Official UK procurement notice
Redevelopment of the Wendling Estate and St Stephen’s Close
Authority: London Borough of Camden (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Wendling Estate is a council estate located in the Gospel Oak ward, with St Stephen’s Close immediately adjacent. Together they are known as the Wendling and St Stephen’s Close Estate, covering approximately 2.6 hectares and comprising 240 existing homes, including at the time of writing 191 Council-tenanted homes and 49 leasehold properties.
The regeneration of the Wendling Estate and St Stephen’s Close is an important part of the Council’s Community Investment Programme. Residents voted in favour of full redevelopment of the Estate in July 2021 because they wanted new homes, better outdoor spaces, and a safer, more welcoming neighbourhood. The redevelopment proposals aim to deliver high-quality, energy efficient, genuinely affordable and private homes that meet residents’ needs and address long standing issues facing the existing Estate, such as overcrowding and antisocial behaviour.
The Council intends, subject to Cabinet approval, to procure a joint venture development partner to deliver a redevelopment of the estate comprising circa 650-750 high-quality, sustainable new homes; replace the existing hostel and health centre; and improve the existing neighbourhood for current and future residents. The redevelopment will be delivered in accordance with the Landlord Offer that formed the basis of the resident ballot. The contract estimated value is £500m GDV (Gross Development Value).
Please refer to the instructions set out in the ‘Engagement Process Description’ section below for details on how to participate in this process.
CPV: Buying and selling of real estate · Development of residential real estate · Houses construction work · Multi-dwelling buildings construction work · Real estate services · Sale of real estate
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How London Borough of Camden buys Building construction work (CPV 4521), and who usually turns up
London Borough of Camden’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Building construction work (CPV 4521) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 27 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid19% / 17%
2–331% / 27%
4–636% / 31%
7+14% / 25%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate43% / 32%
Within ±2%37% / 32%
Above estimate20% / 36%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 4521Published estimate£500m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 48 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–327%
4–631%
7+25%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 21 Sept 2026, 18:20 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Sept 2026, 18:20 BST
- Authority reference
DN829493- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-089377- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 Sept 2026 → 1 Dec 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published37 days ago21 Sept 2026, 18:20 BST
- Market engagement25 days ago2 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Prior to tender, LB Camden wishes to engage with suppliers on the following:
- Approach to redevelopment of the estate
- Funding assumptions
- Form of contract, contract conditionality, long-stop dates
- Vacant possession and rehousing
- Development management responsibilities
- Competition requirements/process
The preliminary market engagement process will involve:
- Publication of this PME Notice – Monday 14th September 2026
- Suppliers are asked to register their interest using the messaging system in ProContract – by Friday 2nd October 2026. Please follow this link: procontract.due-north.com/Supplier/Advert/View ↗
- Upon registration suppliers will be requested to sign a Confidentiality Agreement. Once signed and returned via the portal, the project briefing pack will be made available.
- One to One supplier meetings may be arranged with suppliers registering their interest. The Authority reserves the right to hold individual meetings with organisations demonstrating relevant experience, capability, capacity or market insight that is particularly relevant to the objectives of the engagement. Participation in, or exclusion from, these discussions will not affect any supplier's ability to participate in or be evaluated under any future procurement process.
- An agenda for the meetings will be sent to suppliers as part of the project briefing pack.
- The project briefing pack will also comprise:
- Summary of key Council project requirements
- Site feasibility information
- Summary of proposed competition structure and process
- Suppliers to review the agenda and project briefing pack provided in advance of meeting with LB Camden so that they can bring along considered thinking / material which can aid productive discussions in relation to the project and agenda items.
- Meetings will be arranged face to face or via Teams - w/c 5th October and w/c 12th October
- LB Camden will take notes of each meeting, to provide a record of discussions held.
- Feedback gathered through the engagement will be used to inform a Council Cabinet decision later in 2026 and the finalisation of competition documentation.
LB Camden welcomes interest from all suitable suppliers. Suppliers will be considered suitable for participation if they have experience and current capability to design, fund and deliver large urban residential developments of 500+ mixed tenure homes.
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 75 days11 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 398 days1 Dec 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Sept 2026, 18:20 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