Cardiff International Sports Village (ISV) Car Park and Development Opportunity - Pre-Market Engagement

Procurement reference

ERFX1008848

Procurement 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.

Main category

Works

Delivery regions

• UKL - Wales

Total value (estimated)

4500000.00 GBP Excluding VAT

5400000.00 GBP Including VAT

Contract dates (estimated)

01 March 2027, 00:00AM to 31 August 2028, 23:59PM

Cardiff Council

Is the total value above threshold?

Above threshold

CPV classifications

• 45000000 - Construction work
• 71315200 - Building consultancy services
• 71000000 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
• 31158000 - Chargers
• 31681500 - Rechargers
• 34000000 - Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
• 65300000 - Electricity distribution and related services
• 51000000 - Installation services (except software)
• 63712600 - Vehicle refuelling services

Delivery regions

• UKL - Wales

Contract start date (estimated)

01 March 2027, 00:00AM

Contract end date (estimated)

31 August 2028, 23:59PM

Engagement process description

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.

Due date

21 May 2026, 23:59PM

Has the engagement period already ended?

No

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

01 July 2026