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Published 24 Mar 2026, 15:04 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

North Northamptonshire Council Housing Windows & Doors Renewals and Maintenance Contract

Authority: North Northamptonshire Council (Local council)

WorksUsing pre-Procurement Act commercial toolSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£2,255,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 5 Jul 2028 · starts 6 Jul 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

North Northamptonshire Council's ( here after referred to as 'The Council') Housing Maintenance & Development Services maintains c. 8,230 council owned dwellings across North Northamptonshire. The purpose of this contract would be to support the Council in window and door renewals and maintenance across the housing portfolio.

While "in-house" trade operatives are used for minor repairs there has been little large-scale capital investment in window/door works for over a decade and as a result, we are starting to see an increase in the number of windows/doors failing the Decent Homes Standard. To deliver this capital investment at scale, Housing Maintenance & Development Services require a flexible measured-term contract, where such work can easily be draw down.

CPV: Installation of door and window frames · Installation of door frames · Installation of doors and windows · Installation of doors and windows and related components · Installation of window frames

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How North Northamptonshire Council buys Joinery and carpentry installation work (CPV 4542), and who usually turns up

North Northamptonshire Council’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: Joinery and carpentry installation work (CPV 4542) →

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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 buyerNorth Northamptonshire Council · division 45
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: 33 of 35 known-size awards · market: CPV 4542 · East Midlands, n=26
94%81%

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 East Midlands.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 52 of 59 known-location awards · market: CPV 4542 · East Midlands, n=48
88%19%

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: 8 decided notices · market: CPV 4542 · East Midlands, n=12
32 days42 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 32 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 8 of 61 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4542 · East Midlands, n=47
13%32%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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 buyer8 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 45
13% had one bid
The market12 lots with bid counts · CPV 4542 · East Midlands
8% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid13% / 8%
Buyer: 1 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 12 lots with published bid counts.
2–338% / 8%
Buyer: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 12 lots with published bid counts.
4–613% / 33%
Buyer: 1 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 12 lots with published bid counts.
7+38% / 50%
Buyer: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 12 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 buyer9 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 45
56% below estimate
The market8 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4542 · East Midlands
50% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate56% / 50%
Buyer: 5 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%33% / 50%
Buyer: 3 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate11% / 0%
Buyer: 1 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 0 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 454224 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£2.3m
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 12 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet8% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 12 similar lots
1 bid8%
1 of 12 similar past lots received 1 bid (8%).
2–38%
1 of 12 similar past lots received 2–3 (8%).
4–633%
4 of 12 similar past lots received 4–6 (33%).
7+50%
6 of 12 similar past lots received 7+ (50%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 9 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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £2.3m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

Restricted route (Stage 2 ITT / Shortlist): Bidding is restricted to invited candidates who qualified at Stage 1. Uninvited suppliers cannot participate in this round.

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
Using pre-Procurement Act commercial tool
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Call-off under a framework
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
24 Mar 2026, 15:04 GMT
Last source update
24 Mar 2026, 15:04 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-026916
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Installation of door and window framesInstallation of door framesInstallation of doors and windowsInstallation of doors and windows and related componentsInstallation of window frames
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF2)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0672fd Find a Tender
Related procedures1
  • Call-off under framework Communities and Housing Investment Consortium (CHIC) - Windows and Doors Framework

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

24 Mar 2026 → 6 Jul 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Planning notice published218 days ago
    24 Mar 2026, 15:04 GMT
  2. Contract starts114 days ago
    6 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    24 Mar 2026, 15:04 GMT
    UK1

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

North Northamptonshire Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PQCM-5634-HGCN The Corby Cube, George Street, Corby, East Midlands, NN17 1QGContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender