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Published 4 Apr 2025, 10:55 BST

Official UK procurement notice

CCHA-0290 Digital Transformation Partner Consultancy

Official notice

Authority: Castles and Coasts Housing Association (Housing)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

ServicesCompetitive flexible procedureAbove thresholdSME suitableAccelerated
Published estimate£500,000≈ £333k / year · £600,000 inc. VAT · 1 value update
Submissions closed 28 Jul 2025awarded 8 Oct 2025
Award (standstill) to Altair Consultancy & Advisory Services Ltd
Contract term 1 yr 6 moends 30 Apr 2027 · up to 30 Apr 2029 with extensions · starts 31 Oct 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

CCHA are seeking an experienced Digital Transformation Partner to provide a transformation management, design, and delivery, consultancy service. The successful Digital Transformation Partner will possess significant experience and expertise in partnering with organisations, in both a strategic and hands-on capacity, to successfully deliver Digital Transformation Programme benefits and outcomes, within a set budget and agreed timeframes.

The Digital Transformation Partner will have demonstrable experience in designing and delivering complex transformational change, underpinned by advancing technologies, in areas such as Property Maintenance, Housing & Tenancy Management, Customer Experience, Digital Self-Service, Workforce Optimisation and Income Management.

In addition, the successful Digital Transformation Partner will demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the legislative, regulatory and financial landscape for the sector.

It is anticipated the partner will provide a number of services throughout the transformation programme which will include the provision of resources to lead, advise and/or support a range of programme activity:

-Programme Governance

-Planning, Monitoring and Control of Programme & project delivery

-Customer experience research & journey mapping

-Blueprint design & delivery (incorporating business, application, data and infrastructure architectures)

-Process modelling and design, service design, and requirements elicitation and management

-Technical Design, Delivery & Assurance

-Programme Procurement Delivery

-Communications Strategy & Planning

-Change Management

-Learning & Development

-Resource Management

-Risk & Issue Management

-Quality and Assurance

-Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

-Benefits Realisation & Management

CCHA plan to conduct pre-market engagement and our tender may be modified as a result.

  • How the procedure runs: Stage 1 Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) - open invitation Stage 2 Invitation to Participate (ITP) - open to five (5) selected tenderers following PSQ evaluation Stage 3 Assessment and Interview - open to three (3) selected tenderers following Initial Tender evaluation Process described in the ITP enclosed with the PSQ.

CPV: Information systems or technology strategic review and planning services · Project management consultancy services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1AwardedRenewal 1 yr 6 moSMEPublished value£500,000
Contract period: 31 Oct 2025 – 30 Apr 2027 (1 yr 6 mo) · up to 30 Apr 2029 with extensionsValue: £500,000 exc. VAT · £600,000 inc. VAT
Delivery: UK, North East, North WestEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Blueprint phase may identify additional scopes which would be included in the contract. · The initial term of the contract will be 18 months to allow for the delivery of Blueprint, process re-engineering, requirements gathering and Procurement phases of the Programme. There will be a further period of 12 months to allow for the Delivery and Release phases, followed by 2 x additional 6-month periods. There will be break clauses at the end of each of those periods, a break will be initiated by CCHA serving notice to the supplier.

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 50%Price: 50%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Price: Contract will be awarded on the basis of Most Advantageous Tender on a mix of price and quality criteria described in the tender documentation.
  • Quality: Contract will be awarded on the basis of Most Advantageous Tender on a mix of price and quality criteria described in the tender documentation.
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 50 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Competitive flexible procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
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
4 Apr 2025, 10:55 BST
Last source update
13 Oct 2025, 14:06 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end – 8 Oct 2025
Authority reference
CCHA-0290
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-036574
Accelerated
Pre-selected tenderers - utilities/not central government
Latest notice
Contract award notice (UK6)
Classification (CPV)
Information systems or technology strategic review and planning servicesProject management consultancy services
Delivery area
UKNorth East (UKC)North West (UKD)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04fd23 Find a Tender
How it runs

Stage 1 Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) - open invitation

Stage 2 Invitation to Participate (ITP) - open to five (5) selected tenderers following PSQ evaluation

Stage 3 Assessment and Interview - open to three (3) selected tenderers following Initial Tender evaluation

Process described in the ITP enclosed with the PSQ.

