Official UK procurement notice
Insurance and related services for Property, legal liability and other general (non-life) insurable risks, as required by Watford Community Housing Trust t/a Chime Housing
Authority: Watford Community Housing Trust (Housing)·On behalf of: YMCA Saint Pauls Group
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe programme will require Insurance and related services for risks that may include but not be limited to: property damage and business interruption, employers, public, products and property owners liability, business combined/office, money, all risks, computer, contract works, group personal accident, professional indemnity, fidelity guarantee/crime and employment practices liability. This list is to be decided at the sole discretion of Watford Community Housing Trust t/a Chime Housing.
CPV: Insurance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Watford Community Housing Trust buys Insurance services (CPV 6651), and who usually turns up
Watford Community Housing Trust has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Insurance services (CPV 6651) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Across this market, small firms won 2% of awards with a known supplier size.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Across this market, 42% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 64 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Across this market, at least 33% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid28%
2–345%
4–626%
7+1%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate44%
Within ±2%33%
Above estimate23%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 6651Published estimate£11m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
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 703 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid28%
2–345%
4–626%
7+1%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance Brokers LtdLive contract | Insurance and related services for Property, legal liability and other general (non-life) insurable risks, as required by Accent Group Ltd.runs to Mar 2029 | — | £1.1m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| JenstenLive contract | Insurance and related services for Property, legal liability and other general (non-life) insurable risks, as required by Accent Group Ltd.runs to Mar 2029 | Insurance and related services associated with Directors and Officers Liability and Professional Indemnity as required by Accent Group Ltd | £35k | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Jensten Insurance Brokers (London & SE) LimitedLive contract | Insurance and related services for Property, legal liability and other general (non-life) insurable risks, as required by Accent Group Ltd.runs to Mar 2029 | Insurance and related services associated with Directors and Officers Liability and Professional Indemnity as required by Accent Group Ltd | £35k | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Advisory insurance brokersLive contract | Insurance and related services for Property, legal liability and other general (non-life) insurable risks, as required by Accent Group Ltd.runs to Mar 2029 | Insurance and related services associated with Terrorism and/or Political Violence (Non Pool-Re) for Accent Group Ltd | £30k | Matched as the earlier contract |
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
66% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
66% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (66% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Insurance and related services for Property, legal liability and other general (non-life) insurable risks, as required by Accent Group Ltd. — held by Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance Brokers Ltd and Advisory insurance brokers; the published contract ends 31 Mar 2029.
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
- 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
- 21 Jul 2026, 13:16 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Jul 2026, 13:16 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-068693- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06cfd4Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 Jul 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published96 days ago21 Jul 2026, 13:16 BST
- Market engagement61 days ago24 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
Watford Community Housing Trust t/a Chime Housing is undertaking early market engagement with prospective bidders and other participants within the insurance market in advance of its forthcoming insurance services tender. The purpose of this pre-engagement activity is to provide an overview of our organisation, outline our anticipated insurance requirements, and present our proposed procurement approach and indicative timetable.
The sessions will also provide an opportunity for interested parties to ask questions, offer high-level feedback, and help inform the development of the final tender documentation prior to the formal launch of the procurement.
Attendance at any meeting or event is entirely optional and will not form part of the evaluation process, nor will it confer any advantage or disadvantage in the subsequent tender.
This pre-engagement is intended solely to promote transparency, improve market understanding, and support an open and competitive procurement process.
If you wish to attend a meeting, please confirm your interest by 13:00 on 03 August 2026 by emailing [email protected]. Once you submit your interest, you will receive the meeting agenda and a set of questions in advance; a written response will be required.
Any pre-engagement meetings will be held online via Microsoft Teams.
- Tender notice expected60 days ago25 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 158 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Jul 2026, 13:16 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
3 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- YMCA Saint Pauls GroupBeneficiary authority
- Gibbs Laidler Consulting LLPProcuring entityWorking on behalf of the contracting authority
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