Notice Information
Notice Title
WCC Housing First
Notice Description
Westminster City Council (WCC) are recommissioning Housing First Services in two Lots: - Lot 1 Housing First Support Service - Lot 2 Housing First Violence Against Women and Girl (VAWG) 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. Housing First is a widely renowned homelessness intervention strategy that prioritises providing permanent housing with high quality wraparound support. Its aims are for service users to retain their tenancies and graduate from intensive floating support to independence, therefore ending recurrent cycles of homelessness. Housing First has been an established commissioned service in Westminster since 2017. This procurement aims to continue delivering this service primarily for clients who are currently in social tenancies through Housing First and to allow flexibility to accommodate new service users where new tenancies become available. The overarching aim of this tender is to commission an intensive floating support model for Housing First, structured into two distinct lots: one providing a specialist service for women affected by Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) to support up to 36 women, and the other delivering a generic Housing First mixed gender service supporting up to 48 service users. The estimated Commencement Date of this contract is 03/02/2026. The estimated Service Commencement Date is 01/04/2026. The Initial Contract Period is 3 years, with provision for extension, at WCC's discretion, for up to a further 3 years (1+1+1 years), providing a total contract period of up to 6 years (calculated from the Service Commencement Date), expiring no later than 31 March 2032. During the Contract Period the Authority may, at its sole discretion, require additional Services to be delivered by the Provider, i.e. should additional tenancies or funding opportunities become available, in excess of the existing 48 Services Users, the Provider will liaise with the Authority to agree provisions. Any increase above the 48 places will be subject to funding availability and to the Authority's governance procedures. Any agreed scale-up of the Service would be aligned to Housing First model e.g. one extra worker per five to seven Service Users plus management support consideration. During the contract period the service may be scaled up to support an additional 10 -14 Service Users, this is subject to clause 47 of the Contract and is at the Authorities' discretion. The budget published does not include this additional capacity. There will be a tender event held via Microsoft Teams on Monday 20th October 2025. This is an excellent opportunity to gain insights into the tender requirements, ask questions and provide feedback.
Lot Information
Lot 1 Housing First Support Service
Lot 1 Housing First- For further details please refer to the ITT on Jaggaer PRJ_30525
Renewal: Provision for extension, at WCC's discretion, for up to a further 3 years (1+1+1 years), providing a total contract period of up to 6 years (calculated from the Service Commencement Date), expiring no later than 31 March 2032. For further details please refer to the ITT on Jaggaer PRJ_30525
Lot 2 Housing First Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)Lot 2 Housing First VAWG- for further details please refer to the ITT on Jaggaer PRJ_30525
Renewal: Provision for extension, at WCC's discretion, for up to a further 3 years (1+1+1 years), providing a total contract period of up to 6 years (calculated from the Service Commencement Date), expiring no later than 31 March 2032. For further details please refer to the ITT on Jaggaer PRJ_30525
Planning Information
The date of the online consultation workshop event will be Monday 23rd June at 1pm to 2.30pm. The workshop will explore the commissioning of Housing First support and accommodation WCC Housing Need and is primarily aimed at existing and potential suppliers of these services and suppliers of associated accommodation. It will also explore the timescales for procurement, the implementation of the recently adapted Responsible Procurement policy and its impact on tenders. We can also hold one-to-one meetings with providers following the market engagement, please let us know if you would like a meeting arranged by contacting the email address below. To request your attendance please register by emailing sedwards@westminster.gov.uk - by end of 22 June 2025.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-054516
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/063495-2025
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK4 - Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
70 - Real estate services
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
70333000 - Housing services
85000000 - Health and social work services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £10,328,340 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- £10,328,340 £10M-£100M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 8 Oct 20252 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 7 Nov 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 4 Aug 2025Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 3 Feb 2026 - 31 Mar 2029 3-4 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Sonya Edwards
- Contact Email
- sedwards@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
- Not specified
-
- 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/063495-2025
8th October 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/030860-2025
9th June 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
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