Closed tender

Feasilbility, Funding and Delivery Partner(s)

Details

Value
£5,000,000
Topic
Financial consultancy services
Published
29 July 2026
Submission
24 August 2026

Tender description

Description: Thames Freeport (TFP) is one of eight English Freeports established under the Government's Freeport Policy. Spanning tax sites at DP World London Gateway (Thurrock), the Port of Tilbury (Thurrock), and Ford Dagenham (Barking & Dagenham), TFP operates as the accountable body for a programme of investment, infrastructure and innovation interventions targeting place-based economic growth across East London and the Estuary. TFP has published its Industry, Investment and Infrastructure Framework (TFIIIF), establishing an ambition to catalyse £16 billion in cumulative GVA, create 23,230 net additional jobs, and generate £1.5 billion in additional annual GVA across four sector clusters: Technology and Advanced Manufacturing; Sustainable Construction; Advanced Port Logistics; and Deployed Artificial Intelligence. To deliver the TFIIIF programme, TFP requires access to a high-calibre, multi-disciplinary Strategic Advisory Partner(s) capable of providing integrated advisory, appraisal, feasibility, investment facilitation and SPV services. The contract will be structured as a Framework Enabling Contract with Statements of Work drawn down per project. TFP anticipates annual spend of approximately £1,000,000 against a ceiling of £5,000,000 +VAT over the full 3+1+1 year term. The successful provider must be capable of delivering — individually or through a named consortium — all of the following service lines to create a single supplier Framework: •Service Line A — Treasury-Compliant Business Cases (HM Treasury Green Book, Five Case Model) •Service Line B — Programme and Project Evaluation (HM Treasury Magenta Book) •Service Line C — Project Feasibility Studies (RIBA Stages 0–2 and Pre-RIBA Technical Feasibility) •Service Line D — Investment Cases for Private and Institutional Capital •Service Line E — Business Planning and Financial Modelling •Service Line F — Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) Establishment and Ongoing Operation •Service Line G — Finance and Legal Services (SPV and Project Finance) •Service Line H — Investor Access and Capital Facilitation For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Essex:-Financial-consultancy-services./T7X536A6TR To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/T7X536A6TR

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published29 July 2026
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date24 August 2026

About the buyer

Thames Freeport is a government-designated Freeport tax site covering Tilbury, DP World London Gateway and Ford's Dagenham plant, and procures through its own delivery team. A board drawing on Barking and Dagenham, Thurrock and Havering councils oversees its programmes. Tenders are published through Find a Tender and the Delta eSourcing portal. Larger schemes, such as its Sustainable Construction Programme, run as competitive procedures under the Procurement Act 2023. The Skills Programme was delivered through an appointed external delivery partner, Matt Hamnett & Associates. Programme teams handle supplier enquiries by email once a tender is live.

£434bn was the total UK public sector procurement spend in FY 2025/26.

Over the past 5 years, most of Thames Freeport's contract awards have been in research and development, business services and education and training.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 66171000 · Financial consultancy services
  • 73200000 · Research and development consultancy services
  • 79111000 · Legal advisory services
  • 79411000 · General management consultancy services

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