Official UK procurement notice
DFE - Energy Group - Site inspections for the closure of the Non-Domestic RHI Scheme
Authority: Department for the Economy (DfE) - Energy Group (Central government)·On behalf of: CPD
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe DFE Energy Group seeks to appoint a specialist supplier to undertake a programme of compliance inspections across all closure accredited NI Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) installations. The supplier will conduct site inspections, assess compliance with RHI closure regulations, collect evidence and produce inspection reports. Suppliers should refer to the Specification Schedule for full detail on the deliverables of this contract.
CPV: Energy and related services · Energy-efficiency consultancy services · Energy-management services · Heating equipment · Investigation services · Technical testing, analysis and consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£750,000
- Value
- £750,000 exc. VAT · £900,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- 8 x 1-year optional extension periods.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (5)
- AC1 - Key Delivery Personnel Experience — 18%
- AC2 - Management of Services — 6%
- AC3 - Contract Management — 6%
- AC5 - Total Contract Cost — 60%
- AC4 - Social Value — 10%
Published award criteria (5)
- AC1 - Key Delivery Personnel Experience — As per Tender Documentation.
- AC2 - Management of Services — As per Tender Documentation.
- AC3 - Contract Management — As per Tender Documentation.
- AC4 - Social Value — As per Tender Documentation.
- AC5 - Total Contract Cost — As per Tender Documentation.
- Technical & professional abilityAs per Tender documents
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Department for the Economy (DfE) - Energy Group buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) — and who usually turns up
Department for the Economy (DfE) - Energy Group’s own published record, next to the Northern Ireland market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Department for the Economy (DfE) - Energy Group
contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 7131 · 1 in division 71 · 12 in all categories (2 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 7 lots. All 7 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices, which count bids assessed.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 7 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 5 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 7 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 12 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 10 notices.
Northern Ireland · Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131)
contract notices delivered in Northern Ireland in 36 months: 130 in CPV 7131 (122 competed, 7 route not published) · 298 in division 71 (271 competed, 23 route not published) · the notice publishes no delivery location, so the authority’s registered region is used
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7131), last 36 months: 110 lots. 39 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 71 from older notices (bids received, middle 5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7131), last 36 months: 110 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7131), last 36 months: 83 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7131), last 36 months: 25 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7131), last 36 months: 104 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7131), last 36 months: 54 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on this buyer’s own usual movement over 5 lots (all categories), applied to the £750,000 estimate on this notice.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Oct 2026, 15:42 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 15:42 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 16 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
ID 6586886- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078007Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via eTendersNI- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 2 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 20 Oct 2026, 15:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
5 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedjust passed2 Oct 2026, 15:42 BST
- Clarification questions byin 18 days20 Oct 2026, 15:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 31 days2 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 45 days16 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 59 days1 Dec 2026, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published2 Oct 2026, 15:42 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
3 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- CPDBeneficiary authority
- CPD - Supplies and Service DivisionProcess contact pointProcuring entityConstruction and Procurement Delivery - Supplies and Services Division, is a Centre of Procurement Expertise and provides a central procurement function for central government in Northern Ireland.
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender