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Westborough & Park Barn - Architect Services

Buyer: Guildford Borough Council →

BuyerGuildford Borough Council
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published31 Oct 2025

What is being bought

Guildford Borough Council is seeking an Architect and Lead Consultant to support the Westborough & Park Barn Better Homes Programme - a council-led initiative to develop a long-term strategy for improving housing quality, sustainability, and community facilities across two adjacent estates. The strategy will be shaped through meaningful community engagement to establish a shared vision and delivery approach, potentially leading to future regeneration phases including home upgrades, redevelopment, and public realm improvements. The appointed consultant will lead design and technical inputs through RIBA Stages 0-2, working in close collaboration with the Council, the appointed Engagement Consultant, and other specialists. Stage 0 will focus on high-level feasibility testing and translating community input into design objectives and a clear brief for later stages. Stages 1-2 will develop these options into an outline masterplan or equivalent strategic framework, supported by inputs from subconsultants (e.g. engineering, cost, sustainability) and ongoing community engagement. As Lead Consultant, the architect will coordinate the wider design team, ensure technical integration across disciplines, and embed engagement outcomes into a coherent, holistic, high-quality and deliverable design strategy

Delivery location

UKK, GB

Categories

Construction consultancy services 71530000Other community, social and personal services 98000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2027
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Construction consultancy services, Other community, social and personal servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 71. The category anchor is Construction consultancy services (71530000); 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 713,3793 median · 31.7 average (853 of 3,379 with a bid count)3.7 average (948 of 3,379 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer7Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKK2421 median · 25.9 average (58 of 242 with a bid count)4.2 average (63 of 242 with named award suppliers)Not 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
Engagement Session Details: Format: In-person session with an option to attend online Date: To be confirmed Location: Guildford Borough Council Offices or alternative location TBC if required. Briefing Pack: A briefing pack will be issued to all registered attendees prior to the session Suppliers interested in attending are invited to submit an expression of interest by emailing procurement@guildford.gov.ukengagement13 Nov 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-05d7de
Latest release ID070045-2025
Latest release timestampFri Oct 31 2025 11:59:35 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanning
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
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
31 Oct 2025planning070045-2025

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)
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