Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 17 Apr 2026, 14:28 BST

Official UK procurement notice

CRM System · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Community Housing (Public body)

GoodsBelow thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 1 Apr 2030 · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Community Housing are looking to implement an effective customer to include:

  1. Customer Relationship Management which will be used by our contact centre to deliver a high rate of first-time fix for customers whether it is a new call or a chase call.
  2. Customer Portal where customer will access, using MFA, via an app with app functionality rather than a direct link to a web browser.
  3. Case Management enabling clear lines of task ownership which can be followed internally, via CRM, or externally, by customer using the Customer Portal.
  4. All internal based systems above should enable our remote workforce to apply updates on the go without the need to return to an office base to complete paperwork.
  5. Integrations between all of the core systems for Community Housing to enable a single view of the customer and their journey is a must. These integrations will need to be able to retrieve the required data as well as applying data changes to all required systems.

CPV: Customer Relation Management software development services · Customer Relation Management software package

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Community Housing buys Financial analysis and accounting software package (CPV 4844), and who usually turns up

Community Housing’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: Financial analysis and accounting software package (CPV 4844) →

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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 buyerCommunity Housing · all categories
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: 1 of 1 known-size awards · market: no supplier sizes published
1 of 1—

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 2 known-location awards · market: no winner locations published
2 of 2—

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in the delivery region.

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: no decision dates published · market: no decision dates published
——

No decision dates published to compare.

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 buyer’s 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: at least 1 of 3 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: no bid counts or routes published
1 of 3—

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

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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 484436 monthsSME suitableEstimate 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 32 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet13% single-bid risk
Past bids on 32 similar lots
1 bid13%
4 of 32 similar past lots received 1 bid (13%).
2–316%
5 of 32 similar past lots received 2–3 (16%).
4–641%
13 of 32 similar past lots received 4–6 (41%).
7+31%
10 of 32 similar past lots received 7+ (31%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5.5 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.

—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?
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
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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
17 Apr 2026, 14:28 BST
Last source update
17 Apr 2026, 14:28 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-035253
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Customer Relation Management software development servicesCustomer Relation Management software package
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
+1 moreSouth West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06856c Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

17 Apr 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published186 days ago
    17 Apr 2026, 14:28 BST
  2. Market engagement172 days ago
    1 May 2026, 23:59 BST

    Email [email protected] to request the document 'CRM System - Pre-Market Engagement Questionnaire'.

  3. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 162 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    17 Apr 2026, 14:28 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

The Community Housing Group Ltd

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-COH: 32351R · GB-PPON: PHDT-3538-YJVJ 3 Foley Grove, Kidderminster, West Midlands, DY11 7PTContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure