Official UK procurement notice
Housing Allocations and Homelessness Management Solution - Soft Market Testing
Authority: West Northamptonshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWNC is inviting the industry to innovate and collaborate on a solution to manage our housing register, allocations and homelessness services to enable our capabilities related to supporting our residents with their housing needs.
The contracts for the both the current incumbent solutions ends on the 31st of March 2026.
WNC currently have approx 2,000 customers active on the housing register, with approximately 3,000 applications awaiting assessment.
Our incumbent Social Housing Management Solution is accessed by approximately 200 officers concurrently although this includes the landlord function. Our incumbent Homeless management solution is accessed by approximately 100 officers daily.
WNC has, on average, 450 homeless approaches per month and currently has around 1800 open homeless cases in spanning relief, approach, main duty and prevention.
There are currently up to 800 households placed in Temporary accommodation including placements in our own stock for which we would need to access rent accounts and process invoices.
The system also ensures that WNC holds and maintains all data in relation to customers, properties and tenancy agreements.
CPV: Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 28 Jul 2025, 10:17 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Aug 2025, 10:53 BST
- Authority reference
WNCSMTKL260725- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-047922- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0566c0Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 Jul 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published28 Jul 2025, 10:17 BST
- Latest notice published12 Aug 2025, 10:53 BST
- Market engagement15 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
We are looking for input from the market that will help us to develop a service, comprising of one or more solutions that will provide:
- A service that matches WNC's economic, environmental, and social values
- Is fit for purpose for a modern, forward-thinking organisation.
- Value for money for the taxpayers
Your solution should support WNC in effectively and efficiently delivering one or more homelessness functions, including:
- Housing Register
Application & registration
Assessment & banding
Bidding & property matching
Shortlisting & offers
- Housing Assessment
- Housing approach and pathways
- Triage
- PHPs
- Temporary Accommodation placement management
- Temporary Accommodation property inventory
- Temporary Accommodation rent accounting
- Temporary Accommodation Placement invoicing
- Temporary Accommodation Move out property management
- Reporting, auditing and trend analysis
Capabilities provided by the incumbent system are completed by integrating with:
- Infinity - Tenancy management, rent accounting, repairs
Incumbent solution also integrates with WNC strategic solutions including:
- TouchRight - Temporary Accommodation move out property management
- Open Housing - Tenancy management & housing allocations
- HeyCentric - Income Management System
- Civica Digital360 - EDRMS
- Unit4 ERP - General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
- Capita One Academy - Revenues & Benefits posting of benefits to individual rent accounts
To request the soft market testing document for completion, please email [email protected]. Please note that the deadline for returns is 23:59 on 15th August 2025 (extended 12/08/25).
- Contract starts212 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 28 Jul 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Jul 2025, 10:17 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Aug 2025, 14:48 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Aug 2025, 10:53 BSTUK2
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 (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender