Open Framework for Temporary Accommodation Nightly Let Services

Milton Keynes City Council are currently out to tender for the Open Framework for Temporary Accommodation Nightly Let Services. This arrangement will be structured as three successive and overlapping framework periods, enabling the Council to periodically re-open the framework.

This approach will:

• Support continued market engagement
• Promote ongoing competition and value for money
• Enable supplier refresh opportunities and market entry
• Ensure compliance with the Open Framework provisions of the Procurement Act 2023
• Provide flexibility to adapt to changing service requirements and market conditions

All Local Authorities have a statutory duty under the Housing Act 1996 Part VII, (as amended by the Homelessness Act 2002) where appropriate, to provide interim emergency temporary accommodation for homeless applicants pending investigations into their application. Local Authorities also have additional statutory powers to provide help and assistance to other categories of people. Often this requires Local Authorities to provide accommodation to some of the most vulnerable members of the community, including for example people with mental health issues, physical disabilities and learning disabilities. This framework is for the procurement of nightly let accommodation to the Council. The Council sees an average of 170 homeless approaches each month and places an average of 80 new placements into Temporary Accommodation each month, and has resulted in The Council with 962 households accommodated in Temporary Accommodation at the end of May 2026. This will be the first/initial framework of the Open Framework. The Authority intends to re-open the framework in order to establish successor frameworks:

• once within Year 3 of Framework 1, and
• once within Year 6 of Framework 2,

Each re-opening creates a new framework, and does not constitute an extension of an existing framework:

• Framework 1 expires automatically when Framework 2 is awarded
• Framework 2 expires when Framework 3 is awarded

The Council reserves the right to re-open the Framework at additional points prior to, after, or in addition to the scheduled re-openings stated above, where it considers it necessary to do so. Deadline for submissions of the tender will be 12 noon on the 4th December 2026.