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title: "Soft Market Testing: Strategic Investment and Delivery Partner for Low Carbon Infrastructure in Oldham Borough"
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# Soft Market Testing: Strategic Investment and Delivery Partner for Low Carbon Infrastructure in Oldham Borough

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/soft-market-testing-strategic-investment-and-delivery-partner-for-low-carbon-infrastructur-ocds-h6vhtk-02ea01). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** The Oldham Green New Deal Strategy sets out the Council’s approach to tackling carbon emissions from the Council’s own estate and the borough as a whole, whilst building Oldham’s green economic sector and improving the local environment. It was the UK’s first local authority Green New Deal Strategy and sets out Oldham’s ambition to be a leading Council in Greater Manchester, nationally and internationally on the green agenda.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Oldham Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/oldham-council-ons-e08000004)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** works
- **Classifications (CPV):** Construction work, Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy
- **Delivery Location:** UKD
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02ea01`

## 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/soft-market-testing-strategic-investment-and-delivery-partner-for-low-carbon-infrastructur-ocds-h6vhtk-02ea01#tl-md)

## Description
The Oldham Green New Deal Strategy sets out the Council’s approach to tackling carbon emissions from the Council’s own estate and the borough as a whole, whilst building Oldham’s green economic sector and improving the local environment. It was the UK’s first local authority Green New Deal Strategy and sets out Oldham’s ambition to be a leading Council in Greater Manchester, nationally and internationally on the green agenda.
The Council sees a role for a strategic partnership with a private sector infrastructure provider in delivering against the Green New Deal ambition and seeks to engage with suppliers to explore what such a partnership could look like. The following document sets out the Council’s initial thoughts and invites applicants to feed back on these initial ideas and explore them further. There will be an opportunity for a round table discussion with the Council to establish the potential scope of a strategic partnership contractual arrangement.
This is a significant opportunity for a well-resourced, innovative, and ambitious private sector infrastructure provider to work with one of the UK’s most ambitious local authorities when it comes to the transformational change of strategic energy infrastructure and systems to achieve Net Zero outcomes whilst securing all the benefits of the low carbon transition for local residents and businesses.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 09000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKD

- **Description:** Soft Market Test Only:
•	To share information in relation to this potential opportunity
•	To identify innovative and leading-edge solutions
•	To gain feedback on what is realistically deliverable under the proposed approach
•	To gain feedback on deli...

- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F025236-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-10-08T14:15:34.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-04T15:55:05.720Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02ea01