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ClosedStage · tender

ForHousing Limited

ForHousing - Bowler Yard, Pollard Street Development

ConstructionCPV 45211340
Value£12.0m
Deadline17 May 2023
Published17 Apr 2023
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 17 Apr 2023ClosedCloses 17 May 2023
Who to contact
The Procurement Team
procurement@forhousing.co.uk
+44 1616057606

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

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£12.0mtotal contract value
median £158k
this tender£0£13.0m

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The brief

ForHousing Limited (the “authority”) wish to procure a main contractor to deliver the Bowlers Yard scheme located in the Northern Quarter, Manchester on a fixed price design and build basis, with the intention of starting development works in October 2023.

The site, which boarder the Metrolink Ashton line in New Islington, has already been purchased (in September 2022) and is in the ownership of ForHousing.

Planning permission for 62 apartments was granted in August 2020, no planning changes are proposed to the current scheme.

Properties are being developed for Shared Ownership and the letting and the management of the properties will be undertaken by the Group’s commercial subsidiary ForLiving.

The owner of the site, ForHousing will be the ultimate client for the scheme, though it will be contracting through the ForViva’s Group’s development vehicle, ForViva DevCo Limited.

Accordingly, ForViva DevCo will be the “Employer” under the Contract.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
010971-2023
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