Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 29 Sept 2026, 13:35 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Health Insurance Brokerage Services

Authority: Woven Housing Association Ltd (Housing)

ServicesBelow threshold
Planned pipeline value£620,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 2 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 30 Nov 2027 · up to 30 Nov 2029 with extensions · starts 1 Dec 2026
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

The provision of: Health Insurance Brokerage Services Providing a Private Medical Insurance and a Health Cash Back Plan.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The provision of: Health Insurance Brokerage Services Providing a Private Medical Insurance and a Health Cash Back Plan

CPV: Health insurance services · Insurance agency services · Insurance brokerage services · Insurance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 1 yr
Contract period: 1 Dec 2026 – 30 Nov 2027 (1 yr) · up to 30 Nov 2029 with extensions
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Woven Housing Association Ltd buys Insurance services (CPV 6651), and who usually turns up

Woven Housing Association 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: Insurance services (CPV 6651) →

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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 buyerWoven Housing Association Ltd · all categories
The marketInsurance services (CPV 6651) · Northern Ireland
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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

Buyer: 7 of 10 known-size awards · market: CPV 6651 · Northern Ireland, n=174
70%2%

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

How often do local suppliers win?
i

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Northern Ireland.

Buyer: 7 of 7 known-location awards · market: CPV 6651 · Northern Ireland, n=196
100%45%

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

How long to a decision?
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Buyer: 5 decided notices · market: CPV 6651 · Northern Ireland, n=21
117 days21 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 117 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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

Buyer: exactly 6 of 12 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 6651 · Northern Ireland, n=38
50%24%

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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This buyer15 lots with bid counts · all categories
40% had one bid
The market187 lots with bid counts · CPV 6651 · Northern Ireland
76% had one bid
% of lots with a published bid count: this buyer (15) / the market (187) · select a colour for counts
1 bid40% / 76%
Buyer: 6 of 15 lots with published bid counts. Market: 142 of 187 lots with published bid counts.
2–30% / 20%
Buyer: 0 of 15 lots with published bid counts. Market: 38 of 187 lots with published bid counts.
4–647% / 4%
Buyer: 7 of 15 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 187 lots with published bid counts.
7+13% / 0%
Buyer: 2 of 15 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 187 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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This buyer7 lots with estimate and award · all categories
43% below estimate
The market83 lots with estimate and award · CPV 6651 · Northern Ireland
39% below estimate
% of lots with an estimate and award: this buyer (7) / the market (83) · select a colour for counts
Below estimate43% / 39%
Buyer: 3 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 32 of 83 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%0% / 27%
Buyer: 0 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 22 of 83 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate57% / 35%
Buyer: 4 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 29 of 83 lots with an estimate and award.
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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 665112 monthsPublished estimate£620k
Expected competition
i

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 187 past lots.

—No model forecast yet76% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 187 similar lots
1 bid76%
142 of 187 similar past lots received 1 bid (76%).
2–320%
38 of 187 similar past lots received 2–3 (20%).
4–64%
7 of 187 similar past lots received 4–6 (4%).
7+0%
0 of 187 similar past lots received 7+ (0%).
Check who supplied similar work and whether the route limits bidders.
Commercial price forecast
i

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £620k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

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

Who could compete for this lot?
i

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.

Coming up in this sector

Contracts ending within 12 months · Retender Radar, sector filter set

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
29 Sept 2026, 13:35 BST
Last source update
29 Sept 2026, 13:35 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091880
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Health insurance servicesInsurance agency servicesInsurance brokerage servicesInsurance services
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077c78 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

29 Sept 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published45 days ago
    29 Sept 2026, 13:35 BST
  2. Market engagement30 days ago
    14 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST

    A market research process, via a questionnaire is being undertaken via ETendersNI: etendersni.gov.uk/epps/cft/prepareView… ↗

  3. Tender notice expected11 days ago
    2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Today
    14 Nov 2026
  5. Contract startsin 16 days
    1 Dec 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    29 Sept 2026, 13:35 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

Woven Housing Association Ltd

Contracting authorityPublic undertakingNorthern Irish devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PQBT-2382-QBDX Laganwood House, 44 Newforge Lane, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, BT9 5NXContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure