Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 23 Oct 2026, 17:06 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Roofing, Garage & Outbuilding Refurbishment Works

Authority: Eastlight Community Homes (Public body)

WorksAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£12,250,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 30 Jun 2030 · up to 30 Jun 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Jul 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Eastlight Community Homes invites experienced roofing, refurbishment and building contractors to participate in a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise for an upcoming procurement opportunity.

Eastlight is seeking feedback from the market to help shape the future delivery of roofing, garage and outbuilding refurbishment works across its housing portfolio.

The proposed procurement is expected to be divided into two Lots, and suppliers are invited to express an interest in one or both Lots.

Services in Scope

The proposed contract is expected to include:

Lot 1: Flat Roofing, Garage & Outbuilding Refurbishment Works, Including Wall Finishes

The anticipated scope may include:

•Flat roof repairs, refurbishment and replacement

•Garage refurbishment works

•Outbuilding refurbishment works

•Repairs and replacement of associated building components

•Wall repairs and wall finishing works

•Internal and external making good works

•Associated drainage and rainwater goods

•Minor structural and remedial works associated with the refurbishment

•Removal and disposal of existing materials

•Associated preparatory and finishing works

•Any ancillary works required to complete the refurbishment

Lot 2: Pitched Roofing Refurbishment Works, Including Fascias, Soffits, Bargeboards, Wall Finishes and PVs

The anticipated scope may include:

•Pitched roof repairs and refurbishment

•Roof covering replacement and renewal

•Fascia replacement and refurbishment

•Soffit replacement and refurbishment

•Bargeboard replacement and refurbishment

•External wall repairs and wall finishing works

•Solar PV installation, replacement and associated roofing works

•Associated electrical works relating to PV installations

•Roofline works

•Rainwater goods, including gutters and downpipes

•Making good and finishing works

•Removal and disposal of existing materials

•Any ancillary works required to complete the roofing refurbishment works

Suppliers may express an interest in Lot 1, Lot 2 or both Lots.

Portfolio

The contract is expected to support planned refurbishment and maintenance works across Eastlight's housing portfolio, including:

•General needs housing

•Supported housing schemes

•Sheltered accommodation

•Houses, flats and maisonettes

•Garages and associated outbuildings

•Properties located across Eastlight's operating area

•A mixture of void and occupied properties

Further details regarding property numbers, anticipated volumes, programme requirements and delivery timescales will be confirmed within the procurement documentation.

Invitation to Participate

Eastlight is inviting interested suppliers to complete a Market Engagement Survey to provide feedback on:

•Which Lot(s) suppliers would be interested in bidding for

•Market capacity and capability

•Delivery models and contract structure

•Mobilisation expectations

•Supply chain and subcontracting arrangements

•Resident engagement and customer experience

•Service standards and performance measures

•Management of occupied and void properties

•Sustainability and environmental considerations

•Digital reporting and asset management requirements

•Social value opportunities

•Innovation and industry best practice

•Risks and challenges affecting service delivery

•The proposed Lot structure and scope allocation

Your feedback will help inform the future procurement strategy, contract structure and service requirements. Participation in this exercise will not provide any supplier with an advantage in any future procurement process.

Who Should Participate?

We welcome responses from organisations with experience in:

•Flat roofing works

•Pitched roofing refurbishment and replacement programmes

•Garage refurbishment works

•Outbuilding refurbishment works

•Wall repairs and finishing works

•Fascia, soffit and bargeboard replacement

•Solar PV installations and associated roofing works

•Roofline and rainwater goods replacement

•Planned maintenance and refurbishment programmes

•Social housing repairs and investment programmes

•Resident liaison and access management

•Delivery of works within occupied and void properties

•Managing subcontractors and specialist supply chains

Suppliers do not necessarily need to provide all services directly and are encouraged to identify any elements of the proposed works that they would expect to subcontract.

How to Participate

Interested suppliers are requested to complete the Market Engagement Survey by 5pm, Friday 6th November 2026 using the Microsoft Forms link below.

MS Forms Survey Link: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/0wRiBSetGy ↗

When completing the survey, suppliers should clearly indicate whether they are interested in:

•Lot 1: Flat Roofing, Garage & Outbuilding Refurbishment Works, Including Wall Finishes

•Lot 2: Pitched Roofing Refurbishment Works, Including Fascias, Soffits, Bargeboards, Wall Finishes and PVs

•Both Lots

CPV: Electrical installation work · Facade work · Refurbishment work · Roof repair and maintenance work · Roof works and other special trade construction works · Roof-covering work · Solar panel roof-covering work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Eastlight Community Homes buys Other building completion work (CPV 4545), and who usually turns up

Eastlight Community Homes’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: Other building completion work (CPV 4545) →

1

How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerEastlight Community Homes · all categories
The marketOther building completion work (CPV 4545) · East of England
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: 2 of 8 known-size awards · market: CPV 4545 · East of England, n=97
25%70%

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. The market figure counts awards delivered in East of England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 5 known-location awards · market: CPV 4545 · East of England, n=108
60%40%

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: 4 decided notices · market: CPV 4545 · East of England, n=19
107 days41 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 107 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 8 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4545 · East of England, n=143
38%21%

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 buyer10 lots with bid counts · all categories
40% had one bid
The market28 lots with bid counts · CPV 4545 · East of England
18% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid40% / 18%
Buyer: 4 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 28 lots with published bid counts.
2–30% / 18%
Buyer: 0 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 28 lots with published bid counts.
4–650% / 25%
Buyer: 5 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 28 lots with published bid counts.
7+10% / 39%
Buyer: 1 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 11 of 28 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 buyerToo few to chart: 4 lots with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market33 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4545 · East of England
27% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate27%
Market: 9 of 33 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%45%
Market: 15 of 33 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate27%
Market: 9 of 33 lots with an estimate and award.
2

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 4536 monthsPublished estimate£12m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 45. The comparison uses that group.

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 275 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet11% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 275 similar lots
1 bid11%
31 of 275 similar past lots received 1 bid (11%).
2–323%
64 of 275 similar past lots received 2–3 (23%).
4–631%
85 of 275 similar past lots received 4–6 (31%).
7+35%
95 of 275 similar past lots received 7+ (35%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £12m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
Works
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
23 Oct 2026, 17:06 BST
Last source update
23 Oct 2026, 17:06 BST
Authority reference
EAST1080
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-100742
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Electrical installation workFacade workRefurbishment workRoof repair and maintenance workRoof works and other special trade construction worksRoof-covering workSolar panel roof-covering work
Delivery area
East of England (UKH3)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078f95 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
—

Timeline

23 Oct 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published1 day ago
    23 Oct 2026, 17:06 BST
  2. Today
    25 Oct 2026
  3. Market engagementin 13 days
    6 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Interested suppliers are invited to complete the market engagement survey. Feedback received will help shape the procurement strategy, contract structure and eventual procurement process.

  4. Contract startsin 249 days
    1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    23 Oct 2026, 17:06 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

Eastlight Community Homes

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PDRZ-7469-PLCL Eastlight House, Charter Way, Braintree, East of England, CM77 8FGContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure