Official UK procurement notice
City of London Heat Network Delivery in the Square Mile
Authority: The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionA Soft Market testing exercise was conducted in September 2024 (under PCR 2015) in consideration as too whether to commence a formal open tender process, at the time the City Corporation (CoLC) wished to establish the level of market interest in a zonal scale heat network development within the Square Mile and potential partnerships to deliver wider energy system decarbonisation measures to address the priority areas identified in within the documents provided.
The following organisations were directly invited by the CoLC to complete the PME / SMT activity in September 2024 are listed below, those particpating suppliers will also be asked to participate in this PME / SMT (April 2025) exercise.
- 1Energy
- E.ON
- EQUANS
- Hemiko (Pinnacle Power)
- Noventa
- SSE
- Vattenfall
- Veolia
- Vital Energi
Prior to considering whether to commence a formal tender process, the CoLC wishes to establish the level of market interest in a zonal scale Heat Network development within the Square Mile and potential partnerships to deliver wider energy system decarbonisation measures to address the priority areas identified in the CAS and LAEP.
This activity does not, however, commit the CoLC to running a tender process in the future.
CPV: Public utilities · Services related to the oil and gas industry
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 2 Apr 2025, 12:12 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Apr 2025, 12:12 BST
- Authority reference
prj_118- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-012480- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04fbddFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 Apr 2025 → 1 Oct 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published2 Apr 2025, 12:12 BST
- Market engagement16 May 2025, 23:59 BST
Engagement will consist of a SMT Questionnaire that participating suppliers will be required to submit their responses via the following tender portal (cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com ↗).
Participating suppliers will have the opportunity to visit two City of London sites to further understand the project. Participating suppliers that wish to attend the City of London site visits will be requirred to sign a Mutual NDA in respect to the site visits including the building plans that will be provided during the vist, as well as further information.
- Tender notice expected392 days ago1 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts28 days ago1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Apr 2025, 12:12 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender