PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Princes School - Appointment of Principal Contractor

How to read contract values: notice stages, dates and worked examples

Liverpool City Council · published 28 Oct 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID00a9518e-4323-469f-9b00-a8cd29e787d2-919554
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-52f90151-60bc-4cc3-9093-92dc40d8307f
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-26061
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£808,137
award field
Tender value
£29,009,200
tender field
Procurement method
Other -
Category
services
CPV
45000000
Construction work
Delivery
North West, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

A PCSA Pre Construction Services Agreement is awarded for Princes School - Appointment of Principal Contractor, Liverpool City Council (LCC), the Employer, require a Principal Contractor for the Construction of Princes Primary School (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities 'SEND'), a brand-new SEND specialist primary school in Toxteth, Liverpool. Design for the scheme has been developed to a RIBA 3+ level and fully coordinated across design disciplines including Architecture, Civils and Structures, MEP, Landscape as well as more specialist design services including SEND/PRM consultancy input into SOA, adjacencies, operation and loose FF&E, acoustics, fire, lighting, hydrotherapy, catering and ICT. The Contractor is procured via a 2-stage tender process. The 1st Stage tender process will identify a Contractor who will be selected to work with the client and design team under a Pre-Construction Services Agreement (PCSA) during the 2nd Stage tender process to develop the RIBA Stage 4 design and agree a contract sum. Subject to agreement with the client the contractor would then be appointed to deliver the construction, commissioning and handover phases (D&B works contract). This award represents the 1st Stage Tender only, procured via the Procure Partnerships Framework (North-West) The Contract Agreement term for the entire scheme is anticipated to be 3 years plus 12-month defect period. Contract term for PCSA will be subject to tendered programme. The authority reserves the right to extend contract term subject to programme requirements. (which shall be at the Authority's sole discretion) (PCSA due to be complete by 25th March 2027, Build to be complete by end July 28) Additional information: This award relates to the first stage of a Design and Build procurement. The Council has entered into a Pre-Construction Services Agreement (PCSA) and reserves the right to award the subsequent Stage 2 Works Contract to the successful PCSA contractor, subject to satisfactory performance during the PCSA stage and agreement of all commercial, technical and governance requirements.

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release28 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published19 Oct 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published19 Nov 2025End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published19 Oct 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published25 Mar 2027
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

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Published name only

Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastucture Limited

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 28 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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