Official UK procurement notice
Westminster Complex Needs Assessment Centre
Authority: Westminster City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWestminster City Council (WCC) is undertaking market engagement and invites interested parties to complete a Market Sounding Questionnaire. The purpose of this exercise is to gather feedback from the market regarding the potential commissioning of a Complex Needs Assessment Centre for individuals experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage.
This Market Sounding Questionnaire is not a call for tenders or a pre-qualification exercise. The purpose of the questionnaire is to gain insight into the market and understand the level of interest, expertise, and capacity to deliver an assessment-focused service for people with complex needs. The Authority is seeking feedback from organisations that may be able to provide accommodation alongside assessment and support services, or deliver assessment and support services in partnership with a suitable accommodation provider.
The proposed Complex Needs Assessment Centre would provide a safe and structured environment for individuals experiencing rough sleeping and homelessness who present with multiple and intersecting support needs, including mental health issues, substance misuse, physical health conditions, offending histories, and other forms of social exclusion. Operating through a trauma-informed and person-centred approach, the service would provide comprehensive assessment, stabilisation, triage and short-term intervention to identify the most appropriate pathway for each individual.
A key function of the Centre would be to undertake holistic assessments and coordinate multi-agency input to determine an individual's housing, support, health and social care needs. The service would work to reconnect service users with existing support networks, local authority areas where appropriate, specialist services, and sustainable accommodation options. Through effective triage and intensive case coordination, the Centre would support individuals to move swiftly into the most suitable accommodation and support pathway, reducing rough sleeping, repeat homelessness, and unsuccessful placements.
The Centre would act as a key gateway within Westminster's homelessness system, supporting informed decision-making, improving access to services, and ensuring that individuals with complex needs receive the right intervention at the right time. The service would work closely with statutory and voluntary sector partners to facilitate onward moves, strengthen partnership working, and improve outcomes for people experiencing multiple disadvantage.
To inform its commissioning strategy, Westminster City Council is seeking market feedback through this questionnaire. The information gathered will help the Authority understand the market's capability and capacity to deliver a Complex Needs Assessment Centre, including accommodation provision where applicable, assessment and triage functions, reconnection activity, partnership models, workforce requirements, and approaches to supporting individuals with multiple disadvantage.
The Council would be seeking a contract of a minimum of three years with an option to extend for up to two years.
Value — Annual value £897,139, initial period £2,691,416 and for full contract period £4,485,693
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Westminster City Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Westminster 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.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning. Small firms win more of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 60% against 42%, n=57.
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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 Greater London.
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. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 79% against 60%, n=48.
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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 146 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid33% / 26%
2–337% / 33%
4–626% / 25%
7+4% / 16%
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 estimate26% / 37%
Within ±2%71% / 55%
Above estimate3% / 8%
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See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 85Published estimate£4.5m
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.
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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 334 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid26%
2–333%
4–625%
7+16%
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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 done similar work for this buyer.
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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?
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- 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
- 9 Oct 2026, 11:36 BST
- Last source update
- 9 Oct 2026, 11:36 BST
- Authority reference
PRJ_31287- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095578- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078490Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
9 Oct 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published18 days ago9 Oct 2026, 11:36 BST
- Market engagement18h ago26 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
WCC plans to finalise the commissioning strategy in autumn 2026. It is envisaged that any potential contract(s) will commence in July 2027. All dates represent indicative timeframes only and may be subject to change.
This questionnaire will not form part of any potential future formal procurement process. All responses are to be submitted via Jaggaer no later than Monday 26th October 2026.
All responses received by this date will be considered but will not bind the Authority to any particular commissioning or potential procurement approach. WCC reserve the right to not review or consider any responses received after the submission date.
Where landlords or support providers have suitable accommodation, or confirm they would be able to have such accommodation by 1 July 2027, the Authority may arrange a follow-up meeting to discuss the delivery model and a potential future contract.
Opportunity can be accessed at wcc.ukp.app.jaggaer.com ↗
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 44 days10 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 246 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Oct 2026, 11:36 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
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- No contract published
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- 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