Official UK procurement notice
RHA_294_Appointment of Main Contractor_4 Social Housing Units_Bushmills
Authority: Rural Housing Association (Housing)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Contract is for the provision for 4 no. 3P/2B General Needs Apartments. The contract will be for approximately 12 months from date of award and is scheduled to start before end of March 2027.
Details of scheme is available on the Planning Portal Ref- LA01/2022/0205/F
Site investigation reports will be available at ITT stage.
CPV: Construction work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£950,000
- Value
- £950,000 exc. VAT · £1,140,000 inc. VAT
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
All information provided within PQQ Documentation
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Construction work (CPV 45) in Northern Ireland — and who usually turns up
Rural Housing Association has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the Northern Ireland market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Construction work (CPV 45) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Rural Housing Association
no contract notices in Construction work (CPV 45) in 36 months
Rural Housing Association has published no bid reports, no comparable estimate → award pairs and no award dates that this analysis can use — in Construction work (CPV 45) (36 months) or across all categories (24 months).
Northern Ireland · Construction work (CPV 45)
contract notices delivered in Northern Ireland in 36 months: 392 in division 45 (301 competed, 29 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 313 lots. 67 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 246 from older notices (bids received, middle 6).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 313 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 164 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 54 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 306 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 217 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on the Northern Ireland market’s usual movement over 164 lots (division 45), applied to the £950,000 estimate on this notice. The range comes from the region’s middle half.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Concession
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 30 Sept 2026, 15:56 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Sept 2026, 15:56 BST
- Authority reference
RHA_294- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077debFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via eTendersNI- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 21 Oct 2026, 15:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 20 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today30 Sept 2026, 15:56 BST
- Clarification questions byin 19 days20 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 21 days21 Oct 2026, 15:00 BST
- Contract startsin 120 days29 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published30 Sept 2026, 15:56 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender