Official UK procurement notice
Supply of Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) Installation and Associated Works
Authority: Eastlight Community Homes (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEastlight Housing is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced contractor to deliver Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) installation and associated works across its housing portfolio.
The service will include the survey, design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of ASHP systems, together with associated heating, plumbing and electrical works. The contractor will also be responsible for resident liaison, certification, handover, aftercare and any required maintenance or remedial works.
The contract will support Eastlight’s wider decarbonisation, energy efficiency and carbon reduction objectives, ensuring installations are compliant, efficiently delivered and provide positive outcomes for residents.
CPV: Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning installation work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Eastlight Community Homes buys Plumbing and sanitary works (CPV 4533), and who usually turns up
Eastlight Community Homes’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: Plumbing and sanitary works (CPV 4533) →
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How often local firms win similar work.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East of 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.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 107 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid40% / 8%
2–30% / 26%
4–650% / 28%
7+10% / 38%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate43%
Within ±2%30%
Above estimate27%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 4533Published estimate£2.5m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid11%
2–323%
4–631%
7+35%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- 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
- 6 Oct 2026, 16:30 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Oct 2026, 16:30 BST
- Authority reference
EAST1067- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-094428- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078203Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
6 Oct 2026 → 1 Sept 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published22 days ago6 Oct 2026, 16:30 BST
- Market engagement8 days ago20 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Eastlight Community Homes invites experienced heating, renewable energy and retrofit contractors to participate in a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise for an upcoming procurement opportunity.
Eastlight is seeking feedback from the market to help shape the future delivery of Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) installation and associated services across its housing portfolio, supporting its sustainability objectives and carbon reduction targets.
Services in Scope
The proposed contract is expected to include:
•Property surveys and suitability assessments
•Design and specification of Air Source Heat Pump systems
•Installation and commissioning of ASHP systems
•Heating system alterations and upgrades
•Associated electrical works
•Hot water cylinder installations and upgrades
•Removal and disposal of existing heating systems where required
•Resident liaison and access management
•Testing, certification and handover documentation
•Post-installation support, maintenance and defect rectification
•Performance monitoring and reporting
•PV and roofing Installations
•Removal and disposal of existing heating systems where required (this may include oil boilers)
Portfolio
The contract is expected to support decarbonisation works across Eastlight's housing portfolio, including:
•General needs housing
•Supported housing schemes
•Sheltered accommodation
•Houses, flats and maisonettes
•Properties located across Eastlight's operating area
•Mixture of VOID and occupied properties
Further details regarding property volumes, programme requirements and delivery timescales will be confirmed within the procurement documentation.
Invitation to Participate
Eastlight is inviting interested suppliers to complete a Market Engagement Survey to provide feedback on:
•Market capacity and capability
•Delivery models and contract structure
•Mobilisation expectations
•Supply chain considerations
•Resident engagement and customer experience
•Service standards and performance measures
•Carbon reduction and net zero objectives
•Digital reporting and asset management requirements
•Social value opportunities
•Innovation and industry best practice
•Risks and challenges affecting service delivery
Your feedback will help inform the future procurement strategy and service requirements. Participation in this exercise will not provide any supplier with an advantage in any future procurement process.
Who Should Participate?
We welcome responses from organisations with experience in:
•Air Source Heat Pump installation programmes
•Social housing decarbonisation projects
•SHDF, ECO4 and Warm Homes funded schemes
•PAS 2030 and PAS 2035 compliant retrofit works
•Renewable heating technologies
•Domestic heating and electrical installations
•Retrofit coordination and energy efficiency programmes
•Asset performance monitoring and reporting
•Someone that can interpret SAP data/calculations
How to Participate
Interested suppliers are requested to complete the Market Engagement Survey by 20 October 2026 using the Microsoft Forms link below.
MS Forms Survey Link:
Following evaluation of the responses received through this Market Engagement Survey, Eastlight reserves the right to determine the most suitable procurement route to market. Information gathered will be used to help shape the procurement strategy and future service delivery requirements.
Eastlight may also use the feedback received to inform the final specification, contract structure, service standards, performance measures, social value requirements and overall procurement approach.
- Today29 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 123 days1 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 306 days1 Sept 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Oct 2026, 16:30 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender