Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 27 Nov 2025, 13:44 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Radon Inspection Services · UK public procurement 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 2 yrsends 1 Apr 2028 · up to 1 Apr 2030 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Citizen are conducting preliminary market engagement to help understand how to best procure radon monitoring services for properties across our group.

High level requirements will be full responsibility engaging and booking appointments with customers, supplying and installing radon monitoring devices, collection after 3-months, sending to the lab and then issuing formal PDF certificates back to Citizen. This will be approximately 400 properties per annum, but is subject to change.

CPV: Toxic substances monitoring services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2026 – 1 Apr 2028 (2 yrs) · up to 1 Apr 2030 with extensions
Delivery: West MidlandsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
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 Citizen Housing Group Ltd buys Pollutants tracking and monitoring and rehabilitation services (CPV 9074), and who usually turns up

Citizen Housing Group Ltd’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: Pollutants tracking and monitoring and rehabilitation services (CPV 9074) →

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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 buyerCitizen Housing Group Ltd · 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: 24 of 41 known-size awards · market: CPV 9074 · UK-wide, n=13
59%77%

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 West Midlands.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 32 of 49 known-location awards · market: division 90 · West Midlands, n=328
65%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: 8 decided notices · market: division 90 · West Midlands, n=98
42 days52 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.

The buyer’s 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: at least 33 of 56 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 9074 · UK-wide, n=16
59%81%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

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 buyer11 lots with bid counts · all categories
9% had one bid
The market177 lots with bid counts · division 90 · West Midlands
17% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid9% / 17%
Buyer: 1 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 30 of 177 lots with published bid counts.
2–318% / 17%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 30 of 177 lots with published bid counts.
4–636% / 37%
Buyer: 4 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 66 of 177 lots with published bid counts.
7+36% / 29%
Buyer: 4 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 51 of 177 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.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with estimate and award · all categories
80% below estimate
The market131 lots with estimate and award · division 90 · West Midlands
32% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate80% / 32%
Buyer: 4 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 42 of 131 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%20% / 43%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 56 of 131 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 25%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 33 of 131 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 907424 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
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 177 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet17% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 177 similar lots
1 bid17%
30 of 177 similar past lots received 1 bid (17%).
2–317%
30 of 177 similar past lots received 2–3 (17%).
4–637%
66 of 177 similar past lots received 4–6 (37%).
7+29%
51 of 177 similar past lots received 7+ (29%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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
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
27 Nov 2025, 13:44 GMT
Last source update
27 Nov 2025, 13:44 GMT
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-077690
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Toxic substances monitoring services
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ea2b Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

27 Nov 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published333 days ago
    27 Nov 2025, 13:44 GMT
  2. Market engagement319 days ago
    11 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT

    Please contact procurement@citizenhousing.org.uk to register interest. Citizen will collate responses and will use to assist deciding the route to market.

    This notice is not a call for tender and does not guarentee a tender process. This notice will act as an information gathering exercise.

  3. Contract starts209 days ago
    1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    27 Nov 2025, 13:44 GMT
    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