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title: "Soft Market Testing - Rough Sleeper Navigators"
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# Soft Market Testing - Rough Sleeper Navigators

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/soft-market-testing-rough-sleeper-navigators-ocds-h6vhtk-04c58f). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** City of London: "Soft Market Testing - Rough Sleeper Navigators". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [City of London](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/city-of-london-ons-e09000001)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health and social work services
- **Delivery Location:** UKI
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04c58f`

## 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/soft-market-testing-rough-sleeper-navigators-ocds-h6vhtk-04c58f#tl-md)

## Description
The City of London Corporation (the ‘City’) is carrying out Pre-procurement market engagement (‘PPME’) in relation to the Rough Sleeper Navigators.
The City of London is currently facing high numbers of street homelessness within the Square Mile. 
A rough sleepers Navigator service is additional to the City’s Street Outreach Service and targeted at working with the most prolific and entrenched rough sleepers who are either identified as Target 1000 clients or classed as “Living On the Streets”.
Rough Sleeper Navigators is currently a shared service, commissioned by Tower Hamlets, however the intention of the City of London Corporation Homelessness and Rough Sleeper Service is to commission a City specific service for the next 18 months plus whilst a third party review of all rough sleeper interventions is underway.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 85000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKI

- **Description:** This is a soft market testing exercise in relation to an upcoming requirement the City of London
Corporation (the City) has for a new Rough Sleeper Navigators.
The soft market testing will involve the submission of the SMT questionnaire — to be recei...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F039577-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-12-09T11:27:15.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T10:22:07.191Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04c58f