--- title: "2nd Market Test for Future Private Lettings Opportunity" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-f832a31d-8565-4065-b641-5a70ba613f85" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-f832a31d-8565-4065-b641-5a70ba613f85" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-f832a31d-8565-4065-b641-5a70ba613f85.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-f832a31d-8565-4065-b641-5a70ba613f85.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "CORNWALL COUNCIL" published: "2024-01-15" --- # 2nd Market Test for Future Private Lettings Opportunity Buyer: CORNWALL COUNCIL Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-f832a31d-8565-4065-b641-5a70ba613f85 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-f832a31d-8565-4065-b641-5a70ba613f85) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-f832a31d-8565-4065-b641-5a70ba613f85.json) ## Summary The Cornwall Council is currently planning a 2nd Market Test for Future Private Lettings Opportunity in the real estate services industry. The engagement end date for this tender is set for 15th April 2024. The Council aims to understand interest across various sectors for providing private lets services and is seeking providers for settled accommodation services. The total contract value is £250,000 GBP. This tender presents an opportunity for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, charity, social lettings, and independent sectors to compete for providing private lets services in Cornwall. The Council is looking for providers who can match tenants to landlords, administer rent collection, coordinate maintenance, inspections, and provide support for tenants. Businesses suited for this opportunity are those with experience in real estate services and a focus on tenant-landlord relationship management. ## Notice Cornwall Council is seeking an understanding of interest across the Voluntary, charity, social lettings, Independent and private sectors for the provision of a private lets service. This service is currently run in house, and provides settled accommodation through Assured Short-hold tenancy negotiated between tenants and private landlords. The tenants for these services would be those in temporary accommodation, owed a prevention, relief duty, rough sleepers and former rough sleepers, as well as those who are threatened with homelessness under notice. The landlords are private individuals who choose to use the service in lieu of a high street agency. For clarity, the requirement does not involve the provision of purpose built or managed facilities - on one level it is simply an agency service, matching tenants to landlords, administering rent collection and distribution but it also provides additional value over and above a normal high street agent by providing additional coordination of maintenance, inspections, and support for tenants, and managing relationships between tenants and landlords in the interests of both parties. In this particular example the Council is not looking for providers who want to build to rent, and is not looking to procure serviced accommodation (it does and will continue to do that through other routes to market). Having conducted an initial soft market test, published on 23.11.23 (Appendix 1 in Soft Market Test documents), the Council is re-engaging the market to provide further information on the potential opportunity and request additional feedback. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a6efa855-a790-4ff7-bd8e-374aa7ff7bee | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 15 Jan 2024 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 15 Apr 2024 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £250,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | CORNWALL COUNCIL | | Locality | TRURO | | Post town | Truro | | Postcode | TR1 3AY | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) | | ITL 2 | TLK3 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | | ITL 3 | TLK30 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | | Local authority | Cornwall | | Electoral ward | Truro Boscawen & Redannick | | Westminster constituency | Truro and Falmouth | | Delivery location | TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLH East (England), TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England) | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 70 - Real estate services ### Codes - 70000000 - Real estate services ## Release History - 15 Jan 2024 at 13:17 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a6efa855-a790-4ff7-bd8e-374aa7ff7bee ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a6efa855-a790-4ff7-bd8e-374aa7ff7bee 15th January 2024 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=c4cc9e07-a7b3-ee11-8127-005056b64545 Advert ## Notice URLs - http://www.cornwall.gov.uk ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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