Closed tender

Preliminary Market Engagement - Housing Needs Assessments for the Manchester Supported Housing Strategy

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Published
11 August 2026
Submission
25 August 2026

Tender description

Manchester City Council are seeking expressions of interest and information from providers for consultancy support to undertake the Housing Needs Assessments required for the new Manchester Supported Housing Strategy. Interested providers must be confident in their ability to deliver an assessment of existing supported housing provision within Manchester, Housing Needs Assessments (HNAs) for all cohorts specified in the Supported Housing Regulatory Oversight Statutory Local Supported Housing Strategy Guidance, future demand forecasting and gap analysis as outlined in the Brief/Scope of Services found in the preliminary market engagement document. If you would like to confirm your interest in this opportunity, you must complete and return this document provided, via the Chest, as part of your expression of interest submission. THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION We encourage your participation in this request for information exercise but must emphasise that your involvement in this exercise will not carry any commercial advantage in any ensuing procurement process. Responses will be reviewed solely for the purpose of informing the Council's understanding of the market, available solutions, indicative models, and potential future procurement approaches. Responses will not be scored, evaluated, ranked or used to determine supplier eligibility in any future procurement exercise. Future contract dates unknown at this stage. Keywords: Needs, Assessments, Specialist, Housing, Consultancy

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published11 August 2026
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date25 August 2026

About the buyer

Manchester City Council is the local authority for the city of Manchester, and buys through its Corporate Procurement Service. Category leads across the council handle procurement for their own areas of goods and services. Contract opportunities are advertised on The Chest, the North West's shared procurement portal for local authorities. Larger contracts also appear on Find a Tender, the UK's service for public procurement notices. A Professional Services Framework covers consultancy and professional services work for the council. Suppliers can register for free email alerts on The Chest when relevant opportunities are published.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Manchester City Council's contract awards have been in health and social work, construction work and transport equipment.

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