Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Security Services
Authority: Radius Housing Association (Housing)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionRadius Housing wishes to appoint one suitably qualified and experienced firm to supply and operate security services at Radius Housing sites within Northern Ireland. This requires the provision of services at across Northern Ireland, ranging from sheltered accommodation, general needs accommodation, housing with care and commercial / office sites. Services shall be provided in accordance with the minimum standards of current relevant legislation, guidance and good practice, and will include:
- Manned/Static Security Service (Ad-hoc and reoccurring)
- Routine Mobile Patrols (Ad-hoc and reoccurring)
- ASB Response Service
- Fire Warden Service
- Emergency Key Holding (including Fire and Intruder Alarm Response) to include emergency call out service
- Accompanying staff to properties where a safety risk has been identified
- Personal service of legal documentation on behalf of Association
- Void Property Check as agreed with the Radius Asset Team, on a two (2) weekly basis (inspection service of property doors, windows, roof and area inside letterbox)
- Opening and closing of playparks
CPV: Security services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- 8 Oct 2025, 16:26 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Oct 2025, 16:26 BST
- Authority reference
RAD151- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-063433- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Oct 2025 → 1 May 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published378 days ago8 Oct 2025, 16:26 BST
- Market engagement356 days ago29 Oct 2025, 23:59 GMT
Radius Housing wishes to engage with the market to seek their views on establishing a robust, value for money contract for the provision of Security Services. Any information gathered through this market consultation exercise will inform internal business planning and any possible subsequent procurement process and will NOT be appraised in any future tender evaluation exercise. Please note that participation or non-participation in this preliminary market consultation exercise shall not prevent any supplier from participating in any potential procurement process, nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any supplier at an advantage or disadvantage in any forthcoming procurement process. For the avoidance of doubt, this is the scoping phase of the project and is not part of a formal procurement process. Suppliers who wish to participate in the market engagement exercise should complete the pre-market engagement questionnaire. Further information including the questionnaire can be downloaded from CfT documents. The Questionnaire must be completed and PME Document signed and returned via the Messaging function of eTendersNI by no later than 3pm on Wednesday 29th October 2025 (deadline) in accordance with the instructions detailed in the PME Questionnaire document. There are no formal tender documents to be completed other than the questionnaire.
- Contract starts174 days ago1 May 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Oct 2025, 16:26 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender