Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 22 May 2026, 23:53 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Camden Rough Sleeping Hub

Authority: London Borough of Camden (Local council)

ServicesLight touch regimeSME suitable
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 Mar 2030 · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description
  • This notice is a PIPELINE NOTICE and therefore is NOT currently a call for competition. For the avoidance of doubt, the Pipeline Notice is intended to provide the most accurate forecast currently available for the council's high value procurement activity, but does not commit the council to procuring any contract and may be amended after publication. No further information other than that captured in this notice can be provided at this time. *

The council intends to commission a service to provide immediate safe shelter for people verified as sleeping rough in the borough and to ensure they engage positively with service offers, such as health & wellbeing, financial resilience and move on, to provide a route away from rough sleeping. The current contract is fully funded through a grant from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

CPV: Social work services with accommodation

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 3 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2030 (3 yrs)
Eligibility: SME eligible

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How London Borough of Camden buys Social work services (CPV 8531), and who usually turns up

London Borough of Camden’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Social work services (CPV 8531) →

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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 buyerLondon Borough of Camden · division 85
The marketSocial work services (CPV 8531) · Greater London (authority’s region)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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: 6 of 28 known-size awards · market: CPV 8531 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=147
21%49%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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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.

Here, local means registered in Greater London (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 35 of 48 known-location awards · market: CPV 8531 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=243
73%69%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 10 decided notices · market: CPV 8531 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=36
97 days78 days

Half of these awards were announced within 97 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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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 14 of 31 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8531 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=187
45%66%

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 buyer20 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
30% had one bid
The market81 lots with bid counts · CPV 8531 · Greater London (authority’s region)
27% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid30% / 27%
Buyer: 6 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 22 of 81 lots with published bid counts.
2–335% / 40%
Buyer: 7 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 32 of 81 lots with published bid counts.
4–625% / 23%
Buyer: 5 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 19 of 81 lots with published bid counts.
7+10% / 10%
Buyer: 2 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 81 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 buyer18 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85
28% below estimate
The market60 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8531 · Greater London (authority’s region)
25% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate28% / 25%
Buyer: 5 of 18 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 15 of 60 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%61% / 65%
Buyer: 11 of 18 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 39 of 60 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate11% / 10%
Buyer: 2 of 18 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 60 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 853136 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
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 81 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet27% single-bid risk
Past bids on 81 similar lots
1 bid27%
22 of 81 similar past lots received 1 bid (27%).
2–340%
32 of 81 similar past lots received 2–3 (40%).
4–623%
19 of 81 similar past lots received 4–6 (23%).
7+10%
8 of 81 similar past lots received 7+ (10%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Single Homeless ProjectEarlier contractRough Sleeping Hubnotice published Mar 2026—£632kMatched as the earlier contract

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.

What this replaces
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

73% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (73% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Rough Sleeping Hub — held by Single Homeless Project; no contract end date published.

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
Unspecified in notice
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
22 May 2026, 23:53 BST
Last source update
22 May 2026, 23:53 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-048318
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Social work services with accommodation
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a25d Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

22 May 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published150 days ago
    22 May 2026, 23:53 BST
  2. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 13 days
    1 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 163 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    22 May 2026, 23:53 BST
    UK1

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

London Borough of Camden

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PZXL-5842-VBBG Town Hall, Judd Street, London, London, WC1H 9JEContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender