Housing Services Tenders and Contracts

Housing services tenders cover the day to day management of social and council housing, including tenancy management, rent and arrears administration, housing repairs coordination and housing management IT systems, along with housing support services for people at risk of homelessness.

Stotles brings together housing services tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Scottish councils publish housing support and temporary accommodation contracts on Public Contracts Scotland, and many English councils commission housing support through their own dynamic purchasing systems.

Housing services tenders are scored on quality as well as price, so bids show outcomes for tenants and clients, safeguarding, staffing and local partnerships. Support contracts are often split into lots by client group, so providers can bid for the groups they already support.

Providers delivering regulated care alongside housing support must be registered with the relevant care regulator, such as the Care Quality Commission in England or the Care Inspectorate in Scotland, and staff working with vulnerable adults need appropriate DBS checks. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar services at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Housing support services are usually let as open tenders for multi-year contracts, often divided into lots by client group such as young people, adults or people affected by domestic abuse. Housing management agent contracts are tendered by councils building up their own council housing stock. Winning suppliers are frequently housing associations and charities.

Local councils and housing associations are regular buyers, procuring through their housing or landlord services teams. Arms-length management organisations that run council housing on a council's behalf also buy these services.

Read council housing strategies, homelessness and rough sleeping strategies, housing support grant spending plans and cabinet papers that announce recommissioning of support services. Prior information and early engagement notices often precede a formal tender. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Housing services notices carry 98000000 (Other community, social and personal services), 85000000 (Health and social work services) and 70000000 (Real estate services). Housing support and outreach contracts sit under the community and social work codes, while housing management agent work is classified under real estate services.