Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 16 Apr 2026, 13:45 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Insurance and related services for Property, legal liability and other general (non-life) insurable risks, as required by Red Kite Community Housing Limited

Authority: Red Kite Community Housing (Public body)·On behalf of: YMCA Saint Pauls Group

ServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£4,325,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 23 Apr 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 11 Mar 2030 · up to 11 Mar 2032 with extensions · starts 12 Mar 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The scope of the Contract includes the provision of insurance cover, brokerage services (where applicable), professional advice, claims management and loss control services for property, legal liabilities and other general insurances as required by Red Kite Community Housing Limited for a period of three years commencing 12.03.2027, with the option to extend by up to a further two years at Red Kite Community Housing Limited’s sole discretion. Bids are invited from suitably qualified and experienced insurance brokers and direct insurers. The Contract will follow the Competitive Flexible Procedure with bidders being selected on the basis of the responses contained in the pre qualifying PSQ. Bidders will be expected have the capability, capacity, financial and economic standing and experience to perform the contract. PSQs must be completed in full with all relevant information supplied. The Contract will be awarded on the basis of Most Economically Advantageous Tender, with specific evaluation criteria detailed within the Invitation To Tender and contract documents.

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CPV: Damage or loss insurance services · Financial and insurance services · General liability insurance services · Legal insurance and all-risk insurance services · Liability insurance services · Motor vehicle insurance services · Professional liability insurance services · Property insurance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Red Kite Community Housing buys Insurance services (CPV 6651), and who usually turns up

Red Kite Community Housing’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: Insurance services (CPV 6651) →

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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 buyerRed Kite Community Housing · all categories
The marketInsurance services (CPV 6651) · UK-wide
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: 8 of 8 known-size awards · market: CPV 6651 · UK-wide, n=819
100%2%

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 3 known-location awards · market: CPV 6651 · UK-wide, n=513
2 of 342%

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 6651 · UK-wide, n=99
—64 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 64 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 1 of 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 6651 · UK-wide, n=455
17%33%

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 buyer9 lots with bid counts · all categories
22% had one bid
The market702 lots with bid counts · CPV 6651 · UK-wide
28% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid22% / 28%
Buyer: 2 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 194 of 702 lots with published bid counts.
2–356% / 45%
Buyer: 5 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 317 of 702 lots with published bid counts.
4–622% / 26%
Buyer: 2 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 183 of 702 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 1%
Buyer: 0 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 702 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.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 4 lots with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market247 lots with estimate and award · CPV 6651 · UK-wide
44% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate44%
Market: 108 of 247 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%33%
Market: 82 of 247 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate23%
Market: 57 of 247 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 665136 monthsPublished estimate£4.3m
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 702 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet28% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 702 similar lots
1 bid28%
194 of 702 similar past lots received 1 bid (28%).
2–345%
317 of 702 similar past lots received 2–3 (45%).
4–626%
183 of 702 similar past lots received 4–6 (26%).
7+1%
8 of 702 similar past lots received 7+ (1%).
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 model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £4.3m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance Brokers LtdEarlier contractProvision of Insurance and related services to Red Kite Community Housingended Mar 2025Insurance and related services associated with items of Engineering plant and a programme of Engineering inspections—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.

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
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

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

45% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (45% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Provision of Insurance and related services to Red Kite Community Housing — held by Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance Brokers Ltd and Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance Brokers Ltd (+1 more); the published contract ends 11 Mar 2025.

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
16 Apr 2026, 13:45 BST
Last source update
16 Apr 2026, 13:45 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-034712
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Damage or loss insurance servicesFinancial and insurance servicesGeneral liability insurance servicesLegal insurance and all-risk insurance servicesLiability insurance servicesMotor vehicle insurance servicesProfessional liability insurance servicesProperty insurance services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06843b Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

16 Apr 2026 → 12 Mar 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published196 days ago
    16 Apr 2026, 13:45 BST
  2. Market engagement189 days ago
    22 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST

    Pre-Market Engagement meetings will be held via Microsoft Teams. Please contact charles.mullen@gibbslaidler.co.uk to organise a meeting. We look forward to speaking with you.

  3. Tender notice expected188 days ago
    23 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    29 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 133 days
    12 Mar 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    16 Apr 2026, 13:45 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

3 public bodies on the notice

Red Kite Community Housing imited

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PQNL-4784-QYHP Hampden Court, Frederick Place,, High Wycombe,, South East, HP11 1JUContact name, email, phone

Other public bodies

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure