Notice Information
Notice Title
Cardiff International Sports Village (ISV) Car Park and Development Opportunity - Pre-Market Engagement
Notice Description
The future procurement opportunity aims to appoint a developer to design, finance and deliver a car park with a minimum of 850 spaces at an agreed location on the International Sports Village site in Cardiff Bay (the Scheme). Where the Scheme is successfully delivered in accordance with Cardiff Councils (the Council's) requirements it intends to acquire the completed output from the successful supplier upon practical completion. For the avoidance of doubt, the upcoming procurement opportunity is not anticipated to require the successful supplier to operate and/or maintain the Scheme. The successful bidder will be tasked with delivering the car parking provision including lighting and landscaping and further, more detailed information on these requirements will be made available when a Tender Notice is published by the Council. Subject to the feedback obtained from this preliminary market engagement the Council envisages commencing a public procurement process for the Scheme in July 2026. Please see documents attached in Proactis.
Planning Information
Cardiff Council (the Council) is issuing this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice (Notice) to commence preliminary market engagement with interested contractors and developers in respect of a future procurement process that it intends to launch in July 2026. This Notice serves to alert the marketplace to this opportunity and enable the Council to use any gathered information to shape the proposed procurement. The Council invites interested prospective contractors to lodge an initial expression of interest for this opportunity electronically via Proactis https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login. In particular, the Council is seeking views/feedback from the market for the purposes of: Developing the Council’s requirements and approach to the procurement. Designing a procedure, conditions or participation or award criteria. Preparing a tender notice and associated tender documents. Identifying suppliers that may be able to supply the works required. Building capacity among suppliers in relation to the contract to be awarded. The Council makes the following supporting information available with this Notice: PME Notice Information Document Annex 1: Site Plan and Car Park/Development Red Line The intention is to conduct the procurement using the Competitive Flexible Procedure as provided for under the Procurement Act 2023. The procurement process will involve a multi-staged process, which will permit dialogue and negotiation on the contract documents. The competition will start with a pre-qualification process to allow the Council to identify and shortlist the most capable developers who will then be subsequently invited to dialogue and negotiate on the Scheme and following this to submit tenders. Further details of the process will be made available when the procurement commences. Whilst this Notice aims to provide interested suppliers with information in relation to an upcoming procurement opportunity, the Council reserves the right to amend and/or revise the information contained within this Notice when a competitive tendering exercise is formally initiated via the publication of a Tender Notice. Please note that as part of this process suppliers are required to provide a response to the questions that are detailed in the Information document. Suppliers re required to submit there responses via the Proactis Portal by 5pm on the 21st of May 2026.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-069409
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/042225-2026
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Works
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
31 - Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting
34 - Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
45 - Construction work
51 - Installation services (except software)
63 - Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services
65 - Public utilities
71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
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- CPV Codes
31158000 - Chargers
31681500 - Rechargers
34000000 - Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
45000000 - Construction work
51000000 - Installation services (except software)
63712600 - Vehicle refuelling services
65300000 - Electricity distribution and related services
71000000 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
71315200 - Building consultancy services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £4,500,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 8 May 20266 days ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 1 Jul 20262 months to go
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 1 Mar 2027 - 31 Aug 2028 1-2 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planning
- Lots Status
- Planning
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- CARDIFF COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CARDIFF
- Postcode
- CF10 4UW
- Post Town
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLL Wales
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLL5 South East Wales
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLL52 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
- Delivery Location
- TLL Wales
-
- Local Authority
- Cardiff
- Electoral Ward
- Butetown
- Westminster Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/042225-2026
8th May 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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