Planning

Castle & Eye of York

  • City of York Council

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-077941

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05eac6

Published 28 November 2025, 9:32am



Scope

Reference

105585

Description

City of York Council have a Preliminary Market Engagement Opportunity for a Castle & Eye of York, a major public realm project within the centre of York. City of York Council wish to engage with Main Contractors prior to a procurement opportunity being issued to the market.

The purpose of this market engagement is to understand the capability and appetite within the market to undertake these works. This document is accompanied by a drawing pack which contains further information to assist your organisation with responding to the below queries in relation to this scheme.

The Preliminary Market Engagement document containing further information, detail and market engagement questions can be found via YORtender (https://yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=YORTENDER) with the reference number 105585.

The submission deadline for the premarket engagement is Wednesday 7th January 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: https://yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=YORTENDER

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: https://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: https://data.yorkopendata.org/dataset/cyc-procurement-pipeline

Total value (estimated)

  • £8,500,000 excluding VAT
  • £10,200,000 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 August 2026 to 1 June 2027
  • 10 months, 1 day

Main procurement category

Works

CPV classifications

  • 45000000 - Construction work

Contract locations

  • UKE21 - York

Engagement

Engagement deadline

7 January 2026

Engagement process description

The purpose of this market engagement is to understand the capability and appetite within the market to undertake these works. This document is accompanied by a drawing pack which contains further information to assist your organisation with responding to the below queries in relation to this scheme.

The Preliminary Market Engagement document containing further information, detail and market engagement questions can be found via YORtender (https://yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=YORTENDER) with the reference number 105585.

The submission deadline for the premarket engagement is Wednesday 7th January 2025 at 12pm.


Contracting authority

City of York Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PQVW-9426-LDJV

West Offices, Station Rise

York

YO1 6GA

United Kingdom

Region: UKE21 - York

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government