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# Customer Support Fund

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/customer-support-fund-ocds-h6vhtk-03b212). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS LIMITED: "Customer Support Fund". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/northern-gas-networks-limited-coh-05167070)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Services related to the oil and gas industry
- **Delivery Location:** UKE4
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **Awarded Value:** £110,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03b212`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/customer-support-fund-ocds-h6vhtk-03b212#tl-md)

## Description
Through experience in RIIO-1 and more recently as a result of the energy and cost of living crises, NGN acknowledge that we serve many customers, who are in desperate need of financial support. Many have been unable to access funding as a result of falling through gaps in funding streams. For these customers, we set up a support / hardship fund, in partnership with existing similar funds. Access to this fund has a strict set of criteria, to ensure that we are not duplicating any other available funding streams. The fund is facilitated by NGN however, delivered by experts in their field. This element of the fund is to provide assisted gas connections and / or first time central heating and is facilitated by our fuel poor partner (CE) and contractors who can provide internal measures

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** Not published

- **Delivery regions:** UKE

- **Description:** Through experience in RIIO-1 and more recently as a result of the energy and cost of living crises, NGN acknowledge that we serve many customers, who are in desperate need of financial support. Many have been unable to access funding as a result of f...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 007152-2023-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **COMMUNITAS ENERGY CIC**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-100176`
  - Value: £110,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 007152-2023-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £110,000
  - Signed Date: 10/03/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F007152-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-03-10T20:10:27.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T16:55:59.028Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03b212