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

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

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.

Classification

  • CPV70333000 — Housing services

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
ocds-h6vhtk-065b85
Main Procurement Category
services
Above Threshold
No
Status
planning

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
planning

Contract period

Starts
1 Apr 2026, 00:00
Ends
1 May 2026, 23:59

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
70333000
Description
Housing services

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKC
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 2
Region
UKD
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 3
Region
UKE
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 4
Region
UKF
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 5
Region
UKG
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 6
Region
UKH
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 7
Region
UKI
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 8
Region
UKJ
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 9
Region
UKK
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Planning and budget

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
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.
Date Met
23 Feb 2026, 00:00
Status
met

Documents

Entry 1
Id
016656-2026
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Published
24 Feb 2026, 16:51
Format
text/html

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
Id
GB-PPON-PVWB-2493-LWTQ

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PVWB-2493-LWTQ

Address

Street Address
Tameside One
Locality
Ashton under Lyne
Postal Code
OL6 0GS
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKD35

Contact

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

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

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Ashton under Lyne · UKD35 · OL6 0GS · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKC · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKD · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKE · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKF · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKG · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKH · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKI · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKJ · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKK · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

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