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: ProContract (Due North) · Who buys & how to bid on ProContract
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowedLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
Requests to participate (first stage)
28 Jul 2025, 17:00 BST
Submission deadline
28 Jul 2025, 17:00 BST
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

4 Apr 2025 → 31 Oct 2025 · 10 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    4 Apr 2025, 10:55 BST
  2. Market engagement
    18 Apr 2025, 00:59 BST

    CCHA are conducting preliminary market engagement (PME) for the purposes of;

    A) Developing the requirements and approach to the procurement,

    B) Designing a procedure, conditions of participation or award criteria,

    C) Preparing the tender notice and associated tender documents,

    D) Identifying likely contractual terms, and

    to better understand the information prospective suppliers will require in order to bid.

    CCHA would like to engage with suppliers with the following attributes:

    • Experience of delivering transformation programmes in a transformation partner capacity within the last 5 years.
    • Experience of designing and delivering complex transformational change which may include re-engineering services and processes, leveraging technologies in areas such as Property Maintenance, Housing & Tenancy Management, Customer Experience, Resident Self-Service, Workforce Optimisation and Income Management.
    • Understanding of the social housing sector and it’s legal, regulatory and financial landscape.

    Suppliers are invited to register their interest in the PME by by emailing [email protected] . Following this, we shall issue a PME questionnaire. Suppliers should return completed questionnaires by 12 noon on Friday 11th April 2025. Questionnaires submitted after this date may not be reviewed and CCHA shall not be responsible for errors made by organisations in submitting their responses. Clarification questions should be submitted to [email protected].

    Following receipt of responses, CCHA intend to invite a selection of suppliers to discuss their responses via an MS Teams call on either Wednesday 16th April or Thursday 17th April. CCHA will notify suitable suppliers on Monday 14th April 2025. Participation in the PME will be at each organisations own cost and CCHA will not reimburse expenses for doing so.

    CCHA reserve the right to curtail the PME if response rates are high, and reject offers of engagement if suppliers’ responses do not appear a close match to CCHA requirements. Participation or non-participation in the PME shall not preclude any suppliers from participating in any forthcoming tender, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the PME shall place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process.

  3. Next notice expected
    20 May 2025, 00:59 BST
  4. Tender notice published
    1 Jul 2025, 18:04 BST
  5. Submission deadline
    28 Jul 2025, 17:00 BST
  6. Award decision expected by382 days ago
    8 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
  7. Assessment summaries sent381 days ago
    10 Oct 2025, 00:00 BST
  8. Latest notice published378 days ago
    13 Oct 2025, 14:06 BST
  9. Standstill ends368 days ago
    22 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
  10. Contract starts360 days ago
    31 Oct 2025

Notice history

10 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 4 Apr 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    4 Apr 2025, 10:55 BST
    UK2
  2. Tender notice published
    1 Jul 2025, 18:04 BST
    UK4
  3. Published value updated to £500,000
    1 Jul 2025, 18:04 BST
    was £208,333
  4. Status changed to active
    1 Jul 2025, 18:04 BST
  5. Procurement method changed
    1 Jul 2025, 18:04 BST
  6. Buyer details updated
    1 Jul 2025, 18:04 BST
  7. Contract award notice published
    13 Oct 2025, 14:06 BST
    UK6
  8. Status changed to complete
    13 Oct 2025, 14:06 BST
  9. Buyer details updated
    13 Oct 2025, 14:06 BST
  10. Contract signature expected
    24 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
    scheduled

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £500,0001 award exc. VAT
Bids received 11 from SMEs
Named bidders 1published on the award notice
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Altair Consultancy & Advisory Services Ltd24 Oct 2025 – 23 Oct 2027£500,0008 Oct 2025standstill to 22 Oct 2025Standstill

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
1final-stage tenders · 600000 at stage one10—

Who bid

Bidders as named on the Procurement Act 2023 award notice. “Won” means the bidder holds an award on this notice.

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

CASTLES & COASTS HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-COH: RS007617 · GB-PPON: PTVV-3754-HQGM 5 Paternoster Row, Carlisle, North West, CA38TTContact name, email, phone

Consortium members and other public bodies

  • Castles and CoastsContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentGB-PPON: PTVV-3754-HQGM Newcastle Upon Tyne, North EastContact name, email, phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications (6)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Bidding documents and specifications tenderBidding documents and specificationsPDFDigital Transformation Services Agreement - Contract terms that apply to the procurement.
  • Bidding documents and specifications tenderBidding documents and specificationsPDFProcurement Specific Questionnaire - bidders are invited to submit PSQ responses by 17:00 BST 28 July 2025
  • Bidding documents and specifications tenderBidding documents and specificationsPDFDigital Transformation Partner Invitation to Participate - This must not be completed until bidders are notified that they have passed the PSQ stage and been selected to bid.

Notices published for this procedure