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Liverpool City Council

Social Housing Allocation System_26

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48000000
Value£1.8m
Deadline6 Oct 2026
Published11 Sept 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 11 Sept 202625 days leftCloses 6 Oct 2026
Who to contact
commercialprocurement@liverpool.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£1.8mtotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.9m

This is a large award for Software & IT Systems — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Liverpool City Council is seeking a supplier to provide a Social Housing Allocation System to the Council, Halton Borough Council, Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council and Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council.

The proposed contract will consist of an implementation phase, followed by five years commencing November 2027, with options to extend by a further four years.

Further information can be obtained from: https://procontract.due-north.com from 15:00 on 11 September 2026.

The response submission deadline is 16:00 on 6 October 2026.

Please download the full document suite from Procontract.

Your company will need to register on Procontract (Due North) to be able to receive the opportunity.

The documents will only be available on Procontract.

Once you have registered you will need to go to the "my opportunities" section on the home page of Procontract and follow the instructions as a supplier to enable you to return your submission.

To register your organisation on Procontract click on the following link https://procontract.due-north.com/register, go to suppliers' area and click on "register free".

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Your company will need to register on

Your company will need to register on Procontract (Due North) to be able to receive the opportunity.

02

Once you have registered you will need

Once you have registered you will need to go to the "my opportunities" section on the home page of Procontract and follow the instructions as a supplier to enable you to return your submission.

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What it takes to bid this

2540 daysof bid-team effort
£17.1k£27.4kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £1m–£10m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidCyber Essentials Plus (often mandatory for gov IT)
  • Hold at bidISO 27001 (information security)
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
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Source
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