Planning

Choice Based Letting system - Soft Market Test Only. Published via the CHEST ref DN807962

  • Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2026/S 000-016656

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-065b85

Published 24 February 2026, 4:51pm



Scope

Description

Tameside Council is inviting the industry to innovate and collaborate on a solution to manage our housing register and allocations services to enable our capabilities related to supporting our residents with their housing needs. We are looking for a Choice based lettings system which can be accessed by approximately 150 officers concurrently this would include registered social providers in Tameside to include partner access.

The contract for the current housing system ends on the 31st of May 2027.

TMBC currently have approx. 1400 customers active on the housing register, with approximately 1800 applications awaiting assessment.

The system would also need to transfer applications for our partner agencies of around 6000 applications.

We would like to take the opportunity to do some soft market testing, to determine current interest levels in the market.

Total value (estimated)

  • £10 excluding VAT
  • £12 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 April 2026 to 1 May 2026
  • 1 month, 1 day

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 70333000 - Housing services

Contract locations

  • UKC - North East (England)
  • UKD - North West (England)
  • UKE - Yorkshire and the Humber
  • UKF - East Midlands (England)
  • UKG - West Midlands (England)
  • UKH - East of England
  • UKI - London
  • UKJ - South East (England)
  • UKK - South West (England)

Engagement

Engagement deadline

23 February 2026

The engagement was carried out before this notice was published.

Engagement process description

The soft market testing has been published via the CHEST Portal, ref DN807962

Tameside Council is inviting the industry to innovate and collaborate on a solution to manage our housing register and allocations services to enable our capabilities related to supporting our residents with their housing needs. We are looking for a Choice based lettings system which can be accessed by approximately 150 officers concurrently this would include registered social providers in Tameside to include partner access.

The contract for the current housing system ends on the 31st of May 2027.

TMBC currently have approx. 1400 customers active on the housing register, with approximately 1800 applications awaiting assessment.

The system would also need to transfer applications for our partner agencies of around 6000 applications.

We would like to take the opportunity to do some soft market testing to determine current interest levels in the market.


Contracting authority

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PVWB-2493-LWTQ

Tameside One

Ashton under Lyne

OL6 0GS

United Kingdom

Region: UKD35 - Greater Manchester South East

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government