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Woodland Cottages - Lead Designer

Buyer: The District Council of Folkestone and Hythe →

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BuyerThe District Council of Folkestone and Hythe
StatusClosed
Deadline31 Jul 2026
Value£300,000
Published21 Jul 2026

What is being bought

Folkestone and Hythe District Council (FHDC) wishes to select and appoint a design team for the redevelopment of Woodland Cottages, Lyminge and invites prospective suppliers to submit a Tender to meet the Council's requirements. The project brief is to demolish the existing Airey houses and redevelop the site with new affordable rental homes. This redevelopment provides an opportunity to increase site density, as the existing dwellings currently occupy disproportionately large plots. Initial viability studies indicate that the scheme must deliver a minimum of 17 new dwellings. Early and ongoing engagement with the Planning Authority will be essential to ensure a deliverable and acceptable scheme. The Local Authority Planning Department has advised that the design should reflect a Kent/Folkestone rural vernacular. The contract is anticipated to start September 2026 an estimated period of 4 years to complete RIBA stages 1-6 (with the option to extend for a further period (or periods) of up to 12 months). Interested suppliers can visit the Kent Business Portal (https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/65S5JUJ8BE). To quote you must complete and return the "Invitation to Tender Response Document" via the portal.

Delivery location

UKJ44, GB

Categories

Architectural services for buildings 71221000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£300,000
Contract periodFrom 14 Sept 2026 to 31 Aug 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
total tender sum (30%)
rural housing development experience — a) Please provide three examples of rural housing design projects undertaken within the last five years that were successfully progressed through to planning approval. Describe how you managed relationships with planning officers and other key stakeholders, including the Housing team. b) Please set out how the principles of the local vernacular would be interpreted and incorporated within the design, ensuring that the proposed new dwellings are sympathetic to, and sit harmoniously within, the established character of the village of Lyminge. (20%)
design management & coordination — a) Please describe your approach to coordinating the design team's outputs to ensure alignment, consistency, and quality through to the final Employer's Requirements (ERs). In addition, explain how you will develop and maintain a robust set of ER documents that enable clear, accurate, and unambiguous contractor responses. b) Please describe your proposed process for receiving, coordinating, reviewing, and responding to contractor design submissions and proposals to ensure compliance with the client's requirements and the ER documentation. Confirm how you will deliver this efficiently and robustly, incorporating input from the entire design team. c) Please describe how you will ensure the contractor delivers the design in accordance with the required quality standards. Explain your process for reviewing, responding to, and advising on costs of any design changes to maintain budget control, and how you will safeguard the project's design principles. (20%)
Weighted Resource Total — (refer to ITT instructions document for full description) (30%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Architectural services for buildingsNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 71. The category anchor is Architectural services for buildings (71221000); 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 7110,1165 median · 30 average (4,041 of 10,116 with a bid count)4.1 average (4,444 of 10,116 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKJ441910 median · 9.3 average (6 of 19 with a bid count)1 average (6 of 19 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)8264 median · 6.1 average (15 of 826 with a bid count)1.9 average (15 of 826 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 byGPA
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

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-06b1ca
Latest release ID068710-2026
Latest release timestampTue Jul 21 2026 12:42:29 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/068710-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-07-31T13:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-07-27T23:59:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-08-21T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailsInterested suppliers can visit the Kent Business Portal (https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/65S5JUJ8BE). To quote you must complete and return the "Invitation to Tender Response Document" via the portal.
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£300,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source3
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
21 Jul 2026tenderUpdate068710-2026
10 Jun 2026tender054726-2026

All source data

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

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    "description": "Folkestone and Hythe District Council (FHDC) wishes to select and appoint a design team for the redevelopment of Woodland Cottages, Lyminge and invites prospective suppliers to submit a Tender to meet the Council's requirements.\nThe project brief is to demolish the existing Airey houses and redevelop the site with new affordable rental homes. This redevelopment provides an opportunity to increase site density, as the existing dwellings currently occupy disproportionately large plots.\nInitial viability studies indicate that the scheme must deliver a minimum of 17 new dwellings. Early and ongoing engagement with the Planning Authority will be essential to ensure a deliverable and acceptable scheme. The Local Authority Planning Department has advised that the design should reflect a Kent/Folkestone rural vernacular.\nThe contract is anticipated to start September 2026 an estimated period of 4 years to complete RIBA stages 1-6 (with the option to extend for a further period (or periods) of up to 12 months).\nInterested suppliers can visit the Kent Business Portal (https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/65S5JUJ8BE). To quote you must complete and return the \"Invitation to Tender Response Document\" via the portal.",
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      "endDate": "2026-07-22T13:00:00+01:00"
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    "procurementMethod": "open",
    "mainProcurementCategory": "services",
    "submissionMethodDetails": "Interested suppliers can visit the Kent Business Portal (https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/65S5JUJ8BE). To quote you must complete and return the \"Invitation to Tender Response Document\" via the portal.",
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      "id": "GB-PPON-PHJN-7589-LMHY",
      "name": "The District Council of Folkestone and Hythe",
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        "region": "UKJ44",
        "country": "GB",
        "locality": "Folkestone",
        "postalCode": "CT20 2QY",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "Civic Centre, Castle Hill Avenue"
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      "contactPoint": {
        "name": "Ms Mhairi Richards",
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