Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice

Published 28 Sept 2026, 14:20 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Furniture and Flooring Services Framework 27-31

Authority: Northern Housing Consortium Ltd (Public body)

Framework agreementGoodsAbove threshold

Sectors: Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products (39)Construction Materials & Prefab (44)Construction & Civil Engineering (45) Delivery: UK

Planned pipeline value£60,739,124pipeline notice, not a live tender

Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice

Framework period 4 yrsends 30 Sept 2031 · starts 1 Oct 2027

Notice summaryFrom the published notice

This Framework is for the provision of Furniture and Flooring Services and supportive goods, works & services; to be carried out within home/living, employment, or community environments.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This Framework is for the provision of Furniture and Flooring Services and supportive goods, works & services; to be carried out within home/living, employment, or community environments.

The Framework may cover, but is not limited to, the following:

Manufacture and supply of products
Delivery of products
Installation, repair, or replacement of products offered via the catalogues.
Product recycling, disposal, and re-distribution (where appropriate)

CPV: Carpeting · Carpets · Carpets, mats and rugs · Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products · Parquet flooring · Solid flooring

How this framework works

From the published notice

Framework period: 4 yrs from 1 Oct 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Planned 4 yrs

Contract period: 1 Oct 2027 – 30 Sept 2031 (4 yrs)

Delivery: UK

39000000 Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products 39530000 Carpets, mats and rugs 39531000 Carpets 39531400 Carpeting 44112210 Solid flooring 45432113 Parquet flooring

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more

What this means for your bid

“Furniture and Flooring Services Framework 27-31” 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 Northern Housing Consortium Ltd buys Construction materials (CPV 4411), and who usually turns up

Northern Housing Consortium Ltd’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Construction materials (CPV 4411) →

How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid

This buyerNorthern Housing Consortium Ltd · all categories

The marketConstruction materials (CPV 4411) · UK-wide

What to do with it

How often do SMEs win?

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Buyer: 1 of 3 known-size awards · market: CPV 4411 · UK-wide, n=103

1 of 355%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.

Buyer: 0 of 0 known-location awards · market: CPV 4411 · UK-wide, n=120

0 of 067%

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?

Buyer: 4 decided notices · market: CPV 4411 · UK-wide, n=24

39 days54 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 39 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Buyer: exactly 2 of 3 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4411 · UK-wide, n=28

2 of 311%

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?

This buyer28 lots with bid counts · all categories

18% had one bid

The market138 lots with bid counts · CPV 4411 · UK-wide

4% had one bid

% of lots with a published bid count: this buyer (28) / the market (138) · select a colour for counts

1 bid18% / 4%

Buyer: 5 of 28 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 138 lots with published bid counts.

2–34% / 33%

Buyer: 1 of 28 lots with published bid counts. Market: 46 of 138 lots with published bid counts.

4–621% / 28%

Buyer: 6 of 28 lots with published bid counts. Market: 38 of 138 lots with published bid counts.

7+57% / 35%

Buyer: 16 of 28 lots with published bid counts. Market: 48 of 138 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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

Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.

Assess each lot
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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 454348 monthsPublished estimate£61m

This lot is listed as CPV 4543. The table above uses the notice category.

Expected competition

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 10 past lots.

—No model forecast yet0% chance of a single bid

Past bids on 10 similar lots

1 bid0%

0 of 10 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).

2–330%

3 of 10 similar past lots received 2–3 (30%).

4–620%

2 of 10 similar past lots received 4–6 (20%).

7+50%

5 of 10 similar past lots received 7+ (50%).

Comparable past lots usually drew 6 bids.

Commercial price forecast

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—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?
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
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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: Goods
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: 28 Sept 2026, 14:20 BST
Last source update: 28 Sept 2026, 14:20 BST
FTS notice number: 2026/S 000-091471
Latest notice: Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV): CarpetingCarpetsCarpets, mats and rugsFurniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning productsParquet flooringSolid flooring
Delivery area: UK
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-077b99 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice

Appointment period ends: —

Timeline

28 Sept 2026 → 1 Oct 2027 · 3 dates

Planning notice published46 days ago
28 Sept 2026, 14:20 BST
Today
13 Nov 2026
Market engagementin 7 days
20 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
We would like to invite interested suppliers to book an individual supplier engagement session via Microsoft teams to gather feedback and information on our approach to developing a refreshed Furniture and Flooring Framework and are pleased to announce we have commenced the re-procurement of our Furniture and Flooring framework.
We are holding engagement sessions for interested suppliers from Monday 16th November 2026 till Friday 20th November 2026. Sessions will typically last 30 minutes. Slots will be first cum first served basis.
If you would like to book a slot, please email [email protected] and we will subsequently confirm your attendance.
Contract startsin 321 days
1 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender

Preliminary market engagement notice published
28 Sept 2026, 14:20 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

Northern Housing Consortium Ltd

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJXZ-4423-NDBT Hope Street Xchange, 1-3 Hind Street, Sunderland, Sunderland, North East, SR1 3QDContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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