The consortium was given preferred bidder status but eventually pulled out of the deal.
"They're (The Football League) asking for a few more bits to be done and we're hopeful that we'll get a completion date out of the Football League," Heaney, whose consortium Bishop International were preferred bidders for the club, added.
Decisions about what treatments to fund and who should provide them will not be made by the people who've been treating me but by the consortium, which may prefer to do business with another provider.
They hope will be accepted and allow the club to exit administration by 12 July, under the control of a consortium fronted by businessman Charles Green, which currently has preferred bidder status.
The racing industry is understood to have preferred a rival bid from Sport Investments Partners (SIP), a consortium led by British Airways chairman Martin Broughton.
Brendan Guilfoyle of the club's administrators, P & A Partnership, today formally granted the CPFC 2010 group preferred bidder status having apparently been satisfied the consortium boasts the funds to buy Palace and reach agreement with their creditors.
They preferred candidates from the institutions involved in the consortium and considered that the students increased knowledge and skills would be of wider benefit at their workplaces, as well as to increase the chances of their being retained after the project was completed.
(See Foreign Partnerss To Complete Alitalia Jigsaw").. Compagnia Aerea Italiana, the heads of an Italian investment consortium that recently bought Alitalia, have told Italy's government that they preferred Air France-KLM as their foreign partner, following a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a source from the CAI consortium told Reuters.
The Magna bid — from a consortium of Magna International Inc. and the Russian lender Sberbank — is the one preferred by the German government.
The LLDC board - which preferred West Ham to League One side Leyton Orient, UCFB College of Football Business and a consortium linked to Formula 1 - is set to meet on 26 March.
