UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

The Authority is inviting tenders from suitable partners who wish to be considered to manage and operate the Authority's Leisure Services. This procurement falls under Schedule 3 of the Public Contract Regulations - Social and Other Specific Services and the Council is using the Competitive Procedure with Negotiation ("CPN"). The Contract is for the operation of the Authority-owned (unless otherwise stated) Fleetwood Leisure Centre, Garstang Leisure Centre, Garstang Swimming Pool (currently owned by Lancashire County Council and leased by the council), Poulton Leisure Centre and Thornton Leisure Centre. The Contract also includes provision of a Beach Patrol Service at bathing beaches in Fleetwood and Cleveleys at weekends and school holidays during the summer period. Commencing on 1 April 2026, the contract is for 10 years, with an option to extend for up to two additional periods of up to 5 years each. The total possible contract duration, including extension provisions will be 20 years.

The Authority is inviting tenders from suitable partners who wish to be considered to manage and operate the Authority's Leisure Services. This procurement falls under Schedule 3 of the Public Contract Regulations - Social and Other Specific Services and the Council is using the Competitive Procedure with Negotiation ("CPN"). The Contract is for the operation of the Authority-owned (unless otherwise stated) Fleetwood Leisure Centre, Garstang Leisure Centre, Garstang Swimming Pool (currently owned by Lancashire County Council and leased by the council), Poulton Leisure Centre and Thornton Leisure Centre. The Contract also includes provision of a Beach Patrol Service at bathing beaches in Fleetwood and Cleveleys at weekends and school holidays during the summer period. Commencing on 1 April 2026, the contract is for 10 years, with an option to extend for up to two additional periods of up to 5 years each. The total possible contract duration, including extension provisions will be 20 years.

Bulky Waste Service is a bulky household items collection service, which includes re-use, recycling and recovery of collected items, operating across Fylde and Wyre. We are looking to appoint a single supplier to provide the management and delivery of the Bulky Waste Service, on behalf of Fylde Council and Wyre Borough Council. The successful supplier will operate an appointment system for the collection of bulky items and collection dates, including a choice of am/pm and evening collections in a 3 hour time zone, via the supplier's ordering system which will be capable of interfacing with council customer service IT and call handling systems. The service shall as a minimum be provided Monday to Saturday, with at least one evening and weekend slot available within each Local Authority area. The service provider will not be required to provide the service on Bank Holidays, nationally proclaimed holidays, nor between Christmas Day and New Years Day (inclusive). The Service Provider shall organise the service such that it is capable of meeting the Fylde Council and Wyre Council's service requests to ensure no customer waits longer than 10 working days (unless requested by the customer). The Service Provider must provide enough resource to handle, as a minimum, 6,450 collections per annum across the two Authorities operating 6 days per week including 2 evenings and a Saturday. Fylde Council and Wyre Council wish to appoint a Service Provider who can clearly demonstrate the ability to meet our requirements and who offers the most advantageous tender. It is anticipated that the contract term will be from 1 October 2025 to 30 Sept 2029, with the option to extend for a period of 1 year (subject to contract review and budget availability).

Marine Hall is an art deco, multipurpose venue built in 1935 and is celebrating its 90th birthday in November 2025. Sitting in a prime seafront location, surrounded by beautiful, well-kept gardens. Marine Hall has a strong emotional connection with the people of Fleetwood who very often have grown up with the venue, met their special loved one, and occasionally even married them in the Hall. Such strong community connections ensure there is support for the Hall to build on what has already gone before, achieve success and deliver a viable mix of community and professionally staged events across the year. In keeping with its place as an important community asset, the Hall was given over to the use as a Covid-19 vaccination hub for two years during the pandemic when all cultural activity came to a halt. Whilst this reminded local people of its value, it also made it more difficult to bring it back to life in its natural guise as it was still administering vaccines when other venues were benefiting from a Covid bounce. Wyre Council have committed to the future of Marine Hall, both as a singular space for entertainment and cultural participation and as a central element of the Fleetwood Waterfront Masterplan which embraces the Hall as an economic driver for other activity and wellbeing activities on the seafront location. On taking part in a survey on the future of the Marine Hall two years ago, local people made it clear they expect to see the Hall maintained, strengthened and continue to be used as a cultural asset. In ensuring viability for the Hall, work was done to achieve a viable programming option that could take the venue forward. Moving from a fixed fee-based venue for hire to a commercial "split deal" venue has allowed venue management to rebuild a more varied and attractive programming proposition with higher value promoters and artists whilst still staging community product in a financially viable way. Our versatile main hall holds 650 people seated or 957 standing and is capable of staging a full-on market with changeover to a seated theatre show or a full dinner or cabaret setting. Marine Hall benefits from two very sizeable bar spaces servicing the auditorium. There is an appetite within the council to continue to invest in what is undoubtedly a major cultural asset and Wyre will work in partnership with the successful operator and key stakeholders to deliver a strong and viable cultural offer at Marine Hall. In bringing our aspirations for the redevelopment of the Waterfront Bar closer to reality, Wyre have invested approximately £35,000 in architectural design work up to RIBA 3 for this space and the adjoining kitchen. In doing so, we aim to create a daytime hospitality and hire proposition as well as a second performance space with the capacity of 110. In recognition that these changes have the potential to deliver new income streams in the future which will undoubtedly play a key part in the operator's commercial and artistic plans, we will provide opportunities during the tender process for potential operators to influence these. We envisage the full cost of this investment will sit with Wyre and predict any such work will take place from April 2026 with completion in time for Christmas 2026. Provisional drawings have been provided in the data room but these are subject to change throughout the process. In addition to the standard programme, Marine Hall will stage our inaugural Film Festival in February 2026. With opportunities for local as well as national and international film makers to screen their work, this promises to play a big part in developing movie making talent within Wyre. Investment from Wyre has already delivered a new ticketing and CRM system that better allows us to understand and market to our existing audience whilst devising strategies to build the audience of the future. Advance bookings currently sit higher than the previous nine years cumulatively and continued effort to improve programming will see this grow further, particularly with the addition of our second space. Wyre are seeking a theatre operator as a partner in delivering these and future cultural aspirations for the people of Fleetwood and the wider Wyre area.

Tenders are being invited from Operators on the basis that the Contract will be for a period of 3 years with the option of a 2-year extension, commencing on 12 April 2026. The successful Operator will enter into a Lease of the Ferry Dock (including buildings) and Knott End slipway defined in the Contract to assist in the performance of the Ferry Service. The contract is to provide an annual passenger ferry service between Fleetwood and Knott End. The service is classed as Inland waters - Category C - Tidal river, estuary where the significant wave height could not be expected to exceed 1.2m at any time. It is subject to tidal restrictions which may reduce the number of sailings possible. The Service will operate at least once per hour from 7.45am to 5.45pm, subject to tidal and weather restrictions, throughout the summer (Easter Sunday to 31 October) with reduced hours in the Winter months. The Operator may choose to operate additional sailings at any time at his discretion. The Operator is required to provide a ferry vessel, suitably qualified staff, and to be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Service. The anticipated vessel size would, as a minimum, be registered as a Small Commercial Vessel and certified under the MCA's Code of Practice. The vessel will be registered to operate within Area Category 4 and will carry no more than twelve passengers per journey. Based on current usage, it is estimated that the ferry vessel will carry 30,000 - 40,000 passengers per annum. The operator will retain all fares including slipway launch fees at Knott End slipway.