Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 6 Mar 2026, 10:17 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Customer Reward Solution · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Stonewater Limited (Public body)

ServicesBelow threshold
Planned pipeline value£36,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 30 Sept 2029 · starts 1 Oct 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Stonewater intends to procure a points‑based rewards platform to incentivise and reward positive customer behaviours, support channel shift, encourage engagement, and provide cost‑of‑living support.

We would very much like to welcome your feedback to the below questions to assist us with refining our specification.

Please see our Requirements Document Customer Rewards Platform document for more specific requirements via the Delta platform.

Stonewater is one of the UK’s largest social housing providers, dedicated to creating places that people can truly call home. With 40,000 properties, we proudly serve more than 93,000 customers from diverse backgrounds across the country.

At the core of our mission as a registered social landlord is the commitment to safe, affordable housing for people of all ages and backgrounds. Guided by our Vision - that everyone should have the opportunity to have a place that they can call home - we offer homes for rent, shared ownership, and purchase. Our specialised services include retirement and supported living schemes for older and vulnerable people, safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community, domestic abuse refuges, and young people’s foyers.

Our approach is rooted in becoming a truly customer-driven organisation, building relationships founded on respect, honesty, transparency, and a commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

With an annual turnover of £239 million and £2.4 billion in fixed assets, Stonewater holds a strong credit rating from S&P Global Ratings and maintains top G1/V1 rankings for governance and viability.

As part of the Stonewater Group, encompassing both commercial and not-for-profit subsidiaries, we engage in a range of commercial activities to fuel our mission of providing homes for those who need them most. Stonewater is more than a housing provider—we’re building foundations for futures. Stonewater intends to procure a points‑based rewards platform to incentivise and reward positive customer behaviours, support channel shift, encourage engagement, and provide cost‑of‑living support.

We may wish to follow up on some answers directly with the suppliers either by email or Teams calls.

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Access Code

456U4AP668

CPV: Customer-loyalty programme

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Stonewater Limited buys Advertising and marketing services (CPV 7934), and who usually turns up

Stonewater Limited’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: Advertising and marketing services (CPV 7934) →

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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 buyerStonewater Limited · division 79
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: 2 of 2 known-size awards · market: CPV 7934 · UK-wide, n=461
2 of 260%

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.

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 2 known-location awards · market: CPV 7934 · UK-wide, n=382
1 of 258%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 decided notices · market: CPV 7934 · UK-wide, n=130
60 days46 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 60 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.

The market 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: exactly 1 of 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7934 · UK-wide, n=705
17%40%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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 buyer5 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 79
0% had one bid
The market246 lots with bid counts · CPV 7934 · UK-wide
17% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 17%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 43 of 246 lots with published bid counts.
2–30% / 22%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 54 of 246 lots with published bid counts.
4–620% / 28%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 69 of 246 lots with published bid counts.
7+80% / 33%
Buyer: 4 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 80 of 246 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 buyer5 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 79
20% below estimate
The market193 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7934 · UK-wide
20% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate20% / 20%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 38 of 193 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%80% / 66%
Buyer: 4 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 128 of 193 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 14%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 27 of 193 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 793436 monthsPublished estimate£36k
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 246 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet17% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 246 similar lots
1 bid17%
43 of 246 similar past lots received 1 bid (17%).
2–322%
54 of 246 similar past lots received 2–3 (22%).
4–628%
69 of 246 similar past lots received 4–6 (28%).
7+33%
80 of 246 similar past lots received 7+ (33%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £36k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
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
6 Mar 2026, 10:17 GMT
Last source update
11 Mar 2026, 11:18 GMT
Authority reference
00473-CX
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-021689
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Customer-loyalty programme
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)South East (UKJ)South West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0663c9 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

6 Mar 2026 → 1 Oct 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published235 days ago
    6 Mar 2026, 10:17 GMT
  2. Latest notice published230 days ago
    11 Mar 2026, 11:18 GMT
  3. Market engagement200 days ago
    9 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST

    www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html ↗ Access Code : 456U4AP668

    Possibility of virtual demo at a later date.

  4. Contract starts26 days ago
    1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 Mar 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    6 Mar 2026, 10:17 GMT
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    11 Mar 2026, 11:18 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

Stonewater Ltd

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-PPON: PVMT-4274-HPBN Suite C Lancaster House, Grange Business Park, Enerby Road, Leicester, East Midlands, LE8 6EPContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure