Contract award · 24 Apr 2025

Land & Package Deal at Dark Lane, Calow

Guinness Developments Limited awarded “Land & Package Deal at Dark Lane, Calow” to Stancliffe Homes Limited for £7.47m. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionConstruction workEast Midlands

Value £7.47m

Awarded without open competition

Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.

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Key facts

Buyer
Guinness Developments Limited · Body governed by public law
Value
£7,465,825
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
Construction work · Building construction work (CPV 45210000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date24 Apr 2025
  2. Published30 May 2025Published 36 days after the contract date

Description

Guinness Developments Limited ("GDL") intends to enter into an agreement for the purchase of land and an associated build contract with SME housing developer Stancliffe Homes Ltd. ('Stancliffe'). This is a traditional land and build "package deal" brought to GDL by land agent Halo (Housing Assets Land and Organisation) Limited. The scheme will result in the construction of 35 affordable homes on land off Dark Lane, Calow, S44 5AD. It will comprise 16 rented and 19 shared ownership properties. Stancliffe have arranged to purchase the site from a private vendor and have completed initial design work up to RIBA stage 3. The package deal will be comprised of GDL entering into a JCT Design & Build contract for the construction of the new homes on the land with Stancliffe (which is the subject of this notice), and a simultaneous purchase of the land from Stancliffe by The Guinness Partnership Ltd., GDL's parent company (an exempt transaction under the Public Contract Regulations 2015). The …

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Date Contract Supplier Value
19 Dec 2025 Stancliffe Homes Limited SME £7.13m

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