Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 21 May 2026, 17:01 BST

Official UK procurement notice

1411 - MTVH - Repairs and Voids

Authority: Metropolitan Housing Trust (Housing)·On behalf of: Echelon Consultancy

WorksAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£2,200,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 3 Aug 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 27 Sept 2032 · up to 28 Sept 2037 with extensions · starts 28 Sept 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) seeks to appoint a suitably experienced contractor to deliver a responsive repairs and void property reinstatement service across its East Anglia housing stock, following expiry of the incumbent contract. The service will include emergency, urgent and routine responsive repairs, void reinstatement, and disrepair works. The contract will be awarded on a Most Advantageous Tender (MAT) basis for an initial term of five years, with a single five-year extension option.

CPV: Asbestos removal services · Asbestos-removal work · Bathrooms construction work · Building completion work · Building installation work · Construction work · Decoration work · Electrical installation work · Floor and wall covering work · Installation of fitted kitchens · Joinery and carpentry installation work · Plastering work · +3 more

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrsSME
Contract period: 28 Sept 2027 – 27 Sept 2032 (5 yrs) · up to 28 Sept 2037 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME 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 Metropolitan Housing Trust buys Other building completion work (CPV 4545), and who usually turns up

Metropolitan Housing Trust’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: Other building completion work (CPV 4545) →

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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 buyerMetropolitan Housing Trust · division 45
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: 3 of 6 known-size awards · market: CPV 4545 · UK-wide, n=471
50%78%

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 16 known-location awards · market: CPV 4545 · UK-wide, n=482
44%70%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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: no decision dates published · market: CPV 4545 · UK-wide, n=91
—33 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 33 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.

Both shares are minimums: 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 2 of 23 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4545 · UK-wide, n=705
9%23%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market135 lots with bid counts · CPV 4545 · UK-wide
8% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 8%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 11 of 135 lots with published bid counts.
2–340% / 16%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 22 of 135 lots with published bid counts.
4–60% / 30%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 40 of 135 lots with published bid counts.
7+60% / 46%
Buyer: 3 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 62 of 135 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with estimate and award, 5 needed · broad CPV 45
The market139 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4545 · UK-wide
40% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate40%
Market: 55 of 139 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%32%
Market: 44 of 139 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate29%
Market: 40 of 139 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 454260 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£2.2m

This lot is listed as CPV 4542. The table above uses the notice category.

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 94 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet7% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 94 similar lots
1 bid7%
7 of 94 similar past lots received 1 bid (7%).
2–315%
14 of 94 similar past lots received 2–3 (15%).
4–623%
22 of 94 similar past lots received 4–6 (23%).
7+54%
51 of 94 similar past lots received 7+ (54%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 7 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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £2.2m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
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
21 May 2026, 17:01 BST
Last source update
22 May 2026, 12:58 BST
Authority reference
1411
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047829
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Asbestos removal servicesAsbestos-removal workBathrooms construction workBuilding completion workBuilding installation workConstruction workDecoration workElectrical installation workFloor and wall covering workInstallation of fitted kitchens
+5 moreJoinery and carpentry installation workPlastering work
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069ff7 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

21 May 2026 → 28 Sept 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published157 days ago
    21 May 2026, 17:01 BST
  2. Market engagement130 days ago
    17 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST

    This preliminary market engagement event takes the form of a questionnaire that has been designed by MTVH and Echelon Consultancy to gather information on potential bidder approaches to the procurement process, operational delivery, and specifics around MTVH's stock profile. The questionnaire is being run through a platform called 'Slido' and is available to answer at the link below: app.sli.do/event/ksvEWxC6etcYpr… ↗

  3. Tender notice expected83 days ago
    3 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    26 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 337 days
    28 Sept 2027

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 May 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    21 May 2026, 17:01 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    22 May 2026, 12:58 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Inclusion of further information regarding the PME event and participation.

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

2 public bodies on the notice

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PMCL-4972-LYCY Waterfront House, Beeston, East Midlands, NG9 1LAContact email

Other public bodies

  • Echelon ConsultancyProcess contact pointProcuring entityProcurement consultancy appointed to carry out the procurement process.GB-PPON: PWDT-5224-RGBZ St Albans, East of EnglandContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure