Official UK procurement notice
Specialist Immigration Advice Services (SIAS)
Authority: Greater London Authority·On behalf of: Transport for London
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Greater London Authority (GLA) is preparing to procure Specialist Immigration Advice Services (SIAS). This commissioning process presents a vital opportunity to reshape the future of rough sleeping services to achieve the Mayor's Rough Sleeping Plan of Action (www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategie… ↗) with the ambitious goal of ending rough sleeping in London by 2030. We are seeking to transform service delivery models to enable rough sleeping prevention alongside targeted and sustainable routes off the streets.
The Specialist Immigration Advice Services will provide specialist immigration advice for single adults sleeping rough, and those at risk of rough sleeping, who need support to clarify and/or regularise their immigration status so they can in turn prevent or end their rough sleeping. The services will support 4 or 5 of the London Sub-regions - to be determined - and will form an essential element of London's preventative and responsive rough sleeping support system for homeless single migrants.
The dates are indicative at this stage, with the intention being for the contract to commence between April and July 2027.
CPV: Legal advisory and information services · Legal advisory and representation services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Greater London Authority buys Legal advisory and representation services (CPV 7911), and who usually turns up
Greater London Authority’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: Legal advisory and representation services (CPV 7911) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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 79 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.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid50% / 50%
2–317% / 25%
4–60% / 13%
7+33% / 13%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate67%
Within ±2%25%
Above estimate8%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 7911Published estimate£27m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 253 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–325%
4–634%
7+30%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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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.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 21 May 2026, 14:17 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Jun 2026, 09:58 BST
- Authority reference
WS2987448064- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-053633- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069f50Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 May 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published154 days ago21 May 2026, 14:17 BST
- Latest notice published136 days ago8 Jun 2026, 09:58 BST
- Market engagement125 days ago18 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
A Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire will be open to engage all relevant organisations, including prospective referring agencies and suppliers of Specialist Immigration Advice Services (SIAS) and seek their input on:
- Contract structures to enable practical and flexible delivery and demonstrate value for money.
- Service innovations including specific interventions and revised delivery models to improve outcomes.
- Challenges and opportunities within the operating environment to achieve high performing services and maximise efficiencies.
- Pricing model options, including approaches to incorporating Legal Aid to support sustainable and effective delivery.
A SIAS prospectus should be obtained and read before responding to the questionnaire. The prospectus can be obtained by emailing [email protected].
If you have insights, experience, or proposals that could inform the design of future services, please complete our questionnaire forms.cloud.microsoft/e/DJNpEfiPkw ↗
This will be available from 11 am on Monday 8th June until 17:00 on Thursday 18th June.
If you experience any issues accessing or completing the form, or have specific questions about the engagement process, please contact us via email at: [email protected]
The first section of the questionnaire is open to all relevant organisations and it will gather broad feedback on how similar currently grant funded services are working and help inform the design of the future procured service model, ensuring it meets the needs of both clients and the wider support system.
For those respondents that indicate an interest in bidding, a second section of the questionnaire will open which will focus on supplier specific issues, including potential enablers and barriers to commissioning and delivery.
Please note that the values indicated in this notice reflect the provisional total value of all possible lots for up to 6 years, including potential use of options in the contracts for up to 50% of the core value. For the annual value please see the prospectus.
- Tender notice expected20 days ago1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 161 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 May 2026- Pipeline notice published21 May 2026, 14:17 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Jun 2026, 09:58 BSTUK2
- Published value published: £26,608,2128 Jun 2026, 09:58 BST
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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- Transport for LondonProcess contact pointProcuring entityThese organisations are carrying out the procurement, or part of it, on behalf of the contracting authorities.
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
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender