Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 23 Sept 2026, 11:41 BST

Official UK procurement notice

2425-0692 Supported Housing and Floating Support Framework

Authority: Islington Council (Local council)

Framework agreementServicesAbove thresholdLight touch regime
Planned pipeline value£200,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Framework period 8 yrsends 1 Aug 2035 · starts 2 Aug 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The primary aim of the procurement is to establish a flexible framework which allows the Council to commission a range of supported housing and floating support services (including homeless street outreach) over a period of eight years.

Services will seek to achieve outcomes that will be codesigned with residents, but will broadly relate to tenancy sustainment, reducing homelessness, improving health and wellbeing, and achieving greater independence.

Services will be procured under the flexible framework based on presenting demand, available funding, and availability of suitable buildings.

This services framework is being divided into lots.

  • Lot 1 – Complex long-term supported living
  • Lot 2 – High support transitional supported accommodation
  • Lot 3 – Medium to low support transitional supported accommodation

Lot 4 – Floating support services (includes Homeless Street Outreach)

The flexible framework will create the potential to procure different or additional services in the future, recognising the borough’s changing demand for these service types.

When the framework is initially opened, there will be no minimum or maximum number of providers appointed to the framework.

The council reserves the right to award contracts via the framework with or without competition during the lifetime of the framework. Further details will be set out in the tender documentation.

Call-off contracts may extend beyond the end date of the framework agreement.

Call-off contracts from the framework agreement shall follow the terms of the framework agreement including how a call-off contract is concluded. How a call-off contract is concluded is explained within the invitation to tender documentation.

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 8 yrs
Contract period: 2 Aug 2027 – 1 Aug 2035 (8 yrs)
Delivery: London

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
i

How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “2425-0692 Supported Housing and Floating Support Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Islington Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up

Islington Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerIslington Council · all categories
The marketHealth and social work services (CPV 85) · Greater London
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 7 known-size awards · market: division 85 · Greater London, n=208
100%75%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 9 of 10 known-location awards · market: division 85 · Greater London, n=302
90%40%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: division 85 · Greater London, n=32
—88 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 88 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 0 of 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 85 · Greater London, n=64
0%34%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer11 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market101 lots with bid counts · division 85 · Greater London
5% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 5%
Buyer: 0 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 101 lots with published bid counts.
2–39% / 10%
Buyer: 1 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 101 lots with published bid counts.
4–60% / 18%
Buyer: 0 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 18 of 101 lots with published bid counts.
7+91% / 67%
Buyer: 10 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 68 of 101 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.

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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 8596 monthsPublished estimate£200m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 101 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet5% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 101 similar lots
1 bid5%
5 of 101 similar past lots received 1 bid (5%).
2–310%
10 of 101 similar past lots received 2–3 (10%).
4–618%
18 of 101 similar past lots received 4–6 (18%).
7+67%
68 of 101 similar past lots received 7+ (67%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 11 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Single Homeless ProjectEarlier contract2324-0400 Housing Related Floating Support Servicenotice published Oct 2025Housing Related Floating Support Service£1.2mMatched as the earlier contract

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
23 Sept 2026, 11:41 BST
Last source update
23 Sept 2026, 11:41 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090047
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
London (UKI)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07786a Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

23 Sept 2026 → 2 Aug 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published33 days ago
    23 Sept 2026, 11:41 BST
  2. Market engagement26 days ago
    30 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST

    This Notice is for informational purposes only and is not a formal invitation to tender. Its aim is to enhance transparency and competition for the upcoming tender notice. All details provided here may be updated or changed in the final tender notice. The Authority reserves the right to cancel, postpone, suspend or abort the procurement at any stage. The issue of this notice in no way commits the Authority to commence a procurement process.

    Suppliers interested in this opportunity are invited to attend a virtual information and engagement session to be held on Microsoft Teams on Wednesday 30 September 2026, at 13:30.

    For further information please register your interest via the London Tenders Portal.

    Link: procontract.due-north.com/Supplier/Advert/View ↗

    Shortly after you have expressed interest, you will receive a second email containing a link for the event.

  3. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 278 days
    2 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    23 Sept 2026, 11:41 BST
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Islington Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PBMD-2513-CWJJ Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, London, London, N1 2UDContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure