Closed tender

Preliminary Market Engagement for Leeds City Centre Christmas Market Operator

Details

Buyer: Leeds City Council
Topic: Event services
Published: 3 November 2025
Submission: 24 November 2025
Source: uk:bluelight

Tender description

Leeds City Council (The Council) is looking to undertake a procurement process to appoint an experienced operator or operators to deliver a Christmas Market in City Square in Leeds city centre. This will include the provision of artisan market stalls, a hospitality offer and other associated festive animation. This preliminary market engagement exercise is being undertaken in order to obtain views of suppliers and provide advance information for our Christmas Market Operator tender and subsequent contract.

Timeline

Completed: Tender published3 November 2025
Current notice
Completed: Submission date24 November 2025

About the buyer

Leeds City Council buys as a local authority. Contract Procedure Rules set out how every purchase is carried out, whether competitively tendered or not.

A forward procurement pipeline on Data Mill North lists anticipated commercial activity for the next 24 months.

Over the past 5 years, most of Leeds City Council's contract awards have been in construction work, health and social work and business services.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@leeds-city-council.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@leeds-city-council.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@leeds-city-council.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@leeds-city-council.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@leeds-city-council.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@leeds-city-council.gov