Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement for the provision of an Extra Care Scheme at Manor Park in Nuneaton
Authority: Warwickshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWarwickshire County Council (the Council) aspires to increase the number of Extra Care Housing ECH within the County and are seeking to understand market interest. The Council are looking to explore ways in which a provider can obtain funding to design, build and operate an extra care housing scheme which will include including the provision of care services for older people on part of the site of the former Manor Park Community School in Nuneaton, Warwickshire (off Beaumont Road, CV11 5HJ).
The proposed site comprises of approximately 0.74 Hectares (1.82 Acres) to be developed is covered by Outline Planning Permission, granted by Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council.
An adjacent part of the site is being developed by Warwickshire Property Development Group, for the provision of general needs housing - this area is not subject to market testing activity.
The Extra Care Scheme will need to integrate with the general needs housing development and both the ECH and general needs housing design will need to complement each other.
The overall purpose of an Extra Care Housing scheme is to provide safe and secure self-contained accommodation suitable for customers aged 55+ who require varying levels of support to enable them to live independently in a home environment.
The potential scheme will be expected to be managed by a Registered Provider (i.e. an organisation registered with the Regulator for Social Housing) and have an agreed onsite care provider (by way contact/agreement between registered provider and care provider). The agreed care provider would also be contracted by the Council on a "spot" basis for the provision of care and support for people with care and support needs as assessed under the Care Act 2014.
The care provider must be registered with the Care Quality Commission to deliver this type of care and support.
We are seeking to explore innovative ways of delivering an operational scheme on the site and explore the model of development and funding that would be required to deliver the scheme. This activity also provides the opportunity for organisations to contribute ideas as to how the services may be developed for people needing this type of service.
CPV: Construction work · Health and social work services · Real estate services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Warwickshire County Council buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up
Warwickshire County 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: Construction work (CPV 45) →
How the contest usually goes
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 52 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid18% / 14%
2–326% / 26%
4–630% / 23%
7+26% / 37%
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 estimate18% / 39%
Within ±2%68% / 35%
Above estimate13% / 27%
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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.
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Lot #1CPV 45Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 45. The comparison uses that group.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 218 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid14%
2–326%
4–623%
7+37%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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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.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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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
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 May 2025, 16:51 BST
- Last source update
- 10 Mar 2026, 13:24 GMT
- Authority reference
WAR-0051- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-021328- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051bfcFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 May 2025 → 1 Mar 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published21 May 2025, 16:51 BST
- Latest notice published229 days ago10 Mar 2026, 13:24 GMT
- Market engagement198 days ago10 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
We are seeking to explore innovative ways of delivering an operational scheme on the site and explore the model of development and funding that would be required to deliver the scheme. This activity also provides the opportunity for organisations to contribute ideas as to how the services may be developed for people needing this type of service. This may involve meeting with some parties to discuss their responses.
Warwickshire County Council will be using its new e-tendering system (In-Tend Warwickshire County Council) for the administration of this market engagement process. Providers must register with the system to be able to express an interest and download documents.
The web address for the portal is:
in-tendhost.co.uk/warwickshirecc/aspx/… ↗
Registration and use of our portal is free.
When registering you will be re-directed to the In-Tend sell2midlands site. If you already registered and have issues logging in then you may need to re-set your password. You will need to select "Log in to portal" next to Warwickshire County Council.
All correspondence or clarifications relating to this procurement must be via the portals' correspondence function. If you are having trouble registering with the portal, please email us at: [email protected]
Providers must register on In-Tend and log in to our portal to express an interest in this project and to be able to correspond with us about this market engagement.
- Tender notice expected71 days ago15 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 127 days1 Mar 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 May 2025- Pipeline notice published21 May 2025, 16:51 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Mar 2026, 13:24 GMTUK2
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender