Construction work (45000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 458,4274 median · 25.3 average (1,738 of 8,427 with a bid count)3.6 average (1,917 of 8,427 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer18Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
Suppliers can engage with this pre market engagement by: 1. Going to https://procontract.due-north.com/opportunities 2.Select 'Lancaster City Council' from the Organisation list 3. Search for Project ref. DN795733 or title 'Skerton School and Mainway regeneration' 4. Select 'express interest in this opportunity.' 5 Download the Request for information pack and complete the provided question response form by the deadline date. The deadline for responses is 12:00 Friday December 2025engagement12 Dec 2025scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05d918
Latest release ID070500-2025
Latest release timestampMon Nov 03 2025 14:34:53 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanning
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryworks
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
3 Nov 2025planning070500-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
3 Nov 2025 · 070500-2025 · planning
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