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Published 24 Aug 2026, 15:25 BST

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Market Engagement Care for Precious House Care Home (focused on interventions to step across to family settings) and South Norwood Care Home (for Complex Needs).

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: London Borough of Croydon (Local council)

Services
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 4 Jan 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 7 yrsends 31 Mar 2035 · starts 1 Apr 2028

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This is not a Call for competition.

We are holding the first in a series of prospective bidder and stakeholder engagement sessions on 10th September 2026 . The purpose of this event is to bring together interested parties to explore interest in Care for Precious House Care Home and South Norwood Care Home for Complex Needs.

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 7 yrs
Contract period: 1 Apr 2028 – 31 Mar 2035 (7 yrs)
85000000 Health and social work services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How London Borough of Croydon buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up

London Borough of Croydon’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: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →

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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 buyerLondon Borough of Croydon · division 85
The marketHealth and social work services (CPV 85) · Greater London (authority’s region)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 12 known-size awards · market: division 85 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=957
58%42%

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

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London (authority’s region).

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 12 of 16 known-location awards · market: division 85 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=1,297
75%60%

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

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 9 decided notices · market: division 85 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=191
97 days62 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 97 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 6 of 17 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 85 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=1,224
35%67%

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?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer15 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
13% had one bid
The market334 lots with bid counts · division 85 · Greater London (authority’s region)
26% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid13% / 26%
Buyer: 2 of 15 lots with published bid counts. Market: 87 of 334 lots with published bid counts.
2–347% / 33%
Buyer: 7 of 15 lots with published bid counts. Market: 111 of 334 lots with published bid counts.
4–627% / 24%
Buyer: 4 of 15 lots with published bid counts. Market: 81 of 334 lots with published bid counts.
7+13% / 16%
Buyer: 2 of 15 lots with published bid counts. Market: 55 of 334 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer10 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85
30% below estimate
The market212 lots with estimate and award · division 85 · Greater London (authority’s region)
37% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate30% / 37%
Buyer: 3 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 79 of 212 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%60% / 54%
Buyer: 6 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 115 of 212 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate10% / 8%
Buyer: 1 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 18 of 212 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 8584 monthsEstimate not published

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
i

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 334 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet26% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 334 similar lots
1 bid26%
87 of 334 similar past lots received 1 bid (26%).
2–333%
111 of 334 similar past lots received 2–3 (33%).
4–624%
81 of 334 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+16%
55 of 334 similar past lots received 7+ (16%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

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.

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
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
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
24 Aug 2026, 15:25 BST
Last source update
24 Aug 2026, 15:25 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-080466
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06eacd Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

24 Aug 2026 → 1 Apr 2028 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published66 days ago
    24 Aug 2026, 15:25 BST
  2. Market engagement51 days ago
    7 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST

    We are holding the first in a series of prospective bidder and stakeholder engagement sessions with interested providers. The purpose of these sessions is to bring together interested parties to explore interest in the delivery of Care for Precious House Care Home (focused on interventions to step across to family settings) and South Norwood Care Home (for Complex Needs).

    A briefing/information session to discuss the opportunity will be held on 10th September 2026 at 2pm. Please register your interest to participate in the briefing session by 7th September 2026. To do this go to our procurement portal by clicking on this link: London Borough of Croydon E-Procurement Site - Home (in-tendhost.co.uk) To sign up for the event, please create an account on the portal (which is free and only takes a couple of minutes) and then you will be able to click the ‘express your Interest’ button. Please make sure you send us a message via the correspondence area and include the following information:

    • Organisation name
    • Name & job title and email addresses of delegates

    Following this briefing/information session, if you are still interested, there will be additional options to explore the opportunity in more detail.

  3. Today
    29 Oct 2026
  4. Tender notice expectedin 67 days
    4 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract starts
    1 Apr 2028, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Aug 2026, 15:25 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

London Borough of Croydon

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJTH-3594-VXYL Bernard Wetherill House, Fell Road, Croydon, London, CR01EAContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure