Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 9 Jul 2026, 13:53 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Amberstone · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Town and Country Housing (Public body)

WorksAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£10,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 15 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yr 11 moends 29 Sept 2028 · starts 15 Nov 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This project seeks the delivery of a high-quality residential development that provides safe, sustainable, energy-efficient and low-maintenance homes designed for long-term occupation and management. The completed development must demonstrate excellence in design, construction quality and operational performance, whilst meeting all statutory requirements, planning obligations and Employer standards.

Tenderers are expected to provide a fully coordinated design and construction solution that delivers durable building fabric, efficient building services, robust fire and life safety measures, secure and accessible environments, and high standards of resident comfort and wellbeing. The development should be designed to minimise whole-life costs, maximise energy performance and support efficient maintenance and asset management throughout its operational life.

The completed homes shall provide attractive, functional and adaptable living environments with excellent thermal performance, acoustic separation, ventilation, daylight, storage and accessibility. Internal and external spaces should be designed to support modern living, promote resident wellbeing and create a positive sense of place.

The wider development shall deliver resilient infrastructure, effective drainage, reliable utility services, integrated digital connectivity, sustainable transport measures and high-quality landscaping, creating a safe and attractive environment for residents whilst reducing future maintenance liabilities.

Tenderers shall demonstrate how their proposals achieve these outcomes and provide a fully tested, commissioned and compliant development supported by all necessary approvals, certifications, warranties, operational information and training required for successful handover and long-term management.

CPV: Construction work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 1 yr 11 mo
Contract period: 15 Nov 2026 – 29 Sept 2028 (1 yr 11 mo)
Delivery: UK

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Town and Country Housing buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up

Town and Country Housing’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: Construction work (CPV 45) →

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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 buyerTown and Country Housing · all categories
The marketConstruction work (CPV 45) · UK-wide
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 3 known-size awards · market: division 45 · UK-wide, n=4,633
3 of 373%

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: 3 of 5 known-location awards · market: division 45 · UK-wide, n=5,454
60%69%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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: division 45 · UK-wide, n=1,231
—44 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 44 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.

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 1 of 4 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 45 · UK-wide, n=6,975
1 of 432%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with bid counts · all categories
20% had one bid
The market1,736 lots with bid counts · division 45 · UK-wide
12% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid20% / 12%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 204 of 1,736 lots with published bid counts.
2–320% / 27%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 473 of 1,736 lots with published bid counts.
4–60% / 30%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 528 of 1,736 lots with published bid counts.
7+60% / 31%
Buyer: 3 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 531 of 1,736 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with estimate and award · all categories
20% below estimate
The market1,392 lots with estimate and award · division 45 · UK-wide
42% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate20% / 42%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 585 of 1,392 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%80% / 31%
Buyer: 4 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 429 of 1,392 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 27%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 378 of 1,392 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 4523 monthsPublished estimate£10m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 45. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
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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 1,736 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet12% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 1,736 similar lots
1 bid12%
204 of 1,736 similar past lots received 1 bid (12%).
2–327%
473 of 1,736 similar past lots received 2–3 (27%).
4–630%
528 of 1,736 similar past lots received 4–6 (30%).
7+31%
531 of 1,736 similar past lots received 7+ (31%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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 £10m, 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
9 Jul 2026, 13:53 BST
Last source update
9 Jul 2026, 13:53 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-064732
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Construction work
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c78e Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

9 Jul 2026 → 15 Nov 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published107 days ago
    9 Jul 2026, 13:53 BST
  2. Tender notice expected101 days ago
    15 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  3. Today
    24 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 21 days
    15 Nov 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    9 Jul 2026, 13:53 BST
    UK2

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

Town and Country Housing

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PGQL-8879-WWMD Monson House, Monson Road, Tunbridge Wells, South East, TN1 1LQContact email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure