Official UK procurement notice
Hotel and other nightly paid accommodation for use as emergency accommodation for homeless households
Authority: North Hertfordshire District Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth Hertfordshire District Council is undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement in relation to a proposed two-year, non-exclusive, multi-supplier arrangement for nightly-paid emergency and temporary accommodation for homeless households. Demand is variable and placements may be required on the same day or outside normal working hours. The current planning assumption is approximately £250,000 aggregate expenditure per year for two years, with no guaranteed volume or spend for any supplier. This exercise is not a tender and responses will not be scored or used to pre-qualify suppliers. The Council is seeking practical feedback to inform the final specification, pricing mechanism, contractual terms and booking process.
All responses must be submitted via the Council’s e-tendering portal, ‘In-Tend,’ accessible at supplier.in-tend.co.uk/supplyhertfordshire/… ↗. For technical assistance, contact the In-Tend Helpdesk at 0845 557 8079 or email support@in-tend.com.
CPV: Hotel accommodation services · Hotel services · Letting services of short-stay furnished accommodation · Services provided by bed and breakfast establishments
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How North Hertfordshire District Council buys Letting services of short-stay furnished accommodation (CPV 5525), and who usually turns up
North Hertfordshire District Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Letting services of short-stay furnished accommodation (CPV 5525) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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 East of England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 67 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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.
1 bid7%
2–334%
4–639%
7+20%
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.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate14%
Within ±2%29%
Above estimate57%
Assess each lot i
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.
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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 55Published estimate£500k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 55. The comparison uses that group.
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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 56 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid7%
2–334%
4–639%
7+20%
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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.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Welcome Break LtdEarlier contract | Emergency hotel and nightly-paid temporary accommodation for homeless applicants IIstarted May 2026 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Luton Hotel Residence (Anacreonte Properties Ltd)Earlier contract | Emergency hotel and nightly-paid temporary accommodation for homeless applicants IIstarted May 2026 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Redwings LodgeEarlier contract | Emergency hotel and nightly-paid temporary accommodation for homeless applicants IIstarted May 2026 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Premier Inn Hotels LtdEarlier contract | Emergency hotel and nightly-paid temporary accommodation for homeless applicants IIstarted May 2026 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Stef and PhilipsEarlier contract | Emergency hotel and nightly-paid temporary accommodation for homeless applicants IIstarted May 2026 | — | — | Matched 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.
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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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
57% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
57% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (57% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Emergency hotel and nightly-paid temporary accommodation for homeless applicants II, winner not published; no contract end date published.
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 1 Oct 2026, 15:19 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Oct 2026, 15:09 BST
- Authority reference
NHDC01131137- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-094352- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077ed7Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
1 Oct 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published27 days ago1 Oct 2026, 15:19 BST
- Latest notice published22 days ago6 Oct 2026, 15:09 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 9 days6 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
North Herts Council will undertake Preliminary Market Engagement through a combination of a written supplier questionnaire and two online supplier engagement sessions.
- Supplier questionnaire
Interested suppliers are invited to review the Preliminary Market Engagement document and complete the questionnaire available through the Supply Hertfordshire/In-Tend portal under procurement reference NHDC01131137.
The questionnaire seeks practical feedback on matters including accommodation type and geographical coverage, same-day availability, household requirements, pricing and rate mechanisms, booking and cancellation arrangements, contractual risks, supplier participation barriers and the proposed two-year multi-supplier arrangement.
Brief and practical responses are welcomed. This is not a tender and responses will not be scored or used to pre-qualify suppliers.
- Online supplier engagement sessions
The Council will also hold two online engagement sessions for existing and prospective accommodation providers. These sessions will:
- explain the Council's emergency and temporary accommodation requirement and how placements currently operate;
- explain the proposed commercial/procurement approach and the issues on which the Council is seeking market feedback;
- provide suppliers with an opportunity to comment on the proposed arrangements, raise concerns and suggest alternative or improved approaches;
- provide practical guidance on registering on the Supply Hertfordshire/In-Tend portal, locating the opportunity and participating in the subsequent procurement process; and
- include a short legal and governance overview explaining the relevant statutory homelessness and procurement context and the principal contractual considerations for the proposed arrangement.
The sessions will be interactive and the Council particularly welcomes feedback on anything that may make participation difficult for smaller, independent or non-traditional public-sector suppliers.
Details of the online sessions, including joining instructions, will be provided through the Supply Hertfordshire/In-Tend portal.
Suppliers may participate in the questionnaire, the online sessions, or both. Participation in the PME is voluntary and will not confer any preference or advantage in the subsequent tender.
Material non-confidential information arising from the engagement that is relevant to the future procurement will be reflected appropriately in the final procurement documents.
The deadline for written PME responses is 6 November 2026.
- Tender notice expectedin 34 days1 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 123 days1 Mar 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 1 Oct 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published1 Oct 2026, 15:19 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Oct 2026, 15:09 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Updated estimated date of tender notice publication and end date for engagement
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender