Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 15 Jan 2026, 15:11 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

* Conditions of Participation Stage * NCHA Fire Services Framework

Authority: Nottingham Community Housing Association Limited (Housing)

Framework agreementServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 18 Feb 2026from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 4 yrsends 31 May 2030 · up to 31 May 2034 with extensions · starts 1 Jun 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

** This is a conditions of participation stage, if you are interested in this opportunity, please request the document via the My Tenders portal below **

www.mytenders.co.uk/Register_V2/Supplier… ↗

  • Suppliers who do not meet the published minimum thresholds for financial capacity and/or technical ability will be deemed to have failed these conditions of participation and will not progress to the tender stage. *

Nottingham Community Housing Association ("NCHA") wish to appoint providers to undertake servicing, maintenance and repair of fire safety equipment at properties owned/managed by NCHA.

The Authority intends to establish a multi-supplier Fire Compliance Framework to support the delivery of fire safety-related services and works across its housing stock. The framework will provide a compliant and flexible route to market for fire safety services, enabling timely response to regulatory requirements, planned programmes and reactive works.

CPV: Fire-prevention services

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
4 yrs · up to 8 yrs from 1 Jun 2026

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 4 yrs
Contract period: 1 Jun 2026 – 31 May 2030 (4 yrs) · up to 31 May 2034 with extensions
Delivery: East Midlands
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
i

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
What this means for your bid
  • “* Conditions of Participation Stage * NCHA Fire Services Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

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

How Nottingham Community Housing Association Limited buys Fire-brigade and rescue services (CPV 7525), and who usually turns up

Nottingham Community Housing Association Limited’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Fire-brigade and rescue services (CPV 7525) →

1

How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bidWhat 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: no supplier sizes published · market: CPV 7525 · UK-wide, n=9
—44%

No supplier sizes published for this authority.

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.

Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: division 75 · UK-wide, n=51
—27%

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in East Midlands.

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: 4 decided notices · market: division 75 · UK-wide, n=11
41 days92 days

Half of these awards were announced within 41 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.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no awards on record · market: CPV 7525 · UK-wide, n=5
—40%

No awards recorded for this authority in this market.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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 buyer4 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 75 · too few to chart
The market21 lots with bid counts · CPV 7525 · UK-wide
0% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0%
Market: 0 of 21 lots with published bid counts.
2–329%
Market: 6 of 21 lots with published bid counts.
4–624%
Market: 5 of 21 lots with published bid counts.
7+48%
Market: 10 of 21 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.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.

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Assess each lot
i

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 752548 monthsEstimate not published
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 21 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet0% single-bid risk
Past bids on 21 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 21 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–329%
6 of 21 similar past lots received 2–3 (29%).
4–624%
5 of 21 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+48%
10 of 21 similar past lots received 7+ (48%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 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.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

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
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
15 Jan 2026, 15:11 GMT
Last source update
15 Jan 2026, 15:11 GMT
Authority reference
NCHA202575
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-003580
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Fire-prevention services
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0606e2 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

15 Jan 2026 → 1 Jun 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published280 days ago
    15 Jan 2026, 15:11 GMT
  2. Market engagement258 days ago
    5 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
    • This is a conditions of participation stage *

    Suppliers who do not meet the published minimum thresholds for financial capacity and/or technical ability will be deemed to have failed these conditions of participation and will not progress to the tender stage.

    Please request via the link below:

    www.mytenders.co.uk/Register_V2/Supplier… ↗

    This stage will be open for 3 weeks, and responses reviewed accordingly.

  3. Tender notice expected245 days ago
    18 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts143 days ago
    1 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    15 Jan 2026, 15:11 GMT
    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

NOTTINGHAM COMMUNITY HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-COH: RS007104 · GB-PPON: PNBW-6182-MLVN Clifton Place, 9 Fairham Brook Drive, Nottingham, East Midlands, NG11 8PYContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure