Official UK procurement notice
West Northamptonshire Council Supported Housing Needs Assessment
Authority: West Northamptonshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWest Northamptonshire Council (WNC) is exploring market interest and capability to deliver a comprehensive Supported Housing Needs Assessment (SHNA). This work is required to support the Council in meeting new statutory obligations to develop Local Supported Housing Strategy introduced by the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023 (SHROA), which came into force on 29 August 2023.
The needs assessment commissioned through this process will form the evidence base for WNC's first Local Supported Housing Strategy which must be published by 31 March 2027 and must adhere to all statutory requirements under SHROA.
Scope of Services
West Northamptonshire requires a detailed understanding of current and future need across a range of cohorts including (but not limited to):
- Older people
- Physical disabilities and long-term conditions
- Mental Health
- Learning disabilities, autism and complex needs
- Homeless and rough sleepers households
- Young people including care leavers
- Substance Misuse
- Offenders and those at risk of offending,
- Domestic abuse victims/survivors (not in scope)
- Any additional specialist cohorts identified locally
Purpose of the Market Engagement
Given the breadth and complexity of the required assessment, the Council wishes to engage with interested organisations to discuss and seek views on proposals for this new contract. This will include:
- Gather market insight to understand current approaches, methodologies, and innovations in the delivery of supported housing needs assessments.
- Market capacity for the project
- Suggestions around engagement with other parties including effective approaches for involving registered providers, support providers, health partners, voluntary and community organisations, developers, and lived‑experience groups.
- Timescales for completing the SHNA
- Broad estimate of project value to help determine the procurement route and budget parameters
This soft market engagement is not a call for competition, a prequalification exercise, or an invitation to tender. It is exclusively an information gathering exercise.
CPV: Business analysis consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How West Northamptonshire Council buys Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222), and who usually turns up
West Northamptonshire Council’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: Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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1 bid2% / 0%
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4–69% / 25%
7+85% / 25%
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Below estimate16% / 18%
Within ±2%53% / 55%
Above estimate32% / 27%
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Lot #1CPV 7222Published estimate£55k
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1 bid9%
2–329%
4–625%
7+38%
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A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| QA LimitedEarlier contract | West Northamptonshire Council Data and IT Apprenticeshipsstarted Nov 2025 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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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.
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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
- 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
- 26 Feb 2026, 15:33 GMT
- Last source update
- 27 Feb 2026, 08:57 GMT
- Authority reference
WNC00000624- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-017660- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065d5bFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 Feb 2026 → 17 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published244 days ago26 Feb 2026, 15:33 GMT
- Market engagement237 days ago4 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
How to register
Date: Friday 06 March 2026
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: MS Teams - link upon request to [email protected]
A short presentation from WNC will be followed by Q&A and an open discussion.
How to participate
We hope you can join us. To register for the event please email [email protected] by 04 March 2026 12pm noon. Please specify the email addresses of those to be sent invites.
As this is an MS Teams event representation will be limited to three people per organisation.
- Contract starts194 days ago17 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 26 Feb 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 Feb 2026, 15:33 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Feb 2026, 08:57 GMTUK2
- Published value updated27 Feb 2026, 08:57 GMT
Published amendments (1)
Estimated value updated.
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