Official UK procurement notice
NCHA202557- People System · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Nottingham Community Housing Association Limited (Housing)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNottingham Community Housing Association (NCHA) will presently be inviting tenders from organisations for the provision of a user friendly, intuitive Human Resources Information System (HRIS). We are looking for an integrated People System for best managing all standard People /HR processes, Recruitment and Payroll.
Specifically, we will be looking for an integrated People System that will enable the digital processing of all people management processes through the employee lifecycle, from hire to retire. We are interested in learning what potential solutions are available on the market that embrace latest technologies with a strong focus on providing first-rate user experiences including and/or have integrated links for:
Intuitive self-service and report generation for both employees and managers
Dynamic recruitment portal, including an applicant tracking system (ATS)
Payroll interface for salary, sickness absence overtime etc
Creating rota / rostering / work shift patterns
Learning Management System, including learning solutions and training records
- How the procedure runs: Staged Process
CPV: Software package and information systems · Time accounting or human resources software development services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Nottingham Community Housing Association Limited buys Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221), and who usually turns up
Nottingham Community Housing Association Limited’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: Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) →
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 East Midlands (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands.
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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 20 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.
Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.
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 bid4%
2–332%
4–633%
7+32%
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 estimate46%
Within ±2%34%
Above estimate20%
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 7221Published estimate£1.2m
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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 55 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–327%
4–625%
7+38%
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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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- 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
- 29 Jul 2026, 15:47 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Oct 2026, 16:00 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 30 Mar 2027
- Authority reference
NCHA202557- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097616- Accelerated
- Qualifying planned procurement notice
- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d6d2Find a Tender
- How it runs
Staged Process
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 18 Dec 2026, 11:00 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
29 Jul 2026 → 1 Apr 2028 · 7 dates- Planning notice published83 days ago29 Jul 2026, 15:47 BST
- Market engagement64 days ago17 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
We will be looking for an integrated People System that will enable the digital processing of all people management processes through the employee lifecycle, from hire to retire. We are interested in learning what potential solutions are available on the market that embrace latest technologies with a strong focus on providing first-rate user experiences including and/or have integrated links for:
- Intuitive self-service and report generation for both employees and managers
- Dynamic recruitment portal, including an applicant tracking system (ATS)
- Payroll interface for salary, sickness absence overtime etc
- Creating rota / rostering / work shift patterns
- Learning Management System, including learning solutions and training records.
- Latest notice published5 days ago15 Oct 2026, 16:00 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 34 days23 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 59 days18 Dec 2026, 11:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 161 days30 Mar 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts1 Apr 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
7 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 29 Jul 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Jul 2026, 15:47 BSTUK2
- Planned procurement notice published15 Oct 2026, 15:38 BSTUK3
- Published value updated to £1,200,00015 Oct 2026, 15:38 BSTwas £100
- Status changed to planned15 Oct 2026, 15:38 BST
- Procurement method changed15 Oct 2026, 15:38 BST
- Deadline published: 18 Dec 2026, 11:00 GMT15 Oct 2026, 15:38 BST
- Planned procurement notice published15 Oct 2026, 16:00 BSTUK3
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 (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specificationsAccess: First Stage documentation will be sent through on a UK4 tender notice
Notices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender