Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 29 Apr 2026, 17:25 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Market Engagement Questionnaire - Delivery of a Complex Needs Housing Navigator (CNHN)

Authority: Oldham Council (Local council)

Services
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Jun 2026from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This is a market engagement survey, please see the link in the advert. This must be completed by no late than close of business 31st April.

This was previously advertised under 2026/S 000-034519 but the MS Forms has corrupted some of the data so had to add a new link and extend by a day.

CPV: Community action programme

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1CNHN to Support People in Substance Use Treatment (Oldham)Planned

CNHN to Support People in Substance Use Treatment (Oldham)

This market engagement questionnaire is intended for organisations with relevant experience supporting people with complex needs, including substance use and/or housing and homelessness needs. Responses from unrelated sectors will not be considered.

Purpose: The proposed contract will fund 1 FTE Complex Needs Housing Navigator role, delivered by a provider working in close partnership with Turning Point, to support clients in treatment who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and who, without additional support, would disengage from treatment.

Aim: To support a select cohort of Oldham residents, who are accessing treatment for a substance use disorder or/and in recovery (drugs or alcohol) and are also experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness.

Outcomes and Key Deliverables: To provide robust, safe support for people who are homeless and in treatment or need treatment for a substance use disorder. The following objectives should be met;

To improve support and access to mental health services for those with co-occurring conditions.

To improve access to housing options services for those with substance use and addiction needs.

To enhance engagement and trust with both drug and alcohol treatment services and housing options services.

To provide wrap-around care and support for individuals, supporting with a wide range of health and wellbeing interventions.

To build strong working relationships between housing options and drug/alcohol misuse services.

To co-locate at Turning Point hub and work closely with Recovery Workers to provide holistic support such as, but not restricted too, registering with a GP, bidding on the housing register, accessing mental health support, attending appointments and benefit claims.

To support improvement of treatment engagement for clients in treatment (measured via NDTMS LOF) Additional information: Link to access survey:

forms.office.com/e/cTBu9AX9ud ↗

Delivery: North West

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Oldham Council buys Social services (CPV 8532), and who usually turns up

Oldham Council’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: Social services (CPV 8532) →

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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 buyerOldham Council · division 85
The marketSocial services (CPV 8532) · North West England
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: 9 of 11 known-size awards · market: CPV 8532 · North West England, n=69
82%46%

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.

Here, local means registered in North West England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 22 of 26 known-location awards · market: CPV 8532 · North West England, n=90
85%66%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North West England.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 14 decided notices · market: CPV 8532 · North West England, n=11
66 days68 days

Half of these awards were announced within 66 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.

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 25 of 27 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8532 · North West England, n=151
93%87%

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 buyer13 lots with bid counts · all categories
8% had one bid
The market18 lots with bid counts · CPV 8532 · North West England
17% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid8% / 17%
Buyer: 1 of 13 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
2–369% / 28%
Buyer: 9 of 13 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
4–615% / 33%
Buyer: 2 of 13 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
7+8% / 22%
Buyer: 1 of 13 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 18 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer10 lots with estimate and award · all categories
50% below estimate
The market12 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8532 · North West England
33% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate50% / 33%
Buyer: 5 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 12 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%30% / 58%
Buyer: 3 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 7 of 12 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20% / 8%
Buyer: 2 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 12 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 #1CNHN to Support People in Substance Use Treatment (Oldham)CPV 8532Estimate not published
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 18 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet17% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 18 similar lots
1 bid17%
3 of 18 similar past lots received 1 bid (17%).
2–328%
5 of 18 similar past lots received 2–3 (28%).
4–633%
6 of 18 similar past lots received 4–6 (33%).
7+22%
4 of 18 similar past lots received 7+ (22%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
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
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
29 Apr 2026, 17:25 BST
Last source update
29 Apr 2026, 17:32 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-039495
Classification (CPV)
Community action programme
Delivery area
North West (UKD37)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068e7d Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

29 Apr 2026 → 1 Jun 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published176 days ago
    29 Apr 2026, 17:32 BST
  2. Tender notice expected144 days ago
    1 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 releases on Find a Tender
Published amendments (1)

Please ignore this notice

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

Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityHealth Spindles Shopping Centre, West Street, Oldham, North West, OL11HDContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.