Official UK procurement notice
Electricity Supplier — UK public procurement notice
Authority: Lancaster City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council requires an integrated electricity arrangement incorporating:
1. supply of electricity to the Council’s corporate estate;
2. export of electricity generated from Council-owned renewable energy assets;
3. P442 matching between the Council’s import and generation portfolios;
4. optimisation of matching using additional eligible import and export volumes where Council generation and consumption do not coincide;
5. transparent identification and allocation of the resulting matching benefits; and
6. the capability to extend the arrangement to eligible domestic and commercial customers through a Community Power Club, with supply to those customers undertaken by a licensed electricity supplier.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award — no call for competition
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 29 Sept 2026, 14:48 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Sept 2026, 14:48 BST
- Latest notice
- Transparency notice (UK5)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
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- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
- Market Engagement undertaken by officers has not identified another supplier capable of delivering these requirements as a single integrated end to end arrangement. This satisfies the requirements of Schedule 5, paragraph 6 of the Procurement Act 2023, namely that due to an absence of competition for technical reasons only a particular supplier can supply the services required and that there are no reasonable alternatives.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics — not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Octopus Energy Limited1 Apr 2027 — 31 Mar 2029 | £4,080,000 inc. VAT | — | Standstill |
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 29 Sept 2026- Contract signature expected2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMTscheduled
- Transparency notice published29 Sept 2026, 14:48 BSTUK5
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Octopus Energy LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender