Official UK procurement notice
WP4181 Contract for the delivery of Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation with Intensive Housing Management/Support
Authority: Walsall Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWalsall Council is seeking to commission a service provider to deliver Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation for victims and survivors of domestic abuse.
The Council currently provides an 8-unit refuge (self-contained accommodation) alongside 19 dispersed units located within the community. Through this commissioning process, the Council is particularly interested in exploring opportunities to increase the provision of self-contained accommodation, as this model has been shown to improve outcomes for service users. Self-contained accommodation can better support a wider range of needs, including families with older male children, as well as individuals from protected characteristic groups, who may otherwise face barriers in accessing traditional refuge provision.
Refuge accommodation will be required to have on-site staff presence to ensure appropriate support and safeguarding for residents. The exact staffing arrangements, including hours of on-site provision, can be determined by the Service Provider as part of their proposed service model, provided that residents receive safe, responsive, and effective support.
Walsall Council is keen to engage with experienced providers to understand the range of possible delivery models, innovative approaches to accommodation and support, and the potential capacity within the market. Feedback received through this PME will help inform the Council's future commissioning approach and the design of the service delivery model.
Please note that this exercise does not form part of a formal procurement process and does not commit the Council to undertaking a procurement exercise at this stage. Any information provided by organisations will be treated in the strictest confidence and will be used solely to inform the Council's commissioning considerations. Information shared will not be disclosed to other organisations or potential bidders should a formal tender process take place in the future.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Walsall Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Walsall Council’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: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
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 West Midlands (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.
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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 66 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 bid20% / 17%
2–313% / 22%
4–613% / 18%
7+53% / 43%
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 estimate27% / 29%
Within ±2%67% / 64%
Above estimate7% / 7%
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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.
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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 #1Published estimate£1.1m
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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 2,768 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–322%
4–618%
7+43%
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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
- 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
- 13 Mar 2026, 10:19 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Mar 2026, 10:19 GMT
- Authority reference
WP4181- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-022761- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-066960Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Mar 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published221 days ago13 Mar 2026, 10:19 GMT
- Market engagement196 days ago7 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
This Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) process aims to inform potential suppliers and gather market intelligence.
The objectives of the PME process is as follows:
1.) To provide potential suppliers with insights into the service and to engage with them where appropriate.
2.) To better understand the current market and those suppliers already operating in the locality areas described above and whether there are potential organisations who are able to meet the delivery requirements of the specification.
3.) To inform the procurement process.
Completion and submission of the pre-market engagement questionnaire via the council's e-procurement portal in-tendhost.co.uk/walsallcouncil/aspx/… ↗
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 72 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Mar 2026, 10:19 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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender