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# Skerton School and Mainway Regeneration - Preliminary Market Engagement

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/skerton-school-and-mainway-regeneration-preliminary-market-engagement-ocds-h6vhtk-05d918). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Lancaster City Council: "Skerton School and Mainway Regeneration - Preliminary Market Engagement". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Lancaster City Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/lancaster-city-council-ons-e07000121)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** works
- **Classifications (CPV):** Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services, Construction work, Financial and insurance services, Real estate services
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/skerton-school-and-mainway-regeneration-preliminary-market-engagement-ocds-h6vhtk-05d918#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05d918`

## 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/skerton-school-and-mainway-regeneration-preliminary-market-engagement-ocds-h6vhtk-05d918#tl-md)

## Description
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

## Lots (1)
### Lot 0: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `0`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 45000000, 66000000, 70000000, 71000000

- **Contract Period:** 31/03/2027 to 31/03/2029

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F070500-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-11-03T14:34:53.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-20T04:17:29.109Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05d918