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GMCA 2027 Stock Condition Survey

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

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29 Sep 2026 at 13:46

UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Summary of the contracting process

Greater Manchester Combined Authority is planning a one-off commission to model housing stock condition across Greater Manchester, covering the ten local authorities. The work is expected to use a desktop survey to estimate conditions by home type, age and tenure, including hazards, state of repair, modernity of facilities, thermal comfort, fuel poverty and overcrowding. It would also assess retrofit opportunities and compare local conditions with national housing survey trends. A second possible element is a visualisation tool, including a way to inspect and update social housing data. Outputs should be shareable with the authorities and the University of Manchester, for example as CSV files. The analysis is intended to inform housing and retrofit strategies, statutory housing duties, health and housing modelling, and decisions about retrofit investment. Delivery is across Greater Manchester.

This is at the planning stage: the authority is seeking potential suppliers’ feedback before issuing an invitation to tender. It expects the work to be a one-off commission, with delivery planned from 30 December 2026 to 30 May 2027. Suppliers are being asked to give views on delivering the stock condition model, the visualisation tool, or both. The buyer expects to seek separate prices for the two elements and may commission either element alone or both together. The model and visualisation are therefore not yet settled as a single package. Feedback is expected through the Chest e-tendering portal by 23 October 2026. No procurement procedure or award evaluation basis is set out at this planning stage.

The planned work is likely to suit housing research, property data and analytics consultancies with experience modelling residential stock at local or regional scale. Relevant capability includes estimating housing condition and hazards, energy performance or thermal comfort, fuel poverty, overcrowding and retrofit potential, and translating findings into usable evidence for public-sector housing and climate strategies. Suppliers should be able to work with stock data at a detailed geographic level, potentially down to individual addresses, and produce clear, shareable datasets for analysis and visualisation. Experience building dashboards or tools that let users explore results and update social housing information would be relevant to the optional visualisation element. The authority is seeking supplier insight on whether these elements can be delivered separately or together, and on how the data can be integrated into health and housing modelling.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

GMCA 2027 Stock Condition Survey

Notice Description

GMCA are inviting feedback from potential suppliers in relation to the delivery of a stock condition model for Greater Manchester. It is expected that the model/survey would be a desktop survey which would provide modelled outputs. The survey outputs would allow the GMCA and the 10 Greater Manchester local authorities to compare the data produced with historic stock condition data, based on type and level of hazards within the Housing Health and Safety Rating system. It would support Housing Strategies, Climate Action Plans, and Fuel Poverty actions, as well as assist the local authorities to comply with their duties under the Regulatory Reform Order 2002 and the integration of Public Health responsibilities into the Local Authority. The objectives of the potential model/survey are to understand the following: A. The overall stock condition of homes across Greater Manchester by house type, age and tenure of the home. B. Levels of minimum acceptable conditions as set out in the Housing Health and Safety Rating System. C. Estimation of the state of repair, modernity of internal living facilities and thermal comfort as set out in the Decent Homes Standard, however consideration should be paid to the status of the proposed standard. D. Levels of fuel poverty in line with the Government's current Fuel Poverty Strategy and emerging policy. E. How the stock condition across the 10 Greater Manchester local authorities compares with the Survey of English Housing Survey trends to establish to what extent conditions in Greater Manchester follows the national trend over the same period. F. Estimates of retrofit opportunities utilising the Net Zero Housing Retrofit Framework Agreement. G. Understanding levels of overcrowding. The outputs of the model/survey will be used for the following purposes: 1. As a key input into the Greater Manchester Health and Housing model. The data from the stock condition model will be combined with health data in a secure environment. The GMCA/NHSGM and the provider building the health and housing model will work closely with the successful provider to identify how best to integrate the data and note any caveats concerning the data. 2. Support the GMCA to identify locations which would benefit from retrofit interventions to support the 2038 carbon neutrality ambitions of the city region. Greater Manchester as part of the Integrated Settlement has a devolved retrofit budget which is key to meeting these ambitions. 3. Support the development of housing and retrofit strategy and delivery across the ten Greater Manchester local authorities. 4. Visualisation of the outputs on dashboards or similar to allow access to the outputs for decision makers and members of the public. What can and cannot be shared and the format can be negotiated. 5. Support the ten Greater Manchester local authorities to meet their statutory housing duties in regard to understanding the condition of housing stock in their area. This commission potentially contains 2 x elements which views are sought on: - A stock condition model/survey for the whole of Greater Manchester with breakdown of condition as low as possible - ideally address level. - Visualisation tool for the model and an ability for the social housing element to be interrogated and updated. The outputs for the model would need to be in a sharable format which the GMCA and partners can use for visualisation and modelling e.g. a CSV output. The output would be shared with the 10 x local authorities and the University of Manchester. The contract would be for a one off piece of work delivering the model and any associated visualisations. Two costs will be sought for the two parts of the commission and the GMCA reserves the right to commission either both parts of only one part. We are interested in thoughts on the ability to deliver either or both parts.

Planning Information

If interested, all responses should be submitted via the Chest e-tendering portal: https://procontract.due-north.com/Opportunities/Index?resetFilter=True&applyFilter=True&p=e0cc5631-4690-e511-80fb-000c29c9ba21&v=1

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-077c84
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/091894-2026
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
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Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Procurement Type
Framework
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

CPV Codes

73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
29 Sep 20261 weeks ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
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Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
30 Dec 2026 - 30 May 2027 1-6 months
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planning
Lots Status
Planning
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Contact Name
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
MANCHESTER
Postcode
M1 6EU
Postcode Area
Manchester
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLD North West (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLD3 Greater Manchester
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLD33 Manchester
Delivery Location
TLD North West (England)
Local Authority
Manchester
Electoral Ward
Deansgate
Westminster Constituency
Manchester Central

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