2526-0628 Wray Crescent Park Building – Building Contractor

Islington Council intends to procure a single supplier for an agreement to enable delivery of the demolition of an existing cricket pavilion, and the construction of a replacement building in the same location. The new one-storey building will provide sporting infrastructure to support sport play in the park, a community space for wider public benefit, and an office for Park Services. In addition, there will be some landscaping and general wider park improvements. Planning permission was granted in August 2024. (P2024/0369/FUL)

The supplier must be registered on the London Tenders Portal (LTP).

The deadline for submissions of interest is 16.59am on 17 April 2026.

Engagement Information
This Notice is for informational purposes only and is not a formal invitation to tender. Its aim is to enhance transparency and competition for the upcoming tender notice. All details provided here may be updated or changed in the final tender notice. The Authority reserves the right to cancel, postpone, suspend or abort the procurement at any stage. The issue of this notice in no way commits the Authority to commence a procurement process.

This premarket engagement exercise is being conducted to help the council assess the level of market interest in this project.
In order to contribute to this engagement exercise and indicate your interest in this contract opportunity, please notify the council via the e-tendering system.

Lots
This works contract is not being divided in to lots.

Term of the agreement
The agreement will run for a period of 9 months. It is estimated that the Contract will start around July 2026. The form of Contract – JCT Intermediate with Contractor’s Design.

Value of the agreement
The estimated budget for the Contract is £1.2m - £1.4m excl. VAT for the maximum period of the Contract.

Award Criteria
One provider who submits the Most Advantageous Tender(s) (MAT) in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 will be party to the agreement.

The procurement will be evaluated based on an award criteria of 50% Price, 20% Social Value, 20% Programme and Delivery, 5% Quality Control and 5% Health and Safety. Total 100%

Further details will be provided in the invitation to tender when issued.

Procurement process
This contract will be procured using the open procedure. All organisations who successfully express an interest will automatically be invited to tender and have access to the tender documents. Those who submit a tender and meet the minimum requirements will have their full tender evaluated.

How to express an interest
If you wish to apply for this contract opportunity please follow these steps:
• Register your organisation free of charge via the London Tenders Portal
• When you receive an email confirming your username and password use these to log on to the London Tenders Portal and express your interest in ‘2526-0628 Wray Crescent Park Building – Building Contractor’
• Shortly after you have expressed interest, you will receive a second email containing a link to access the procurement documents.

Deadlines
The deadline for expressions of interest is: 16.59am April 2026

Additional information
• Islington Council and its partners are committed to work towards a ‘Fairer Islington’, for more information see www.islington.gov.uk.

• Islington Council aims to provide equality of opportunity and welcomes applicants who meet the qualitative selection criteria from black and minority ethnic communities and disabled groups.

• The council encourages all types of organisation who meet the qualitative selection criteria including Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations, Social Enterprises or not for profit enterprises and small to medium enterprises (SME) to tender.

• All questions relating to this contract should be raised via the messages section of the relevant contract on the London Tenders Portal. Please do not contact any officer of the council directly.

• As part of a commitment to transparency the council is now publishing all spend over £500 each month. This includes spend on contracts, so the successful contractor should expect details of spend against the contract to appear on the council website Council spending | Islington Council. The council is also committed to publishing tender and contract documentation after contract award stage. Commercially sensitive information will be redacted from documentation. What constitutes commercially sensitive information is a matter for the council’s sole discretion. However, tenderer will be invited to identify information they consider to be commercially sensitive in their tender return and this will be taken into account in the council forming a view.

• In accordance with the Procurement Regulations 2024, please note that for contracts with an estimated value of more than £5 million, the council will publish in the Contract Award Notice the name of each supplier that submitted a tender which was assessed for the purposes of determining the most advantageous tender and was not awarded the contract.