Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 16 Apr 2026, 12:24 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Repairs & Empty Homes Technology Solution

Authority: The Guinness Partnership (Public body)

ServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Aug 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 1 Jan 2033 · starts 1 Jan 2028

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Guinness Partnership (TGP) is currently reviewing their systems architecture for repairs and empty homes, exploring the art of the possible, with either one system or multiple systems.

A preliminary market engagement will be conducted initially to inform the procurement approach and potential tender documentation.

The procurement approach is currently undecided and the route to market is therefore subject to change.

The key focus is understanding how TGP can leverage technology to achieve its target state vision and outcomes for the repairs service, specifically focused on:

  • Delivering a good, reliable, and safe repairs service that residents can trust
  • Early, proactive intervention
  • Accurate diagnosis and recording of repairs at first contact
  • Repairs delivered on time and in line with statutory and policy timescales
  • Reduced resident frustration and failure demand
  • Lower resident effort in accessing the service
  • Reduced cost of failure
  • Lower overall cost of the repairs service without compromising quality
  • Greater operational resilience
  • Clear and credible assurance that resident outcomes are being achieved

Suppliers participating in this PME event will not have any advantage over organisations who do not participate, and this market consultation is in no way a guarantee of future work.

CPV: Software package and information systems · Software supply services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 5 yrs

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

How The Guinness Partnership buys Software-related services (CPV 7226), and who usually turns up

The Guinness Partnership’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: Software-related services (CPV 7226) →

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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 buyerThe Guinness Partnership · division 72
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: 0 of 2 known-size awards · market: CPV 7226 · UK-wide, n=570
0 of 233%

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

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: 4 of 4 known-location awards · market: CPV 7226 · UK-wide, n=427
4 of 432%

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: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7226 · UK-wide, n=43
—54 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 54 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 3 of 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7226 · UK-wide, n=901
50%75%

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?

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 buyer12 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market74 lots with bid counts · CPV 7226 · UK-wide
27% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 27%
Buyer: 0 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 20 of 74 lots with published bid counts.
2–30% / 31%
Buyer: 0 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 23 of 74 lots with published bid counts.
4–650% / 20%
Buyer: 6 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 74 lots with published bid counts.
7+50% / 22%
Buyer: 6 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 16 of 74 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer11 lots with estimate and award · all categories
36% below estimate
The market45 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7226 · UK-wide
58% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate36% / 58%
Buyer: 4 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 26 of 45 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%18% / 24%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 11 of 45 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate45% / 18%
Buyer: 5 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 45 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 722660 monthsEstimate not published
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 74 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet27% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 74 similar lots
1 bid27%
20 of 74 similar past lots received 1 bid (27%).
2–331%
23 of 74 similar past lots received 2–3 (31%).
4–620%
15 of 74 similar past lots received 4–6 (20%).
7+22%
16 of 74 similar past lots received 7+ (22%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

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
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
16 Apr 2026, 12:24 BST
Last source update
16 Apr 2026, 13:31 BST
Authority reference
RFX1000279
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-034703
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systemsSoftware supply services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068413 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

16 Apr 2026 → 1 Jan 2028 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published192 days ago
    16 Apr 2026, 12:24 BST
  2. Market engagement170 days ago
    8 May 2026, 23:59 BST

    Please use the following URL to access the opportunity on the ProActis eSourcing Procurement portal:

    supplierlive.proactisp2p.com ↗

    Opportunity Reference: RFX1000279

    To access the full opportunity and respond, you will need to access or create a ProActis account.

    Once you access the opportunity you will be able to download the full PME document which includes a questionnaire to be completed and returned by the deadline indicated.

  3. Tender notice expected85 days ago
    1 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    25 Oct 2026
  5. Contract starts
    1 Jan 2028

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 16 Apr 2026
  1. Pipeline notice published
    16 Apr 2026, 12:24 BST
    UK1
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    16 Apr 2026, 13:31 BST
    UK2

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

THE GUINNESS PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-COH: IP031693 · GB-PPON: PBNQ-4523-TMYT 7th Floor, 350 Euston Road, London, London, NW1 3AXContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure