Official UK procurement notice
Development & Funding Partner for Leeds City Centre Heat Network (LCCHN)
Authority: Leeds City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLeeds City Council will shortly be seeking a Development & Funding Partner to develop and deliver a heat network in Leeds.
The Development & Funding Partner will need to have capital and technical capabilities to support the city's heat network strategy. They will be required to develop, invest in, deliver, own, operate, maintain and expand a heat network, using a Golden Share Delivery Model.
During the development stage, the Development & Funding Partner will be responsible for the design and commercialisation of the proposed heat network. It is envisaged that this will be followed by a delivery stage where the Development & Funding Partner would deliver the low carbon heating network.
CPV: District-heating mains construction work · Energy and related services · Heating works · Urban development construction work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Concession
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 14 May 2025, 08:57 BST
- Last source update
- 14 May 2025, 08:57 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-021050- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051291Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
14 May 2025 → 1 Mar 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published14 May 2025, 08:57 BST
- Market engagement30 May 2025, 23:59 BST
The preliminary market engagement related to this project will take the form of a Supplier Briefing Call which will be held on Wednesday 4th June via MS Teams.
Any questions raised at the event will be answered after the event and circulated to all attendees alongside the materials from the presentation. Both will also be included in the procurement documents published alongside the Tender Notice.
Suppliers interested in bidding for this opportunity are encouraged to attend the Supplier Briefing Call and should email HeatNetworkProcurement@Leeds.gov.uk by Friday 30th May 2025 with the name, job role and email address of those wishing to attend.
Any queries regarding the Supplier Briefing Call should be emailed to the team on: HeatNetworkProcurement@Leeds.gov.uk
This market sounding exercise is not an invitation to tender or a request for formal expressions of interest.
- Tender notice expected23 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts242 days ago1 Mar 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published14 May 2025, 08:57 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender