Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 6 Feb 2026, 16:05 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Housing 21 - Market Engagement - Housing Management System (HMS)

Authority: Housing 21 (Public body)

ServicesAbove threshold
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£0pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 1 Nov 2031 · up to 1 Nov 2036 with extensions · starts 2 Nov 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Housing 21 wishes to conduct a market engagement exercise to support specification development for our Housing Management System (HMS) requirement.

The aim is to improve how we bring essential resident and property information together to create a holistic view for front line colleagues as well as corporate teams to enable more effective operations and ultimately, an enhanced service for residents of Housing 21.

Housing 21’s devolved operating model provides personal presence in individual schemes; value of this to our residents is reflected in the feedback and survey results. To achieve this, local housing managers have much responsibility; particularly in a sector of increasing regulatory control. Potential HMS solutions should bring not only greater visibility of data to inform decisions but also increased intuitiveness and ease of use.

Please review the attached 'Housing Management System - Market Engagement Notice' for further detail.

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CPV: Software-related services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrs
Contract period: 2 Nov 2026 – 1 Nov 2031 (5 yrs) · up to 1 Nov 2036 with extensions
Delivery: UK
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Housing 21 buys Software-related services (CPV 7226), and who usually turns up

Housing 21’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: Software-related services (CPV 7226) →

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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 buyerHousing 21 · division 72
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: 3 of 4 known-size awards · market: CPV 7226 · UK-wide, n=572
3 of 433%

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 4 known-location awards · market: CPV 7226 · UK-wide, n=434
2 of 432%

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: CPV 7226 · UK-wide, n=43
—54 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 54 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.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 1 of 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7226 · UK-wide, n=907
17%75%

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

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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 buyer20 lots with bid counts · all categories
5% had one bid
The market74 lots with bid counts · CPV 7226 · UK-wide
27% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid5% / 27%
Buyer: 1 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 20 of 74 lots with published bid counts.
2–340% / 31%
Buyer: 8 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 23 of 74 lots with published bid counts.
4–625% / 20%
Buyer: 5 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 74 lots with published bid counts.
7+30% / 22%
Buyer: 6 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 16 of 74 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with estimate and award · all categories
40% below estimate
The market47 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7226 · UK-wide
57% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate40% / 57%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 27 of 47 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%60% / 23%
Buyer: 3 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 11 of 47 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 19%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 9 of 47 lots with an estimate and award.
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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 722660 monthsNo real estimate
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 74 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet27% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 74 similar lots
1 bid27%
20 of 74 similar past lots received 1 bid (27%).
2–331%
23 of 74 similar past lots received 2–3 (31%).
4–620%
15 of 74 similar past lots received 4–6 (20%).
7+22%
16 of 74 similar past lots received 7+ (22%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £0 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

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
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
6 Feb 2026, 16:05 GMT
Last source update
6 Feb 2026, 16:05 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-011113
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software-related services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-064a7f Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

6 Feb 2026 → 2 Nov 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published264 days ago
    6 Feb 2026, 16:05 GMT
  2. Market engagement239 days ago
    2 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Please refer to 'Housing Management System - Market Engagement Notice' document for further detail on the scope, response request and timetable of the market engagement process.

    Please note the contract term dates are an estimate and will not be confirmed until the tender notice is published.

  3. Today
    28 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 4 days
    2 Nov 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    6 Feb 2026, 16:05 GMT
    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

Housing 21

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PGTG-9145-PMNM Housing 21, 10th Floor Tricorn House, 51-53 Hagley Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B16 8TPContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure