Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 1 Apr 2026, 11:51 BST

Official UK procurement notice

MGN0239 - Systems Provider(s) for Housing Associations

Authority: Magna Housing (Public body)

GoodsAbove threshold
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£1pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Oct 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 10 yrsends 1 Apr 2037 · up to 1 Apr 2042 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

We are seeking new digital solutions across Housing, Finance, CRM, and HR that offer strong, modern functionality and can integrate seamlessly with one another. The goal is to adopt standard, out of the box processes rather than heavily customised systems, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and improved user experience across the organisation.

The desired platforms should:

•Housing: Provide end to end housing management including tenancy, maintenance, compliance, scheduling, and mobile capability, with integrated financial and HR linked features.

•Finance: Offer intuitive financial management, automated workflows, real time data and analytics, asset management, and seamless links to Housing, HR, procurement, and CRM systems.

•CRM: Deliver a single, accurate customer view, strong case management, integrated communications, appointment scheduling, and connectivity to Housing, Finance, and HR.

•HR: Support workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, learning, performance management, and analytics, with links to Finance, CRM, and Housing for workforce availability, payroll, and resource planning.

All solutions must support robust integration, including standard APIs and pre built connectors, to enable smooth data sharing across business areas. A single supplier delivering a unified platform is preferred, but Magna will consider multiple suppliers if necessary.

CPV: Administration software package · Customer Relation Management software package · Database and operating software package · Document management software package · Facilities management software package · Facilities management software package and software package suite · Financial analysis and accounting software package · Financial analysis software package · Financial systems software package · IT software package · Industry specific software package · Inventory management software package · +9 more

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Magna Housing buys Industry specific software package (CPV 4810), and who usually turns up

Magna 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: Industry specific software package (CPV 4810) →

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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 buyerMagna Housing · 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: 3 of 4 known-size awards · market: CPV 4810 · UK-wide, n=152
3 of 434%

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: 4 of 6 known-location awards · market: CPV 4810 · UK-wide, n=147
67%20%

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 4810 · UK-wide, n=14
—42 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 42 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 8 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4810 · UK-wide, n=284
13%71%

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 buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with bid counts, 5 needed · all categories
The market23 lots with bid counts · CPV 4810 · UK-wide
17% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid17%
Market: 4 of 23 lots with published bid counts.
2–335%
Market: 8 of 23 lots with published bid counts.
4–635%
Market: 8 of 23 lots with published bid counts.
7+13%
Market: 3 of 23 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: 1 lot with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market12 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4810 · UK-wide
75% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate75%
Market: 9 of 12 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%17%
Market: 2 of 12 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate8%
Market: 1 of 12 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 48120 monthsNo real estimate

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 48. The comparison uses that group.

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 379 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet15% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 379 similar lots
1 bid15%
58 of 379 similar past lots received 1 bid (15%).
2–331%
118 of 379 similar past lots received 2–3 (31%).
4–632%
120 of 379 similar past lots received 4–6 (32%).
7+22%
83 of 379 similar past lots received 7+ (22%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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 £1 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
Goods
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
1 Apr 2026, 11:51 BST
Last source update
1 Apr 2026, 11:51 BST
Authority reference
MGN0239
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-030287
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Administration software packageCustomer Relation Management software packageDatabase and operating software packageDocument management software packageFacilities management software packageFacilities management software package and software package suiteFinancial analysis and accounting software packageFinancial analysis software packageFinancial systems software packageIT software package
+11 moreIndustry specific software packageInventory management software package
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067a97 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

1 Apr 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published209 days ago
    1 Apr 2026, 11:51 BST
  2. Tender notice expected25 days ago
    1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
  3. Market engagement25 days ago
    1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST

    Speaking to suppliers in the market to understand what is available.

  4. Today
    26 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 156 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    1 Apr 2026, 11:51 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

Magna Housing Ltd

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJTT-7417-WYJG Everdene House, Triangle Industrial Estate, Poundbury Road, Dorchester, South West, DT1 2PJContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure