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title: "AT1576 - Selective and Additional Licensing Schemes"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0788b1"
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# AT1576 - Selective and Additional Licensing Schemes

Buyer: Luton Council  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0788b1

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## Summary

Luton Borough Council is procuring an integrated property-licensing service for its Selective and Additional Licensing schemes. The service must manage licensing applications and processes, maintain ongoing data validation, carry out property inspections and securely share information with Council systems. This combines specialist software and support with operational delivery, rather than being a software-only requirement. The work is for the Council’s licensing and regulatory functions in Luton. The service is intended to support the Council’s live launch requirements and statutory enforcement activity, with ready-to-use workflows across the licensing service. The procurement is classified as IT services, including software development, consulting and support.

The procurement is complete and the Council selected Home Safe Delivery Partnership Ltd through a direct award. The award is recorded as pending. The award date was 15 October 2026; the planned contract period runs from 2 November 2026 to 30 October 2028, with an option to extend by four months, to 1 March 2029. The awarded value is £3.5 million excluding VAT (£4.2 million including VAT). There is one lot. The Council’s stated basis for the direct award was that only this supplier could provide an immediately ready platform with pre-configured workflows, enabling a risk-free transition within the required implementation timetable. The Council considered that alternatives would require discovery, workflow mapping or configuration, creating transition risks and potential delay to statutory work.

For suppliers competing for a comparable future requirement from Luton Borough Council, credibility would depend on delivering a complete property-licensing service, not simply supplying a software product. The selected supplier’s reported advantage was an immediately deployable platform with workflows already configured for the Council’s licensing requirements. Strong competitors would therefore need demonstrable capability in selective and additional property licensing, application and case-process management, continuing data validation, property inspections and secure integration with Council systems. They would also need to show that implementation can be completed without a prolonged discovery, configuration or data-migration phase, and that the service can support live operations and statutory enforcement without disruption. Experience delivering integrated platforms for public-sector licensing teams, alongside reliable data handling and operational capacity, would be commercially relevant to this buyer’s requirement. The procurement’s direct-award rationale makes readiness and low-transition risk particularly important differentiators.

## Notice

The Council requires a fully integrated service that can manage Selective and Additional Licensing, maintain ongoing data validation, carry out property inspections, and securely share data with Council systems.

### Procurement Information

The Contracting Authority conducted Preliminary Market Engagement to identify market capability for an end-to-end Property Licensing Service. While two market participants demonstrated capability utilizing specialized property licensing platforms (including Metastreet), objective evaluation confirmed a technical absence of competition under Schedule 5, Paragraph 4 of the Procurement Act 2023 regarding immediate, risk-free transition. One respondent's proposal requires an initial phase of discovery, workflow mapping, and system configuration to align separate licensing streams. The Authority has a critical, immediate statutory timeline that cannot accommodate a phased implementation or data-migration loop without severe operational disruption to regulatory enforcement. Home Safe Delivery Partnership Ltd is the exclusive supplier demonstrating immediate, unconditional platform readiness with fully pre-configured workflows tailored to the Authority's live launch requirements. No reasonable alternative or substitute exists that meets the necessary immediate implementation timeline without introducing disproportionate transition costs and statutory delay.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/097579-2026 |
| Notice type | UK6 - Contract Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Direct |
| Procurement method details | Direct award |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 15 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 15 Oct 2026 |
| Contract period | 2 Nov 2026 - 30 Oct 2028 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £3,500,000 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Pending |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Luton Council |
| Locality | LUTON |
| Postcode area | Luton |
| Postcode | LU1 2BQ |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLH East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLH2 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire |
| ITL 3 | TLH21 Luton |
| Local authority | Luton |
| Electoral ward | Central |
| Westminster constituency | Luton South and South Bedfordshire |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | HOME SAFE DELIVERY PARTNERS LTD |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

## Release History

- 15 Oct 2026 at 15:26 - Award - UK6 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/097579-2026
- 15 Oct 2026 at 15:00 - Award - UK5 - Transparency Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/097558-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/097579-2026
  15th October 2026 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/097558-2026
  15th October 2026 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- http://www.home-safe.org.uk
- http://www.luton.gov.uk
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

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