Official UK procurement notice
Dewsbury Riverside - Appointment of Master Developer
Authority: Kirklees Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionKirklees Council is seeking interest from suitably qualified and experienced parties for the role of a Master Developer to drive forward the delivery of the Dewsbury Riverside housing allocated site.
The site is in multiple ownerships. The two most significant land owners, Kirklees Council and Savile Estate are now progressing the delivery process together under a Collaboration Agreement. It is indicated that these two land ownerships can deliver approximately 2,000 homes.
A master developer will be required to deliver a number of phases throughout the contract currently anticipated to include: Masterplan and phasing strategy, land assembly, planning, infrastructure delivery / site servicing, marketing of serviced land, funding strategy, setting up stewardship arrangements, supporting the delivery of appropriate social value and community engagement.
The Council has been working closely with Homes England to define a delivery strategy for the site and procurement programme, with the successful master developer proposed to be appointed in Spring 2026. A funding application to Homes England is being progressed in parallel with the developer procurement process. It is envisaged that a substantial proportion of the infrastructure package costs will be capable of being funded through Homes England grant.
Technical work produced on behalf of the Council and Homes England has identified the site preparation, infrastructure and development costs throughout the life of the delivery programme amounting to a maximum of £150 million. The Council have been undertaking works to understand the required infrastructure works and costings to feed into a funding bid, which has identified a viability gap and resulting public sector funding requirement of in the range of £60 - £70 million. It is anticipated that the funding bid will be made by the master developer and the grant funding agreement will be between Homes England and the appointed the master developer
Further details on the opportunity can be accessed via YORtender - uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_… ↗.
If the link does not work, then please search for the Prelimary Market Engagement using the details below;
Quote/Tender ID - 101259
Reference - KMCHG-026 - Dewsbury Riverside - Appointment of Master Developer
This includes a description of scope of works required, information on the proposed route to market, conditions of contract & programme timescales
CPV: Construction work for houses · Development services of real estate · Hire of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment with operator · Houses construction work · Land sale or purchase services · Site preparation work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 28 May 2025, 10:03 BST
- Last source update
- 11 Jul 2025, 13:06 BST
- Authority reference
KMCHG-026- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-039263- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-052785Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 May 2025 → 30 Jun 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published28 May 2025, 10:03 BST
- Latest notice published11 Jul 2025, 13:06 BST
- Market engagement1 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
Further details on the opportunity can be accessed via YORtender - uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_… ↗.
If the link does not work, then please search for the Prelimary Market Engagement using the details below;
Quote/Tender ID - 101259
Reference - KMCHG-026 - Dewsbury Riverside - Appointment of Master Developer
The deadline for submitting expressions of interest is 1st August 2025.
Interested parties are encouraged to provide feedback via the 'Response Form' and suppliers have the ability to raise any clarification questions via the 'Messaging' function.
- Tender notice expected1 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts120 days ago30 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 28 May 2025- Pipeline notice published28 May 2025, 10:03 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Jul 2025, 13:06 BSTUK2
- Published value published: £150,000,00011 Jul 2025, 13:06 BST
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender