Contract award · 12 Sep 2025

Sale of Land at Upper Cosmeston Farm

Welsh Government awarded “Sale of Land at Upper Cosmeston Farm” to BDW Trading for £1 on 12 Sep 2025. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionConstruction workWales

Value £1
WinnerBDW Trading

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
Welsh Government · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
Supplier
BDW Trading
Value
£1
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
Construction work · Construction work (CPV 45000000)
Region
Wales
Timeline
  1. Contract date12 Sep 2025
  2. Published16 Sep 2025Published 4 days after the contract date

Description

The purpose of this Transparency Notice is to inform the market that the Welsh Ministers intend to enter into various land transactions to dispose of an interest in land to BDW Trading Limited (BDW) and to enable BDW to deliver 576 homes on the land at Upper Cosmeston Farm, in the Vale of Glamorgan. Details of the land transactions are as follows:(i) a development agreement for the construction of residential units which requires the following to be entered into simultaneously: (a) the grant of the Lease (referred to in (ii) below); (b) completion of the Put Option Agreement and Call Option Agreement (referred to in (iii) below); and (c) completion of the Overage Agreement (referred to in (iv) below):(ii) a lease for a term of 13 years in relation to the land on which construction of the residential units may take place to include a conditional drawdown of that land;(iii) a Put Option Agreement and Call Option Agreement for the benefit of the Welsh Ministers affecting the last 10 resi…

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