Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 12 Oct 2026, 16:26 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Insurance and Related Services to Cardiff Community Housing Association Limited

Authority: Cardiff Community Housing Association (CCHA) (Housing)·On behalf of: YMCA Saint Pauls Group

ServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£1,898,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 30 Oct 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 30 Jun 2030 · up to 30 Jun 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Jul 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Insurance and related services for Property, legal liability and other general (non-life) insurable risks, as required by Cardiff Community Housing Association. The financial ability to deliver the programme, including Insurers with a minimum rating of ‘BBB’ from standard and poor, ‘B++’ from A M best, or an equivalent rating by an independent and reputable credit rating agency and approved by the bidder’s market security committee. In the case of any rating less than A-, the contracting authority will evaluate and accept the nominated insurer(s) at its sole discretion, subject to disclosure and acceptance prior to the ITT bid deadline of the bidder’s market security committee’s latest report, including written recommendation from the bidder’s market security committee.

CPV: Insurance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrs
Contract period: 1 Jul 2027 – 30 Jun 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 30 Jun 2032 with extensions
Delivery: Wales
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 Cardiff Community Housing Association (CCHA) buys Insurance services (CPV 6651), and who usually turns up

Cardiff Community Housing Association (CCHA)’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 bidWhat 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 6651 · Wales (Cymru), n=21
3 of 40%

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 Wales (Cymru).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 6651 · Wales (Cymru), n=15
0 of 10%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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: 5 decided notices · market: CPV 6651 · UK-wide, n=99
39 days64 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 39 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 · Wales (Cymru), n=9
17%11%

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 buyer5 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market17 lots with bid counts · CPV 6651 · Wales (Cymru)
6% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 6%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 17 lots with published bid counts.
2–30% / 82%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 14 of 17 lots with published bid counts.
4–660% / 12%
Buyer: 3 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 17 lots with published bid counts.
7+40% / 0%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 17 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 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£1.9m
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 17 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet6% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 17 similar lots
1 bid6%
1 of 17 similar past lots received 1 bid (6%).
2–382%
14 of 17 similar past lots received 2–3 (82%).
4–612%
2 of 17 similar past lots received 4–6 (12%).
7+0%
0 of 17 similar past lots received 7+ (0%).
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 £1.9m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
12 Oct 2026, 16:26 BST
Last source update
12 Oct 2026, 16:26 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-096252
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Insurance services
Delivery area
Wales (UKL)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0785f2 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

12 Oct 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published17 days ago
    12 Oct 2026, 16:26 BST
  2. Today
    29 Oct 2026
  3. Market engagementin 8h
    29 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Cardiff Community Housing Association has produced a PME Summary Presentation Document which provides an introduction to their organisation and risk profile generally. Prospective bidders are invited to share questions in respect of the information shared by Wednesday 21st October 2026. If you would like receive a copy of this presentation, please email procurement@gibbslaidler.co.uk

  4. Tender notice expectedin 32h
    30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 244 days
    1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    12 Oct 2026, 16:26 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

Cardiff Community Housing Association Limited

Contracting authorityPublic undertakingWelsh devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PTQR-5447-WPQL Tolven Court, Dowlais Road, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 5LQContact name, email, phone

Other public bodies

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure