Official UK procurement notice
Energy Loans and Grants Administration
Authority: Scottish Government (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Scottish Government is seeking a service provider to undertake the financial administration and management of a number of its heat and energy efficiency loans and grants schemes
CPV: Collection agency services · Energy-efficiency consultancy services · Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services · Loan brokerage services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Scottish Government is seeking a service provider to undertake the financial…Planned
The Scottish Government is seeking a service provider to undertake the financial administration and management of a number of its heat and energy efficiency loan and grant schemes from April 2028.
The service provider will assume the management and administration a portfolio of grant and loan schemes which currently includes 4 schemes open to new applications and a number of closed schemes with an outstanding loan book to be repaid the service provider will have to deliver the following across those individual schemes:
- Application processing and decision making, in line with terms and conditions set
- Administration of loan and grant payments
- Debt recovery
- Records management
- Liaison with advice partners to maintain an effective and efficient customer journey Additional information: At the time of publication of the PIN the contract will be for 48 months with 2 x 12 months optional extensions to be invoked at Scottish Ministers discretion. However, this may be subject to change at the time of issuing the contract notice.
This is a demand led service and the value is calculated on maximum potential volumes of grant and loans through put, but not guaranteed.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Scottish Government buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up
Scottish Government’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 48 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid33% / 5%
2–333% / 27%
4–633% / 42%
7+0% / 25%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate49% / 60%
Within ±2%39% / 30%
Above estimate12% / 10%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1The Scottish Government is seeking a service provider to undertake the financial…CPV 7131Published estimate£66m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 55 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid5%
2–327%
4–642%
7+25%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Energy Saving TrustLive contract | Financial administration and management of Scottish Government heat and energy efficiency grant and loan schemesruns to Nov 2026 | — | £62m | Matched as the earlier contract |
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 23 Jul 2026, 15:16 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Jul 2026, 15:16 BST
- Authority reference
836610- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-069843- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d23dFind a Tender
Publisher note: Any organisation intending to bid for this opportunity must be registered with the Financial Conduct Authority at the time of contract award. Please note this Prior Information Notice supersedes the notice published on 20/10/2022. The notice was allocated the reference number 20221020-000023 A Request for Information is attached to this Prior Information Notice please navigate to the Additional Documents area to access the Request for Information. The request contains a link to MS Forms this link will allow you to respond to the questionnaire. The Link is also provided here HEAT IN BUILDINGS DELIVERY - GRANT AND LOAN ADMINISTRATION CASE/836610 – Fill in form copy and paste text into your browser NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Default.aspx NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=835266. (SC Ref:835266)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
23 Jul 2026 → 18 Jan 2027 · 2 dates- Notice published94 days ago23 Jul 2026, 15:16 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 85 days18 Jan 2027
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