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Housing Allocations and Homelessness Management Solution - Soft Market Testing

West Northamptonshire Council · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

WNC is inviting the industry to innovate and collaborate on a solution to manage our housing register, allocations and homelessness services to enable our capabilities related to supporting our residents with their housing needs. The contracts for the both the current incumbent solutions ends on the 31st of March 2026. WNC currently have approx 2,000 customers active on the housing register, with approximately 3,000 applications awaiting assessment. Our incumbent Social Housing Management Solution is accessed by approximately 200 officers concurrently although this includes the landlord function. Our incumbent Homeless management solution is accessed by approximately 100 officers daily. WNC has, on average, 450 homeless approaches per month and currently has around 1800 open homeless cases in spanning relief, approach, main duty and prevention. There are currently up to 800 households placed in Temporary accommodation including placements in our own stock for which we would need to access rent accounts and process invoices. The system also ensures that WNC holds and maintains all data in relation to customers, properties and tenancy agreements.

Classification

  • CPV48000000 — Software package and information systems

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
WNCSMTKL260725
Status
planning
Above Threshold
Yes
Main Procurement Category
goods

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
planning

Contract period

Ends
31 Mar 2030, 23:59
Starts
1 Apr 2026, 00:00

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKF24
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 2
Region
UKF24
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 3
Region
UKF24
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
48000000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Software package and information systems

Planning and budget

Documents

Entry 1
Id
043336-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Published
28 Jul 2025, 10:17
Entry 2
Id
046192-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Published
5 Aug 2025, 14:48
Entry 3
Id
047922-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Published
12 Aug 2025, 10:53

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Status
scheduled
Due
15 Aug 2025, 23:59
Description
We are looking for input from the market that will help us to develop a service, comprising of one or more solutions that will provide: • A service that matches WNC's economic, environmental, and social values • Is fit for purpose for a modern, forward-thinking organisation. • Value for money for the taxpayers Your solution should support WNC in effectively and efficiently delivering one or more homelessness functions, including: • Housing Register  Application & registration  Assessment & banding  Bidding & property matching  Shortlisting & offers • Housing Assessment • Housing approach and pathways • Triage • PHPs • Temporary Accommodation placement management • Temporary Accommodation property inventory • Temporary Accommodation rent accounting • Temporary Accommodation Placement invoicing • Temporary Accommodation Move out property management • Reporting, auditing and trend analysis Capabilities provided by the incumbent system are completed by integrating with: • Infinity - Tenancy management, rent accounting, repairs Incumbent solution also integrates with WNC strategic solutions including: • TouchRight - Temporary Accommodation move out property management • Open Housing - Tenancy management & housing allocations • HeyCentric - Income Management System • Civica Digital360 - EDRMS • Unit4 ERP - General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable • Capita One Academy - Revenues & Benefits posting of benefits to individual rent accounts To request the soft market testing document for completion, please email procurement@westnorthants.gov.uk. Please note that the deadline for returns is 23:59 on 15th August 2025 (extended 12/08/25).

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-PPON-PGDV-8944-CMBP
Name
West Northamptonshire Council

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKF24
Country
GB
Locality
Northampton
Postal Code
NN1 1ED
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Angel Street

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Description
Public authority - sub-central government

Identifier

Id
PGDV-8944-CMBP
Scheme
GB-PPON

Contact

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Northampton · UKF24 · NN1 1ED · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKF24 · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

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