Official UK procurement notice
Major Works contracts to support the delivery LBTH Mayor's Accelerated Housing Programme
Authority: Tower Hamlets
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe London Borough of Tower Hamlets (the “Council”) is issuing this Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) Notice to inform the market of its intention to procure 9 no. Major Works contracts that will support the delivery of the Council’s Mayor's Accelerated Housing Programme.
Project: Mayor’s Accelerated Housing Programme | London Borough of Tower Hamlets
The purpose of this Prior Market Engagement is to provide advance notice of the Council’s proposed procurement and to inform interested parties of a forthcoming launch event for the anticipated procurement process. The launch event will provide the following information:
- An overview of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets’ Mayor's Accelerated Housing Programme
- Information about the 9 housing development sites in 'Batch 1' that we are seeking to procure a contractor (or contractors) to deliver
- A description of each of the housing development sites, including anticipated start and completion dates
- An outline of the indicative scope of the proposed contracts
- An indicative timetable for the procurement process
- A questionnaire inviting feedback from interested parties on the Council's proposed approach to procurement
This notice does not constitute a call for competition. Attendance at the launch briefing on 26th and 27th May, is entirely voluntary and will not provide any advantage or disadvantage in any future procurement process.
Participation and attendance at the launch briefing, is entirely voluntary and will not form part of any selection, shortlisting or evaluation process in any subsequent procurement. All notes taken and materials used at the event will be published with the tender opportunity. Providers wishing to participate are asked to register their interest free of charge at the London Tenders Portal www.londontenders.org ↗ with reference DN815812.
Registration should include the name(s) of a maximum of 4 delegates and their roles that will be in attendance.
Slots will be allocated on a first come first served basis and the deadline for registration will be midday Friday, 22nd May 2026.
CPV: Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses · Overhaul and refurbishment work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Tower Hamlets buys Building construction work (CPV 4521), and who usually turns up
Tower Hamlets’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Building construction work (CPV 4521) →
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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
Here, local means registered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 75 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.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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 bid0% / 17%
2–367% / 26%
4–617% / 32%
7+17% / 26%
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 estimate36% / 32%
Within ±2%64% / 32%
Above estimate0% / 36%
Assess each lot i
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 4521Published estimate£166m
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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 47 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–326%
4–632%
7+26%
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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.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- 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
- 12 May 2026, 12:09 BST
- Last source update
- 12 May 2026, 12:09 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-043385- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069681Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 May 2026 → 7 Mar 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published163 days ago12 May 2026, 12:09 BST
- Market engagement153 days ago22 May 2026, 23:59 BST
Launch Briefing Invitation
Interested suppliers are invited to attend a procurement launch briefing at which the Council will present the vision for the Mayor's Accelerated Housing programme, proposed procurement approach and next steps. Briefing details are as follows:
Date:
- 9.15am - 5.00pm Tuesday, 26th May ( 5 x 1hr 15 mins slots)
- 9.15am - 5.00pm Wednesday, 27th May (5 x 1hr 15 mins slots)
Venue: Tower Hamlets Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1BJ
Providers wishing to participate are asked to register their interest free of charge at the London Tenders Portal www.londontenders.org ↗ with reference DN815812
Registration should include the name(s) of a maximum of 4 delegates and their roles that will be in attendance.
Slots will be allocated on a first come first served basis and the deadline for registration will be midday Friday, 22nd May 2026.
- Tender notice expected150 days ago25 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 135 days7 Mar 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 May 2026, 12:09 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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender