Official UK procurement notice
Specialised Supported Accommodation · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Ministry of Justice (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis notice is published in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 Preliminary Market Engagement Notice (UK2). It provides advance notice that the Ministry of Justice intends to conduct early market engagement to assess the markets interest in providing specialised supported accommodation for people leaving prison.
As a provider of specialist provision, you will be aware of the challenges faced by prison leavers who require additional support while on licence in the community. We are looking at ways to improve and streamline the referral process for people leaving prison with multiple complex needs who have identified that they require further support.
To do this, we are seeking a clearer understanding of the current landscape of specialised provision for individuals with multiple disadvantages.
We are also keen to build a better picture of existing referral routes into your services and to understand where improvements could support HMPPS in making timely and informed referrals.
As part of this work, we are exploring whether a digital solution could help manage referrals more effectively. We are interested in your views on whether such a system would be helpful, what value it could add for your organisation, and how it might improve the visibility and accessibility of available provision.
There is currently no funding available for this opportunity, and instead we are looking for suppliers who already operate within the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, who may be able to use their charitable endeavours or other income streams to fund this service.
We would therefore be grateful if you could complete the short survey attached to our e-sourcing portal, Jaggaer, by 25 March 2026. Your feedback will play an important role in shaping our understanding of current practice and assessing the viability of a potential digital application.
This notice is for preliminary market engagement only and the Authority reserves the right to not proceed to tender.
CPV: Accommodation services · Other community, social and personal services · Social work services with accommodation
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Ministry of Justice buys Social work services (CPV 8531), and who usually turns up
Ministry of Justice’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Social work services (CPV 8531) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 49 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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?
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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.
1 bid10% / 23%
2–358% / 31%
4–620% / 20%
7+12% / 25%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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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.
Below estimate56% / 28%
Within ±2%30% / 61%
Above estimate15% / 11%
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.
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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 8531No real estimate
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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 103 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid23%
2–331%
4–620%
7+25%
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Mar 2026, 09:26 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Mar 2026, 11:10 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-022835- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06692eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Mar 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published222 days ago13 Mar 2026, 09:26 GMT
- Market engagement209 days ago25 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
The Authority seeks to understand market interest. If your organisation is interested in this activity, please register on MoJ’s e-procurement portal (Jaggaer) with the below link.
ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk ↗
Please then search for PQQ_568 to and complete the survey to register your interest.
Within PQQ_568 in Jaggaer, you will be required to respond to the survey by 17:00 25 March 2026.
The Authority requires information on your capability and capacity to provide the services detailed.
Once the completed survey has been received, the Authority may be in touch via the Jaggaer portal with further information, questions or details of possible engagement events.
If there are any issues with completing the form, then please email [email protected]
The information contained in this notice, including information relating to the nature and scope of the requirements, the estimated value, the service classification of this requirement and the list of CPV codes, is only indicative of current thinking and is neither exhaustive nor binding and the Authority reserves the right at its absolute discretion to amend it at the time of issue of any further notices or at any other time. The publication of this notice in no way obliges the Authority to commence any competitive tender process. The Authority is not and shall not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in participating in this preliminary market engagement exercise.
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 132 days1 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 222 days1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 13 Mar 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Mar 2026, 09:26 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Mar 2026, 11:10 GMTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender