Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 1 Oct 2025, 16:57 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Office Catering Services · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: Citizen Housing Group Ltd (Charity / VCSE)

ServicesBelow thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 30 Sept 2027 · up to 30 Sept 2028 with extensions · starts 1 Oct 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Citizen are looking to gather information on a potential upcoming procurement exercise for catering services in an office environment. With this notice Citizen are looking to see if there are local SME providers for this service as a form of pre-market engagement and information gathering.

The services would include providing an internal canteen / catering facility to serve our employees using the office space.

The Citizen head-office is based in the West Midlands at the Birmingham Business Park in Solihull.

This project is at its very early inception and have limited details to share at this moment, but interested parties are invited to contact our Procurement team on Procurement@citizenhousing.org.uk.

CPV: Canteen and catering services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 1 yrSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Oct 2026 – 30 Sept 2027 (1 yr) · up to 30 Sept 2028 with extensions
Delivery: West MidlandsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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 Oct 2025, 16:57 BST
Last source update
1 Oct 2025, 16:57 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-061490
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Canteen and catering services
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05a63c Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

1 Oct 2025 → 1 Oct 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published391 days ago
    1 Oct 2025, 16:57 BST
  2. Market engagement378 days ago
    14 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST

    Please see scope for details.

  3. Contract starts27 days ago
    1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    1 Oct 2025, 16:57 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

Citizen Housing Group Ltd

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-CHC: 8181 · GB-PPON: PWJN-9145-YTML 4040 Lakeside, Birmingham, West Midlands, B377YNContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure