Official UK procurement notice
Finance System Replacement · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Citizen Housing Group Ltd (Housing)
Citizen Housing Group is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform a potential procurement of a replacement finance system. The proposed objectives are to strengthen financial controls, streamline processing, improve organisation's reporting and provide reliable information for decision-making. Suppliers are invited to explain their approach to functionality, integration, data migration, reporting, implementation, ongoing support and maintenance, together with delivery timescales and the resources required from the contracting authority. Additionally, market engagement will inform affordability and an indicative whole-life cost estimate, including implementation, subscriptions, support, maintenance and potential extensions.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCitizen Housing Group is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform a potential procurement of a replacement finance system. The proposed objectives are to strengthen financial controls, streamline processing, improve organisation's reporting and provide reliable information for decision-making. The scope and objectives remain subject to confirmation and refinement through market engagement.
A Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model is currently anticipated. Suppliers are invited to explain their approach to functionality, integration, data migration, reporting, implementation, ongoing support and maintenance, together with delivery timescales and the resources required from the contracting authority.
Additionally, market engagement will inform affordability and an indicative whole-life cost estimate, including implementation, subscriptions, support, maintenance and potential extensions. The initial contract term and any extension options remain under consideration.
If this is a service your organisation can provide, please contact our Procurement Team at [email protected] to register your interest and be added to our mailing list for future procurement opportunities.
The contract details in this notice are purely estimates and are not confirmed.
CPV: Software implementation services · Software package and information systems
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The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Citizen Housing Group Ltd buys Software-related services (CPV 7226), and who usually turns up
Citizen Housing Group Ltd’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: Software-related services (CPV 7226) →
How the contest usually goes
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 42 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid9% / 14%
2–318% / 29%
4–636% / 43%
7+36% / 14%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate80% / 55%
Within ±2%20% / 24%
Above estimate0% / 20%
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 7226Estimate not published
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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 88 past lots.
1 bid11%
2–330%
4–625%
7+34%
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see 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
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 13 Nov 2026, 11:47 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Nov 2026, 11:47 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107942- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07bb7cFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Nov 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice publishedjust passed13 Nov 2026, 11:47 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 7 days20 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
If this is a service your organisation can provide, please contact our Procurement Team at [email protected] to register your interest and be added to our mailing list for future procurement opportunities.
- Contract startsin 229 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Nov 2026, 11:47 GMTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender