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Published 28 Aug 2025, 15:32 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Willow House Construction - Main Contractor - Pre-Market Engagement Questionnaire

Official notice

Authority: City of York Council (Local council)

WorksAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Construction & Civil Engineering (45) Delivery: Yorkshire & Humber (UKE2)
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yr 3 moends 1 Aug 2028 · starts 1 May 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The purpose of this market engagement is to understand the capability and appetite within the market to construct Passivhaus, preferably timber frame homes. This document is accompanied by a drawing pack which contains further information to assist your organisation with responding to the queries within the document in relation to this scheme.

CPV: Construction work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 1 yr 3 moSME
Contract period: 1 May 2027 – 1 Aug 2028 (1 yr 3 mo)
Delivery: Yorkshire & HumberEligibility: SME eligible
45000000 Construction work

Procedure 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
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 Aug 2025, 15:32 BST
Last source update
23 Sept 2025, 10:09 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-058769
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Construction work
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE2)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058f95 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

28 Aug 2025 → 1 May 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    28 Aug 2025, 15:32 BST
  2. Latest notice published
    23 Sept 2025, 10:09 BST
  3. Market engagement394 days ago
    2 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST

    City of York Council have an opportunity for Preliminary Market Engagement to inform the contractor market on Willow House. This new build housing scheme will be coming to the market as a tender opportunity in the coming months.

    Further information, detail and market engagement questions can be found via YORtender (yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp ↗) with the reference number 102873.

    The submission deadline for the premarket engagement is Thursday 25 September 2025 at 12pm.

    All of City of York Council's procurement opportunities are published on YORtender, in order to bid for this your organisation will need to be registered to the portal. You can register your organisation here:

    yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp ↗

    All suppliers who wish to bid for City of York Council procurement opportunities must be registered on the Central Digital Platform, with all supplier information submitted and kept up to date. Your organisation can register on the Central Digital Platform here:

    supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk ↗

    To see all upcoming opportunities, City of York Council publish a pipeline of all upcoming procurement which can be found here: data.yorkopendata.org/dataset/cyc-procurem… ↗

  4. Today
    1 Nov 2026
  5. Contract startsin 180 days
    1 May 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 28 Aug 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    28 Aug 2025, 15:32 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    28 Aug 2025, 15:56 BST
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    23 Sept 2025, 10:09 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Extended the deadline to 2nd October 2025

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

City of York Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PQVW-9426-LDJV West Offices, Station Rise, York, Yorkshire & Humber, YO1 6GAContact email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure