Official UK procurement notice
HCC Sept 2026 – Provision of Supported Housing at Westbury
Authority: Hertfordshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHertfordshire County Council is procuring a delivery partner for a new Supported Housing scheme at Westbury, Letchworth. The project forms part of the Council's wider five-year programme to increase the supply and quality of supported living accommodation for disabled adults and its Extra Care Housing Programme, which aims to provide modern, accessible homes that promote independence and wellbeing for older people who require care and support.
The Council's preferred approach is to work with a Registered Provider that can bring development expertise, long-term ownership and housing management experience, supported by Homes England funding and Registered Provider investment alongside Council resources. The successful partner would develop, own and manage the accommodation on Council-owned land under a long lease arrangement.
The Council is currently undertaking preparatory work on the site and expects to progress design and enabling works during 2025/26, with construction planned from 2026 onwards and completion between 2027 and 2030. Outline planning permission is expected to be secured through North Hertfordshire District Council, with any necessary enabling works undertaken to facilitate delivery of the scheme.
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Hertfordshire County Council (the “Council”) is a large shire county in the south-east of England with a population of 1.2 million. Hertfordshire is a two-tier authority with 10 district and borough councils providing complementary local services to residents.
In February 2025, the Council launched a five-year delivery plan to increase the supply and quality of supported living accommodation in Hertfordshire and, in doing so, deliver wider health and wellbeing outcomes to meet the existing and future demand for disabled adults in Hertfordshire by 2030. The programme responds to current and future demand, including people who currently live in unsuitable existing HCC accommodation, people living with their family who now need a home of their own, people in residential care whose needs could be met in supported living, and people living outside Hertfordshire who wish to return. The Supported Living Delivery Programme is intended to replace outdated accommodation, improve quality and accessibility, support independence, and provide modern homes.
The Council’s Extra Care delivery programme focusses on the provision of modern, accessible homes across the county that support independent living for older people and adults with care needs. By increasing the supply of Extra Care housing, the council aims to meet growing demand, promote well-being and independence, reduce reliance on residential care and ensure residents can remain in their communities while receiving flexible support tailored to their changing needs. The programme is responding to significant demographic growth, with evidence indicating a need for around 8,000 additional Extra care units by 2042, including approximately 1,800 affordable homes.
The Council’s preferred delivery approach is to work with Registered Providers who can bring housing development expertise, long-term ownership and housing management experience. This approach is intended to support delivery at pace while also making use of Homes England funding and Registered Provider investment alongside Council resources. The Council is exploring the best approach to work with developing Registered Providers (both Housing Associations and Local Authorities) (‘RPs’) to deliver, own and manage accommodation on Council owned land via a long lease (virtual freehold).
The Council is currently undertaking preparatory work on the Westbury site which is Council owned with a view to progressing design and enabling works during 2026-27, construction in 2027/28 – 2028/29 and phased completion and handover in 2028–30.
The Council anticipates obtaining outline planning approval for the site via the Local Planning Authority at North Herts District Council and undertaking enabling works where required to bring the site forward.
The Council seeks submissions from a Registered Provider partner to deliver, own and manage supported living accommodation at the Westbury Site.
The successful Tenderer will enter into the following agreements with the Council, together “the Contract”:
Grant Agreement – (note different terms subject to RP Not for Profit or For Profit)
Nominations Agreement
Development Agreement
Lease Agreement
Service Level Agreement
Heads of Terms
Any security documentation as required
In order to receive site- specific documents, Tenderers will be required to sign and return a Non-Disclosure Agreement (“NDA”).
The Council will procure the Contract using the Competitive Flexible Procedure as defined in the Procurement Act 2023, which will allow us to run a multistage procurement process as explained above.
Full details are in the tender document set.
Please sign and return the NDA (included with the document set) via the Portal in order to receive the Pre-Planning Application Documents.
Organisations wishing to take part in this project are invited to 'express an interest' and also 'opt in', which will give access to the full procurement documents in the e-tendering system.
To be considered as a Tenderer you must complete and submit a Tender by the deadline of 12.00 noon on 4 November 2026.
Please allow sufficient time to make your return, as Tender submissions cannot be uploaded and submitted after this return deadline.
Please ensure that where possible documents are uploaded as a PDF unless otherwise requested and that file names are succinct. Any questions relating to this procurement must be made via correspondence on the website, in accordance with the procurement documents, and can be addressed to the main contact as shown in the details above.
Tenderers should be aware that due to the nature of the Services provided, any Contract formed as a result of this procurement process shall be executed as a deed. Tenderers should seek independent legal advice on the implications of this prior to submitting their Tender, where appropriate. Please note that the Contract requirements will be subject to available financial resources, supplier performance and flexibility to meet changing demands.
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The Council reserves the right at any time to cease the procurement process and not award the Contract or to award only part of the opportunity described in this notice. If the Council takes up this right, then they will not be responsible for or pay the expenses or losses, which may be incurred by any organisation or tenderer as a result.
As per the Procurement Act 2023, the Council reserves the right during the Award phase of this procurement exercise to: - Amend the stages of the Competitive Flexible Procedure where further stages are required to come to a fuller understanding between parties of the scope or requirement or other such necessary elements. Amend the specification - Define or refine sub-weightings, particularly for price if it is not possible to fix costs for significant element(s) of the requirements. – Award the Contract at the conclusion of Stage 2 without the submission of Final Tenders. - Forego the Dialogue Stage and invite Final Tenders from the highest scoring 2 Tenderers at Stage 2 only. -Any amendments will be communicated in full to all Tenderers.
Following the government’s announcement in Parliament on 7 September 2026 and as published in the government’s press release: Review of local government reorganisation launched - GOV.UK, the Local Government Reorganisation process has been paused for Hertfordshire until further notice. The Authority will provide an update to all bidders once there is greater clarity regarding the future position of the LGR proposals as relates to this procurement.
How the procedure runs: The Council will procure the Contract using the Competitive Flexible Procedure as defined in the Procurement Act 2023, which will allow us to run a multistage procurement process, the process will be in 3 Stages as follows: Stage 1 - Tenderers will complete the Response Document (including the pricing schedule) and submit in line more…
with the deadlines outlined in section 2 of the Instructions to Tenderers document. All Tenderers are required to pass Part 1 (Registration on FTS (CDP) and Exclusions Information) and Part 2 (Conditions of Participation and Project Specific Questions) (Bid Forms 5-11) before proceeding to be evaluated and moderated at Part 3 – Award Criteria. Stage 2 - The top two Tenderers based on scores from Bid Forms 12-22 (Part 3 - Award Criteria) will advance to Stage 2, where they will be invited to dialogue with the Council on the Commercial Submission (Bid Forms 13 and 14) and the Contract Documents. Tenderers should be aware that the Council may raise clarifications based on your quality response before the top two (2) scoring Tenderers are invited to Stage 2. Stage 3 – At the conclusion of the Dialogue Stage, the top two Bidders will be requested to submit their final tender submissions to the Council. Once Stage 3 is completed, the Council will collate all the final scores for Stage 3, and the Council will award the Contract to the highest scoring organisation in terms of the stated award criteria. Full details of the Council’s requirements and the context of the procurement can be found in the Instruction to Tenderers and the supporting documents as detailed in the Procurement Document Index. For the full breakdown of the award criteria please refer to the Instructions to Tenderers document (Section 4)
CPV: Building construction work · Construction work · Demolition, site preparation and clearance work · Site preparation work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published valueAED 35,920,000
- Value
- AED 35,920,000 exc. VAT · AED 43,104,000 inc. VAT
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Hertfordshire County Council buys Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511) — and who usually turns up
Hertfordshire County Council’s own published record, next to the East of England market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Hertfordshire County Council
contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 4511 · 8 in division 45 (3 route not published) · 143 in all categories (41 without competition · 46 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 4 lots. 3 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 9) and 1 from older notices (bids received, middle 5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 4 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 36 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 11 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 220 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 5 notices.
