Official UK procurement notice
Custodial Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme
Authority: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionRe-procurement of the custodial Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme, which is expected to be a concessionary arrangement. The requirement covers the management and administration of the Custodial Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme and providing an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) service. Concessionary contract values are calculated based on estimated revenues - the current estimate for this scheme is circa £1.4BN for the initial 5 year duration of the contract, however this is an indicative figure only, and the actual value shall be subject to a number of variable factors.
This Pipeline Notice supersedes the previous Pipeline Notice for this procurement: www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/021424-2025 ↗. A new notice was required in order to update certain details.
CPV: Financial and insurance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government buys Financial and insurance services (CPV 66), and who usually turns up
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government’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: Financial and insurance services (CPV 66) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
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.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 27 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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.
1 bid63% / 26%
2–325% / 44%
4–66% / 27%
7+6% / 3%
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.
Below estimate23% / 40%
Within ±2%77% / 40%
Above estimate0% / 20%
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.
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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 66Published estimate£1.4bn
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 66. The comparison uses that group.
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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 903 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid26%
2–344%
4–627%
7+3%
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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.
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.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Tenancy Deposit Solutions Ltd (Scheme trading as MyDeposits)Earlier contract | Insurance-Based Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme Concession Contract Anotice published Mar 2022 | Insurance-Based Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme, Service Concession Agreement - Contract A | £0 | Matched 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.
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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 i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
47% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
47% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (47% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Insurance-Based Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme Concession Contract A — held by Tenancy Deposit Solutions Ltd (Scheme trading as MyDeposits); no contract end date published.
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
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Concession
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 27 Oct 2025, 15:15 GMT
- Last source update
- 21 May 2026, 15:18 BST
- Authority reference
CPD4126218- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047236- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d465Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Oct 2025 → 31 Mar 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published363 days ago27 Oct 2025, 15:15 GMT
- Market engagement194 days ago13 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
To request a copy of the Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) document and access the data room document, please email the below address ensuring to insert "CPD4126218 - Tenancy Deposit Protection Schemes" into the subject header of the email.
MHCLG kindly request your responses to the questions set out in section 8 of the PME document by no later than 5pm on 13th April 2026.
The Department shall also be hosting 1-2-1 online engagement sessions with MHCLG officials in w/c 16th March, Wednesday and Thursday at 10am - 11am, 12noon - 1pm and 3pm - 4pm on each of these days. Also in w/c 23rd March Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 10am-11am, 12noon-1pm and 3pm-4pm on each of these days. If you wish to attend a session, please send your 1st, 2nd and 3rd preferences for a date and time via email to [email protected] no later than 5 working days before the proposed date. Due to capacity constraints, 1-2-1 slots are limited and will be offered on a first come first serve basis.
If there are any changes to the deadlines, MHCLG shall endeavour to update the notice and also inform those who have requested the document and/or participation in a 1-2-1 session.
- Latest notice published157 days ago21 May 2026, 15:18 BST
- Tender notice expected54 days ago31 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 157 days31 Mar 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
6 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Oct 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Oct 2025, 15:15 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Nov 2025, 15:34 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Mar 2026, 09:07 GMTUK2
- Pipeline notice published21 May 2026, 15:18 BSTUK1
- Published value published: £1,400,000,00021 May 2026, 15:18 BST
- Status changed to planned21 May 2026, 15:18 BST
Published amendments (1)
The deadline for engagement has been extended until 5th December 2025 from 24th November 2025.
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-10: 1 release · 27 Oct 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender