Housing Solutions: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Registered Society·Social housing register: Registered society·South East England·Berkshire·Central purchasing body on 5 of 9 notices
Official UK PPONPGDY-4627-RBZLWebsitehousingsolutions.co.uk ↗
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
10 awarded tenders, 26 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
45 Construction work5 procedures · 56%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances3 procedures · 33%44 Construction structures and materials3 procedures · 33%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 22%03 Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry1 procedures · 11%09 Petroleum, coal, oil and gas1 procedures · 11%14 Mining, basic metals and related products1 procedures · 11%24 Chemical products1 procedures · 11%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 9 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 89% (8 notices)
- Framework 11% (1 notices)
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
- Limited / restricted 44% (4 notices)
- Open 44% (4 notices)
- Selective 11% (1 notices)
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 9 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| National Merchant Buying Society Limited (NMBS) | 1 | 10% | 1 | 13 | 28 Apr 2026 |
| STARK BUILDING MATERIALS UK LIMITED | 1 | 10% | 1 | 11 | 28 Apr 2026 |
| Wolseley UK Limited | 1 | 10% | 1 | 9 | 28 Apr 2026 |
| Huws Gray Limited | 1 | 10% | 1 | 9 | 28 Apr 2026 |
| Travis Perkins Trading Company Limited | 1 | 10% | 1 | 9 | 28 Apr 2026 |
| City Plumbing Supplies Holdings Limited | 1 | 10% | 1 | 3 | 28 Apr 2026 |
| Marsh Ltd | 1 | 10% | 1 | 3 | 20 Aug 2025 |
| City Electrical Factors Limited | 1 | 10% | 1 | 2 | 28 Apr 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 10% of 10 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 26 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Housing Solutions - Supply and installation of Kitchens and Bathrooms | Kincraig Construction Limited | 19 Dec 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £5,200,000 ≈ £1.7m/yr |
| Supply and installation of Fire Doors | Gunfire Limited | 18 Dec 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £2,500,000 ≈ £833k/yr |
| Catering at The Birches | Sophie's catering | — | — | £1,000,000 † |
| Pitch Re-Roofing | M & J GROUP (CONSTRUCTION & ROOFING) LTD | — | — | £500,000 † |
| Internal Audit Services | Menzies LLP | — | — | £344,760 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 13 of 13 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Out of Hours Phone ServiceCall centre | Awarded / complete | 22 Jun 2026 | — |
| Catering at The BirchesCatering services for other enterprises or other institutions | Awarded / complete | 19 Jun 2026 | — |
| Supply and Delivery of Electrical productsAdditives for cements | Awarded / complete | 28 Apr 2026 | £1,420,000,000 |
| Internal Audit ServicesAccounting and auditing services | Awarded / complete | 28 Apr 2026 | — |
| Housing Solutions - Supply and installation of Kitchens and BathroomsArticles for the bathroom and kitchen | Awarded / complete | 25 Feb 2026 | £5,200,000 |
| Housing Solutions - Supply and installation of Fire DoorsFire doors | Awarded / complete | 19 Feb 2026 | £2,500,000 |
| Provision of Insurance and related services to Housing Solutions GroupContractor's all-risk insurance services | Awarded / complete | 20 Aug 2025 | — |
| Housing Solutions - Supply and installation of Kitchens and BathroomsBathrooms construction work | Planned | 22 May 2025 | £6,500,000 |
| Pitch Re-RoofingRoof-covering work | Awarded / complete | 19 Feb 2025 | £600,000 |
| Water HygieneConsulting services for water-supply and waste consultancy | Awarded / complete | 29 Aug 2024 | — |
| Fire Risk Assessment RectificationsFire-prevention installation works | Awarded / complete | 5 Jun 2024 | — |
| External audit servicesStatutory audit services | Open | 2 Nov 2023 | £360,000 |
| External audit servicesStatutory audit services | Planned | 13 Oct 2023 | £360,000 |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£16m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 27 award records on 8 procedures (12 to a single canonical supplier, 15 multi-supplier). 4 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 3 of 29 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (5 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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