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title: "Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Support Services"
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# Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Support Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/rough-sleeping-and-homelessness-support-services-ocds-h6vhtk-078fc3). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Reading Borough Council: "Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Support Services". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: £3,700,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Reading Borough Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/reading-borough-council-ons-e06000038)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £3,700,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Social work and related services
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ11
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/rough-sleeping-and-homelessness-support-services-ocds-h6vhtk-078fc3#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-078fc3`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/rough-sleeping-and-homelessness-support-services-ocds-h6vhtk-078fc3#tl-md)

## Description
Reading Borough Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement in advance of a planned procurement of rough sleeping and homelessness support services in early 2027.
The future commissioning programme will support delivery of the Council's Preventing Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2026-2031, which sets out a vision for homelessness and rough sleeping to be rare, brief and non-recurring. The strategy recognises that homelessness is driven by a range of factors, including housing affordability, health inequalities, trauma, financial hardship and social exclusion, and requires a coordinated response across housing, health, social care and community services.
The Council's priorities in the strategy are to:
•	Intervene early to prevent homelessness and rough sleeping
•	Break the cycle of homelessness and rough sleeping
•	Make sure everyone can access safe, settled and affordable housing
The Council is reviewing its current homelessness support services to ensure future services are prevention-focused, housing-led and capable of meeting the needs of people experiencing rough sleeping, homelessness and multiple disadvantage. Through this market engagement exercise, the Council is seeking feedback on the proposed service design, interfaces between services, delivery models, and the indicative funding envelopes.
This engagement is intended to inform the development of service specifications, procurement documents and commissioning arrangements and does not form part of any formal procurement process.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 85300000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 01/09/2027 to 31/08/2029
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F100824-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-10-26T09:27:31.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T00:44:31.706Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-078fc3