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Published 5 Nov 2025, 11:35 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Enhancing Private Investment for Climate (EPIC)

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Administration, defence and social security services (75) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£83,333,333pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 6 yrs 3 moends 31 Dec 2032 · starts 1 Oct 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Tackling climate change and nature loss internationally is in our national interest. The UK has a long track record of delivering impact and value for money through our International Climate Finance.

Public finance can play a catalysing role in mobilising international private investment into emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) to meet the current and future needs on climate, nature and development. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) is considering options to directly engage international private financiers appraising investments in EMDEs, and options to provide bespoke financial instruments to efficiently mobilise significant volumes of private climate finance.

DESNZ will hold a preliminary market engagement session on Thursday 13 November 2025 between 12pm and 1.30pm to test the mandate and delivery routes and to enable due diligence on delivery options. The final scope and delivery model is yet to be chosen. Should a competitive procurement route be chosen, this would be subject to a separate notice.

This session will cover plans for geographic scope, sectoral scope, target transactions and investor types, portfolio expectations and planned timelines. The session will outline how DESNZ will promote financial innovation and financial sector deepening in target markets and will test assumptions and risks.

DESNZ welcomes participation from organisations with a track record of engaging private investors on EMDE-based project-level deals and Funds, private investors with knowledge blended finance transactions and investment barriers in EMDEs, and wider ecosystem players in this space.

CPV: Foreign economic-aid-related services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 6 yrs 3 moSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Oct 2026 – 31 Dec 2032 (6 yrs 3 mo)
Eligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
75211200 Foreign economic-aid-related services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Department for Energy Security & Net Zero buys Foreign affairs and other services (CPV 7521), and who usually turns up

Department for Energy Security & Net Zero’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: Foreign affairs and other services (CPV 7521) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerDepartment for Energy Security & Net Zero · division 75
The marketForeign affairs and other services (CPV 7521)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 5 known-size awards · market: CPV 7521 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=10
40%10%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 Greater London (authority’s region).

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: division 75 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=78
—56%

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7521 · UK-wide, n=5
—48 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 48 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 0 of 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7521 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=12
0%25%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer6 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 75
0% had one bid
The market14 lots with bid counts · CPV 7521 · UK-wide
7% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 7%
Buyer: 0 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 14 lots with published bid counts.
2–317% / 29%
Buyer: 1 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 14 lots with published bid counts.
4–633% / 29%
Buyer: 2 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 14 lots with published bid counts.
7+50% / 36%
Buyer: 3 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 14 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 75
80% below estimate
The market8 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7521 · UK-wide
75% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate80% / 75%
Buyer: 4 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%20% / 25%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 0%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 0 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 #1CPV 752175 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£83m
Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

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 49 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet27% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 49 similar lots
1 bid27%
13 of 49 similar past lots received 1 bid (27%).
2–335%
17 of 49 similar past lots received 2–3 (35%).
4–627%
13 of 49 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+12%
6 of 49 similar past lots received 7+ (12%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £83m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

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.

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
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
5 Nov 2025, 11:35 GMT
Last source update
9 Dec 2025, 10:17 GMT
Authority reference
prj_6146
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-080925
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Foreign economic-aid-related services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05dac8 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

5 Nov 2025 → 1 Oct 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published356 days ago
    5 Nov 2025, 11:35 GMT
  2. Market engagement348 days ago
    13 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT

    Early market engagement session to be held on Thursday 13 November 2025 followed by written feedback or through 1:1 virtual meetings. Feedback to be completed by Friday 28 November 2025.

    Event Link - teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3am… ↗

    Opportunity Listing - any supplementary information will be uploaded here - beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/esop/toolkit/opportu… ↗

  3. Latest notice published322 days ago
    9 Dec 2025, 10:17 GMT
  4. Contract starts27 days ago
    1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

6 events · 6 releases on Find a Tender · since 5 Nov 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    5 Nov 2025, 11:35 GMT
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    5 Nov 2025, 11:41 GMT
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    13 Nov 2025, 16:28 GMT
    UK2
  4. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    5 Dec 2025, 15:36 GMT
    UK2
  5. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    5 Dec 2025, 15:42 GMT
    UK2
  6. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    9 Dec 2025, 10:17 GMT
    UK2
Published amendments (4)

Update on 13/11/2025: Following the Preliminary Market Engagement Event, we have attached the presentation slides and a feedback questionnaire to the Opportunity Listing in Jaggaer which can be accessed here: https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/esop/guest/go/public/opportunity/current If you would prefer to provide feedback through a one-to-one session, please contact us by email at internationa…

Update on 05/12/2025 Further to our Post Market Engagement Event Supplier 1-2-1 Feedback Sessions, I can confirm that a summary of the key points raised during these discussions has been uploaded to the Jaggaer Opportunity Listings Page, https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/esop/guest/go/public/opportunity/current. You must be registered to Jaggaer in order to access the Opportunity Listings Page…

Update on 13/11/2025: Following the Preliminary Market Engagement Event, we have attached the presentation slides and a feedback questionnaire to the Opportunity Listing in Jaggaer which can be accessed here: https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/esop/guest/go/public/opportunity/current If you would prefer to provide feedback through a one-to-one session, please contact us by email at internationa…

Update: 09/12/2025: Further to our Post Market Engagement Event Supplier 1-2-1 Feedback Sessions, I can confirm that a summary of the key points raised during these discussions has been uploaded to the Jaggaer Opportunity Listings Page https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/esop/guest/go/public/opportunity/current Update on 13/11/2025: Following the Preliminary Market Engagement Event, we have atta…

Routine re-releases (6)
  • 2025-11: 3 releases · 5 Nov 2025, 13 Nov 2025

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

Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PDHQ-2163-WYMH 55 Whitehall, London, London, SW1A 2HPContact email

Official documents & specifications (6)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure