Phase 1 - Silicon Sands Campus
What the buyer wrote
Blackpool Council is a unitary local authority providing public services to approximately 141,000 residents across 21 wards, making up the Borough of Blackpool. Blackpool Council is procuring a third-party concessionaire to: (i) invest, develop and operate a 6MVA exemplar data centre (together with ancillary office accommodation); and (ii) to connect the heat generated from the data centre to a proposed local heat network within the Silicon Sands site at the Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone. Blackpool Council believes that by enabling the development of new digital infrastructure, major economic and social benefits can accrue, bringing significant skilled employment and educational opportun…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Phase 1 - Silicon Sands Campus
- How they are buying
- Advertised, then negotiatedThe buyer talked terms with bidders rather than taking fixed offers.
- Type
- works
- Where
- in the North West
Asking a question
The buyer published a contact address on this notice. Questions closed on 11 Dec 2025, 16:00 GMT.
FTSprocurementnotices@blackpool.gov.uk
Above threshold you will be asked for a PPON and a share code when you bid. Getting one takes about half an hour, once.
You submit through the buyer’s own system: procontract.due-north.com, procontract.due-north.com, procontract.due-north.com, the-chest.org.uk.