Notice Information
Notice Title
Homeless Singles Supported Housing Service
Notice Description
Westminster City Council (WCC) are recommissioning their Homeless Singles Supported Housing Service (previously titled Transitional Housing Approach). The service is a pivotal and strategically aligned provision at the heart of the WCC's Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2024. This service is a cornerstone of our ambition to prevent homelessness, enhance recovery, and transform lives through a dynamic, tailored, and outcomes-driven approach. The Contract will deliver accommodation-based support to a portfolio of 58 bedspaces across six properties (three 24/7 staffed sites and three satellite step-downs units) based in Marylebone and Maida Vale. Referrals into the service will be single individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with associated complex support needs including mental and physical health, substance misuse and criminal behaviours. The referrals will be made by [not exclusively] Probation, Housing Solutions Service, Adult Social Care, Street Outreach Teams and Statutory Mental Health Services. Objectives of the Service is to appropriately support service users to gain independence, experience improved health and wellbeing, access education,employment and training and transition into longer term more stable accommodation. Effective partnerships with the referring agencies, third sector and community-based organisations will be instrumental to achieving the outcomes required The estimated commencement date of this contract 01/01/2026. The estimated service commencement date is 01/04/2026. The initial term of the contract is a 3 years. The Contract may, at the Authority's discretion, be extended for a further period of up to an aggregate of two (2) years, with a total contract period of five years (calculated from the Service Commencement Date), expiring no later than 31 March 2031. During the Contract Period the Authority may, at its sole discretion, require additional Services to be delivered by the Provider, i.e. additional units of accomodation based support. Further details of this possible increase and how it may be implemented are set out in the Specification and Contract. As such, the Authority anticipates there could potentially be an increase in the total value of the Contract of up to 20% of its total 5 year budget. The budget published includes this 20% additional capacity. There will be a tender event will be conducted via Microsoft Teams on Monday 15th September 2025 This is an excellent opportunity to gain insights into the tender requirements, ask questions and provide feedback. Detailed tender opportunity can be found in the Invitation to tender and specification viewed via https://wcc.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/765717410198BDA6F7AC
Lot Information
Lot 1
Options: Depending on available budget and needs there maybe scope for additional bed spaces for the permitted extension period of up to 2 years beyond the initial 3 year term.
Renewal: The Authority shall be entitled at its absolute discretion to extend the Contract by a single period not exceeding two years
Planning Information
The date of the online consultation workshop event will be Thursday 17th April at 3pm to 4.30pm. The workshop will explore the commissioning of Westminster based supported accommodation and is primarily aimed at existing and potential suppliers of these services and suppliers of associated accommodation It will also explore the timescales for procurements the implementation of the recently adapted Responsible Procurement policy and its impact on tenders. To request your attendance please register by emailing schaudhry1@westminster.gov.uk - by end of 16th April 2025
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04fc49
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/084695-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK6 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85300000 - Social work and related services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £4,358,904 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £4,358,904 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- £3,597,420 £1M-£10M
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 19 Dec 20252 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 7 Oct 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 12 Jun 2025Expired
- Award Date
- 19 Dec 20252 months ago
- Contract Period
- 31 Mar 2026 - 31 Mar 2029 3-4 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Pending
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Salman Chaudhry
- Contact Email
- procurementteammailbox@westminster.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- SW1E 6QP
- Post Town
- South West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI35 Westminster and City of London
- Delivery Location
- TLI32 Westminster
-
- Local Authority
- Westminster
- Electoral Ward
- St James's
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/084695-2025
19th December 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/054789-2025
8th September 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/026602-2025
23rd May 2025 - Pipeline notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012635-2025
2nd April 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
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