Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 5 Oct 2026, 10:08 BST

Official UK procurement notice

London Borough of Newham Crisis Resilience Fund (CRF) Services

Authority: London Borough of Newham (Local council)

Dynamic marketServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£1,500,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 2 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Market period 2 yrs 1 moends 31 Mar 2029 · starts 1 Mar 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Newham’s wider Crisis Resilience Fund Programme will invest £1.5m for 27 months for community partners to deliver local preventative financial support aimed at reducing repeat financial crisis. The service will provide debt advice, benefits support and income maximisation, helping to prevent homelessness, alleviate financial hardship and reduce demand for more intensive Council services. Support will be delivered through accessible, culturally appropriate community settings and will include financial resilience training for residents, alongside capacity-building for frontline staff and volunteers to identify hardship, offer early intervention and make effective referrals. An open-access referral pathway will be established, enabling both self-referrals and referrals from community organisations and local services.

CPV: Community action programme

How this dynamic market works

From the published notice
Type
Dynamic market
Market period
2 yrs 1 mo from 1 Mar 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 2 yrs 1 mo
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 – 31 Mar 2029 (2 yrs 1 mo)
Delivery: London

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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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
  • “London Borough of Newham Crisis Resilience Fund (CRF) Services” is a dynamic market: 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 London Borough of Newham buys Social services (CPV 8532), and who usually turns up

London Borough of Newham’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Social services (CPV 8532) →

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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 buyerLondon Borough of Newham · all categories
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: 1 of 2 known-size awards · market: CPV 8532 · UK-wide, n=39
1 of 269%

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: 3 of 5 known-location awards · market: CPV 8532 · UK-wide, n=52
60%75%

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 procurements with awards; rival share unknown · market: CPV 8532 · UK-wide, n=14
—43%

Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.

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 buyerToo few to chart: 4 lots with bid counts, 5 needed · all categories
The market19 lots with bid counts · CPV 8532 · UK-wide
5% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid5%
Market: 1 of 19 lots with published bid counts.
2–321%
Market: 4 of 19 lots with published bid counts.
4–65%
Market: 1 of 19 lots with published bid counts.
7+68%
Market: 13 of 19 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 853225 monthsPublished estimate£1.5m
Expected competition
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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 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?
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
Dynamic market
Who may use this agreement
Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
5 Oct 2026, 10:08 BST
Last source update
5 Oct 2026, 10:08 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-093651
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Community action programme
Delivery area
London (UKI41)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078067 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Admission period ends
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Timeline

5 Oct 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published21 days ago
    5 Oct 2026, 10:08 BST
  2. Market engagement4 days ago
    22 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST

    It is intended that a market engagement event will provisionally be held for the 22nd of October 2026 and to be managed via EventBrite via this link

    www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/market-engagement-… ↗.

    The event will broadly cover:

    Specification consultation

    Procurement update

    Supplier engagement

    Delivery models proposed

  3. Today
    26 Oct 2026
  4. Tender notice expectedin 7 days
    2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 125 days
    1 Mar 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    5 Oct 2026, 10:08 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

London Borough of Newham

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PYBN-4422-TNXJ Newham Dockside, 1000 Dockside Road,, London,, London, E16 2QUContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure