Official UK procurement notice
Wirral Water Sports Centre Complex - Preliminary Market Engagement
Authority: Wirral Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWirral Borough Council (the "Council") is undertaking this preliminary market engagement to consult with potential operators to inform a delivery model to operate the Wirral Water Sports Centre Complex.
The Wirral Water Sports Centre operates, delivers and facilitates a diverse range of Water Sports on the Council owned and managed "West Kirby Marine Lake" a key local and regional leisure and recreational health and wellbeing destination.
The Council is seeking to ascertain whether there is sufficient interest from appropriate providers to establish a procurement and delivery strategy for the Wirral Water Sports Centre. The Council will retain a keen interest in the site and as such, any future operator must maintain a good relationship with the Council and will be an important consideration for the Council with regards to legacy implications.
The preliminary market engagement is being carried out under the current provisions of Regulation 17 of the Procurement Regulations 2024 and Sections 16 and 17 of the Procurement Act 2023.
CPV: Sports facilities operation services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 21 Mar 2025, 13:57 GMT
- Last source update
- 21 Mar 2025, 14:01 GMT
- Authority reference
DN768521- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-010709- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04f76dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 Mar 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published21 Mar 2025, 13:57 GMT
- Market engagement14 Apr 2025, 23:59 BST
The preliminary market engagement information is available via The Chest (www.the-chest.org.uk ↗), which is the Council's e-tendering portal. Expressions of interests by completing the relevant questions will be submitted on The Chest. The link to the advert is below -
- Contract starts210 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 Mar 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Mar 2025, 13:57 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Mar 2025, 14:01 GMTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Internal Reference Number has been corrected
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender