Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 18 Dec 2025, 16:06 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of supported accommodation

Authority: Westminster City Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£2,524,729pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 17 Aug 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Mar 2029 · up to 31 Mar 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Support for Complex Singles accommodated in dispersed units including Bruce House and the Move on and Resettlement Service

CPV: Health and social work services · Other community, social and personal services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2029 (2 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2031 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Westminster City Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up

Westminster City 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: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →

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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 buyerWestminster City Council · division 85
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 34 of 57 known-size awards · market: division 85 · UK-wide, n=6,492
60%51%

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 38 of 48 known-location awards · market: division 85 · UK-wide, n=8,095
79%75%

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: 7 decided notices · market: division 85 · UK-wide, n=1,033
146 days51 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 146 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 33 of 55 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 85 · UK-wide, n=7,412
60%67%

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?

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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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer27 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
33% had one bid
The market2,289 lots with bid counts · division 85 · UK-wide
24% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid33% / 24%
Buyer: 9 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 560 of 2,289 lots with published bid counts.
2–337% / 34%
Buyer: 10 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 781 of 2,289 lots with published bid counts.
4–626% / 24%
Buyer: 7 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 546 of 2,289 lots with published bid counts.
7+4% / 18%
Buyer: 1 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 402 of 2,289 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 buyer31 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85
26% below estimate
The market1,402 lots with estimate and award · division 85 · UK-wide
27% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate26% / 27%
Buyer: 8 of 31 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 384 of 1,402 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%71% / 63%
Buyer: 22 of 31 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 879 of 1,402 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate3% / 10%
Buyer: 1 of 31 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 139 of 1,402 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 8524 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£2.5m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
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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 2,289 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet24% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 2,289 similar lots
1 bid24%
560 of 2,289 similar past lots received 1 bid (24%).
2–334%
781 of 2,289 similar past lots received 2–3 (34%).
4–624%
546 of 2,289 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+18%
402 of 2,289 similar past lots received 7+ (18%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £2.5m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
The Riverside Group LimitedEarlier contractWomen’s Supported Accommodationstarted Aug 2026Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage Accommodation-Based Support£5.0mMatched as the earlier contract
St Mungo Community Housing AssociationEarlier contractWomen’s Supported Accommodationstarted Aug 2026Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and Multiple Disadvantage Accommodation Based Support£4.9mMatched as the earlier contract
RefugeEarlier contractWomen’s Supported Accommodationstarted Aug 2026Domestic Abuse Refuge for Women and Children Accommodation-Based Support£1.9mMatched as the earlier contract

Who could compete for this lot?
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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.

What this replaces
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

57% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (57% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Women’s Supported Accommodation — held by The Riverside Group Limited and St Mungo Community Housing Association (+1 more); no contract end date published.

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
18 Dec 2025, 16:06 GMT
Last source update
26 May 2026, 18:55 BST
Authority reference
PRJ_30873
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-049266
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work servicesOther community, social and personal services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f999 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

18 Dec 2025 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published311 days ago
    18 Dec 2025, 16:06 GMT
  2. Market engagement283 days ago
    14 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Please note that you will need to access Westminster's procurement portal to access the Market Sounding Questionnaire- Our eSourcing and Contract Management Solution | Westminster City Council

    Please send your responses (and any questions) via Jaggaer by searching for Supported Accommodation for Complex Singles by uploading your response as an attachment. All responses are to be submitted via Jaggaer no later than Wednesday 14th January 2026 by 5pm.

  3. Latest notice published151 days ago
    26 May 2026, 18:55 BST
  4. Tender notice expected68 days ago
    17 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
  5. Today
    25 Oct 2026
  6. Contract startsin 158 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 18 Dec 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    18 Dec 2025, 16:06 GMT
    UK2
  2. Pipeline notice published
    26 May 2026, 18:55 BST
    UK1
  3. Status changed to planned
    26 May 2026, 18:55 BST

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

Westminster City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJVD-6261-BPPJ 64 Victoria Street, London, London, SW1E 6QPContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure