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Bedford Borough Council

Open Framework for Emergency Accommodation and Nightly-Let Housing Provision

Community ServicesCPV 98341000
Value£50.0m
Deadline29 Jul 2026
Published24 Jun 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 24 Jun 20265 days leftCloses 29 Jul 2026
Who to contact
Commercial.Hub@bedford.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
£50.0mtotal contract value
median £134k
this tender£0£54.0m

This is a large award for Other Community & Personal Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 5,835 valued Other Community & Personal Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

This Procurement is for an Open Framework as described in Section 49 of the Procurement Act 2023, containing various lots for the provision of Emergency Accommodation and Nightly-Let Housing.

It is being run under the open procedure in accordance with the requirements of Sections 19 and 20 of the Procurement Act 2023, which is a formal bidding procedure under which the Open Framework is advertised and all interested organisations or consortia may bid.

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the £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

  • 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
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bc58
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
059500-2026
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