East of England · Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511)
contract notices delivered in East of England in 36 months: 74 in CPV 4511 (63 competed, 7 route not published) · 1,405 in division 45 (1,077 competed, 228 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 23 lots. 18 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 5 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 23 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
i
Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 20 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 21 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 20 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 61 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on this buyer’s own usual movement over 36 lots (all categories), applied to the £35,920,000 estimate on this notice.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Who you are likely to meet i
Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
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Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
Suppliers on this authority’s earlier similar contracts, then suppliers with a matching track record — from published award history, not a bid list
Suppliers with a similar track record — and how they price i
Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
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Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
| Supplier | Evidence | Last award | Their award vs estimate | Relevance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glendale Countryside Limited Large | 2 class wins · 9 lots for this buyer | this month | at estimate n=12 | 52% |
| Frosts Landscape Construction Limited SME | 3 class wins | 17 months ago | no comparable pairs | 50% |
| RJ McLeod (Contractors) Limited. : R1a: 6c 7c 8c 9c, R1b: 6c 7c 8c 9c, R1c: 6c 7c 8c 9c, R1d: 6c 7c 8c 9c SME | 4 class wins | 51 months ago | no comparable pairs | 49% |
| Daltons Demolitions Limited SME | 4 class wins | 11 months ago | no comparable pairs | 48% |
| John F Hunt Regeneration Limited Large | 6 class wins | this month | 7% below n=1 | 48% |
Matched by the nightly worker on class wins, buyer history, delivery geography, scale and notice text; relevance is a 0–100% heuristic score, not a probability of bidding. “Their award vs estimate” is that supplier’s middle value on its own comparable single-supplier wins, CPV 4511 first. Nobody here is known to be bidding.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 23 Sept 2026, 09:20 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Sept 2026, 09:20 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 1 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
HCC2618092- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07781eFind a Tender- Contract terms summary
- Invoices are to be submitted to the Council, in accordance with the terms set out in the appropriate Contract Document(s). Payment will normally be made within thirty (30) days of receipt of a correct invoice.
- How it runs
The Council will procure the Contract using the Competitive Flexible Procedure as defined in the Procurement Act 2023, which will allow us to run a multistage procurement process, the process will be in 3 Stages as follows: Stage 1 - Tenderers will complete the Response Document (including the pricing schedule) and submit in line with the deadlines outlined in section 2 of the Instructions to Tenderers document. more…
All Tenderers are required to pass Part 1 (Registration on FTS (CDP) and Exclusions Information) and Part 2 (Conditions of Participation and Project Specific Questions) (Bid Forms 5-11) before proceeding to be evaluated and moderated at Part 3 – Award Criteria. Stage 2 - The top two Tenderers based on scores from Bid Forms 12-22 (Part 3 - Award Criteria) will advance to Stage 2, where they will be invited to dialogue with the Council on the Commercial Submission (Bid Forms 13 and 14) and the Contract Documents. Tenderers should be aware that the Council may raise clarifications based on your quality response before the top two (2) scoring Tenderers are invited to Stage 2. Stage 3 – At the conclusion of the Dialogue Stage, the top two Bidders will be requested to submit their final tender submissions to the Council. Once Stage 3 is completed, the Council will collate all the final scores for Stage 3, and the Council will award the Contract to the highest scoring organisation in terms of the stated award criteria. Full details of the Council’s requirements and the context of the procurement can be found in the Instruction to Tenderers and the supporting documents as detailed in the Procurement Document Index. For the full breakdown of the award criteria please refer to the Instructions to Tenderers document (Section 4)
- Risks
Following the government’s announcement in Parliament on 7 September 2026 and as published in the government’s press release: Review of local government reorganisation launched - GOV.UK, the Local Government Reorganisation process has been paused for Hertfordshire until further notice. The Authority will provide an more…
update to all bidders once there is greater clarity regarding the future position of the LGR proposals as relates to this procurement.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via In-tend- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 4 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 19 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
5 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice published4 days ago23 Sept 2026, 09:20 BST
- Clarification questions byin 22 days19 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 39 days4 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 156 days1 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 185 days31 Mar 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published23 Sept 2026, 09:20 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specificationsAccess: Following the receipt of the signed NDA the Pre Planning and Feasibility documents will be issued, via the Supply Hertfordshire portal.
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender