Official UK procurement notice
PAN3663 - Single Homeless Support Services & Supported Accommodation
Authority: Leicester City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSupport for individuals who are in need of housing-related support in a supported housing. The funding is primarily focussed on single homelessness prevention and relief to support a reduction in rough sleeping, but with some degree of flexibility to support other vulnerable groups where necessary. To help people sustain their accommodation, build independence, and access the additional support they may need as they move on from homelessness services. Many individuals moving into independent living continue to face significant challenges and may require ongoing practical, social, or wellbeing support.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Leicester City Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Leicester City Council’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: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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 East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 52 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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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.
1 bid0% / 18%
2–350% / 34%
4–617% / 24%
7+33% / 24%
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.
Below estimate29% / 33%
Within ±2%71% / 59%
Above estimate0% / 8%
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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.
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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 85Published estimate£5.3m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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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 213 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–334%
4–624%
7+24%
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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.
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.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Centennial Property Limited, t/a Housing NetworkEarlier contract | PAN2917 - Accommodation-Based Support for Singles and Childless Couplesnotice published Jun 2024 | — | £175k | 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.
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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.
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What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
41% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
41% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (41% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
PAN2917 - Accommodation-Based Support for Singles and Childless Couples — held by Centennial Property Limited, t/a Housing Network and Centennial Property Limited, t/a Housing Network (+1 more); no contract end date published.
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
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 5 Oct 2026, 15:00 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Oct 2026, 15:25 BST
- Authority reference
PAN3663- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-093930- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0780f0Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Oct 2026 → 1 Feb 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published21 days ago5 Oct 2026, 15:00 BST
- Market engagement10 days ago16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Leicester City Council ('the Council') would like to seek expressions of interest from organisations that feel they could provide meaningful support to this cohort. The work we can do together will make a direct contribution to the Government's national ambition to end homelessness and halve rough sleeping by the end of this Parliament. This makes it an incredibly exciting and meaningful opportunity to be part of a service that is helping to deliver real and lasting change for some of the most vulnerable people in our communities. I take this opportunity to thank all partner organisations for their continued support to people experiencing homelessness and your efforts are making a genuine difference to people's lives, your professionalism, compassion, and perseverance are greatly appreciated and are fundamental to achieving our shared goals.
Preference to be given to accommodation-based support proposals. If this funding is not fully utilised this may be used to fund 'successful' proposals submitted for lot 1 & 2.
This project will be divided into the below Lots:
- Lot 1: Generic resettlement support (not tied to accommodation).
- Lot 2: Specialised resettlement support services (for women/minority ethnic communities, refugees & migrants/young people/peer support).
- Lot 3: Accommodation-based housing related support.
This soft market testing exercise is intended to inform the development of a future procurement strategy and does not constitute a formal tender process.
At this stage, it is a Pre-Market Engagement only and Not A CALL FOR COMPETITION.
Pre-Market Engagement questionnaire can be accessed in the link below:
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 7 days3 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 96 days1 Feb 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 5 Oct 2026- Pipeline notice published5 Oct 2026, 15:00 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Oct 2026, 15:25 BSTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender