Official UK procurement notice
Energy Management Solutions Dynamic Market
Authority: The Bolton Impact Trust (Public body)·On behalf of: Dukefield Energy Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe University of Essex is looking to establish a Dynamic Market under the Procurement Act 2023 for the provision of utility supplies, net zero, energy management and infrastructure solutions across the United Kingdom. The Dynamic Market will provide eligible contracting authorities and their agents, and any other organisation permitted by the Contracting Authority (hereafter known as Participating Bodies) with a flexible and compliant route to procure such supplies, services and works.
The Contracting Authority is conducting a pre-market engagement exercise to consider the scope, structure and specification of the dynamic market, including but not limited to the following categories:
- Electricity and Gas Supply, Procurement and Contract Management, including licensed supply, procurement support, contract management and import and export arrangements.
- Utility Infrastructure and Connections, including electricity, gas, water and multi-utility connections, ICP and IDNO services, DNO liaison, project management and technical advice.
- Metering and Data Services, including MOP, DC, DA, AMR and smart metering, meter asset management, data platforms, portfolio data services and metering consultancy.
- Energy Compliance, Auditing and Assurance, including ESOS, TM44 and SECR support, energy auditing, bill validation, compliance services and technical assurance.
- Net Zero, Carbon Management and ESG Consultancy, including decarbonisation strategies, carbon accounting, emissions reporting, ESG support, funding advice and delivery planning.
- Renewable and Low Carbon Technologies, including the design, funding, installation, operation and maintenance of solar PV, battery storage, heat pumps and associated technologies.
- Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, including feasibility and fleet advice, ChargePoint supply and installation, ChargePoint operation, maintenance and back-office platforms.
- Flexibility, Storage and Demand Side Response, including aggregation, battery optimisation, demand-side response, flexibility market participation, asset management and supporting software.
- Water and Wastewater Supply, including licensed water and sewerage retail services for eligible non-household customers.
- Water and Wastewater Services, including auditing, leak detection, metering, efficiency services, surveys, wastewater advice and associated technical support.
- Heat Networks, District Energy and Thermal Infrastructure Services, including feasibility, design, funding, delivery, operation, billing, maintenance and technical advisory services.
- Smart Buildings, Energy Optimisation and Specialist Technical Advisory Services, including building energy management systems, controls, monitoring and analytics, commissioning, optimisation and specialist consultancy.
Suppliers are invited to review and respond to the Pre-Market Engagement Questionnaire detailing their input into the process. The Pre-Market Engagement Questionnaire is available via the Delta e-sourcing system on the link below:
www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/6MH8PRFSFZ ↗
Once established the Dynamic Market will remain open to applications throughout its term. Admission does not guarantee the award of any contract. Participating Bodies will define their individual requirements, specifications, evaluation criteria, commercial arrangements and contract terms through subsequent competitive procurements conducted under the Dynamic Market.
The University of Essex has engaged Dukefield Energy Limited to undertake the Dynamic Market Pre-Market Engagement exercise on its behalf and thereafter the dynamic market establishment process and provide ongoing management of the Dynamic Market throughout its term.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at:
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CPV: Automation system · Batteries · Battery packs · Chargers · Construction work for electricity power lines · Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines · Consulting services for water-supply and waste-water other than for construction · Data analysis services · District heating · District-heating mains construction work · Electric vehicles · Electrical engineering installation works · +31 more
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
- Market period
- 10 yrs from 15 Oct 2026
The lotProcurement structure
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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).
- “Energy Management Solutions Dynamic Market” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
Competition for Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up
The Bolton Impact Trust has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. No delivery region is published, so no market column stands beside whatever it has. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
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Lot #1CPV 7131Published estimate£1.2bn
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1 bid3%
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 14 Aug 2026, 11:22 BST
- Last source update
- 14 Aug 2026, 11:22 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-077597- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e470Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Admission period ends
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Timeline
14 Aug 2026 → 15 Oct 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published69 days ago14 Aug 2026, 11:22 BST
- Market engagement49 days ago3 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Please read the description of requirements for this Dynamic Market, then download the Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire, complete and return the completed questionnaire via the Delta platform by 3rd September 2026.
- Tender notice expected37 days ago15 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts8 days ago15 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published14 Aug 2026, 11:22 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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- Dukefield Energy LimitedProcuring entityManaging Agent on behalf of University of Essex
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