Official UK procurement notice
Safety and Support Services for Temporary Accommodation, Emergency Response and Site Stabilisation
Authority: Manchester City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSafety and Support Services for Temporary Accommodation, Emergency Response and Site Stabilisation.
The Council currently provides a range of temporary accommodation services across Manchester for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Many residents accommodated within these services may have experienced trauma, poor mental health, substance use, domestic abuse, housing instability, or other complex circumstances that require a flexible, sensitive and supportive approach.
To support the effective management of these services, the Council commissions Safety and Support Services across its temporary accommodation portfolio. The service plays an important role in maintaining safe and secure environments, supporting resident wellbeing, managing risks, responding to incidents and contributing to the day-to-day operation of accommodation services.
The Council is using the e-business portal known as the Chest. Applicants will need to register their details at the following link www.the-chest.org.uk ↗ . Once registered, applicants will be emailed a log-in and password which will allow them to gain access to the documentation relating to this Preliminary Market Engagement.
Manchester City Council is conducting a preliminary market engagement exercise to seek feedback from the market on the proposed Safety and Support Services for Temporary Accommodation, Emergency Response and Site Stabilisation. The exercise will assist the Council gather insights in advance of a potential future procurement. Please note this is not a call for competition and Manchester City Council reserves the right not to proceed to procurement.
We would like to invite you to complete and submit the ‘Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire - Safety and Support Services for Temporary Accommodation, Emergency Response and Site Stabilisation’ doc via the E-Procurement platform, CHEST.
Link to engagement: procontract.due-north.com/Procurer/Advert/View ↗
CPV: Residential health facilities services · Security services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Manchester City Council buys Security services (CPV 7971), and who usually turns up
Manchester 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: Security services (CPV 7971) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
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 North West England.
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 96 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.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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?
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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 bid13% / 16%
2–350% / 16%
4–613% / 5%
7+25% / 63%
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 estimate33% / 38%
Within ±2%33% / 25%
Above estimate33% / 38%
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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 8514Published estimate£15m
This lot is listed as CPV 8514. The table above uses the notice category.
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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 12 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–342%
4–633%
7+17%
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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.
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.
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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.
- 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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Sept 2026, 14:14 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Sept 2026, 14:20 BST
- Authority reference
P-1218- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-089207- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07768aFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published36 days ago21 Sept 2026, 14:14 BST
- Market engagement18 days ago10 Oct 2026, 00:59 BST
Format of Engagement
The Preliminary Market Engagement exercise will be conducted through a questionnaire issued via The Chest e-procurement portal. Interested organisations are invited to review the accompanying Preliminary Market Engagement Brief and Questionnaire and provide feedback on the proposed service requirements, lot structure and delivery model.
Next Steps
To participate in the Preliminary Market Engagement, please submit the Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire - Safety and Support Services for Temporary Accommodation, Emergency Response and Site Stabilisation doc by 11am 9 October 2026.
Organisations that submit a completed questionnaire will be invited to attend a Market Engagement Event, which will take place on 22 October 2026 in the afternoon via Microsoft Teams. The event will provide an overview of the proposed service, share key findings from the market engagement exercise, and offer an opportunity to discuss feedback received from interested organisations. An invitation and Teams joining link will be sent to the email address provided in the questionnaire following submission of a response.
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 22 days19 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 154 days1 Apr 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 Sept 2026- Pipeline notice published21 Sept 2026, 14:14 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Sept 2026, 14:20 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