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Flexible Benefits Platform (including Brokering Service) and Employee Reward & Recognition Platform

Business transaction and personal business software package
Miscellaneous business and business-related services
Miscellaneous services
UK
Published value
£13,180,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: NATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED: "Flexible Benefits Platform (including Brokering Service) and Employee Reward & Recognition Platform". Published status: planned. Published value: £13,180,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityNATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITEDScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planned
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£13,180,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: NATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for NATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
1Bids / Report
100% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
Unicorn Grid Systems a.s.Top vendor: 100% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 15 active published awards; 2 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Unicorn Grid Systems a.s.1 win£1,318,515
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityNATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanned
Framework / DPSFramework
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published20 Jan 2026, 10:15 GMT
Last source update20 Jan 2026, 10:15 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationBusiness transaction and personal business software package, Miscellaneous business and business-related services, Miscellaneous services
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06023a
What is being bought
The National Energy System Operator (NESO) is an independent, public corporation at the centre of the energy system with a view to create access to reliable, clean and affordable energy in the UK. Following its transition into public ownership, NESO is seeking to appoint a provider(s) to provide for the People function a reward and benefit software as a service platform solution for their 2,800 primarily UK based employees. Lot 1 Flexible Benefits Platform and brokering service (Estimated spend £7681779 of which 52% is pass through spend to benefit providers) Lot 2 Employee Reward & Recognition Platform (Estimated spend £5498319) NESO is exploring competitive options via public sector frameworks and is therefore starting the process as a PA23 engagement to get market insight. We are releasing the Pre Market Engagement questionnaire which will help us validate the strategy at Gate 0 and to understand what the market is able to offer.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    20 Jan 2026, 10:15 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    8 Jan 2026, 18:20 GMT
  3. Published value updated to £13,180,000
    8 Jan 2026, 16:41 GMT
  4. Status changed to planned
    8 Jan 2026, 16:41 GMT
  5. Official notice release published
    8 Jan 2026, 16:41 GMT
  6. Buyer information updated
    8 Jan 2026, 16:41 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planned
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    20 Jan 2026, 10:15 GMT
  2. Procedure published
    20 Jan 2026, 10:15 GMT
  3. engagement
    23 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT · scheduled
    NESO would like interested organisations to complete the following form: https://forms.office.com/e/T2MadKHZGP which NESO will then collate in order to develop their understanding of the market and complete their assurance process. Further communication in the form of notices will then be published via Find a Tender Service (FTS).
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

NATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED

Contracting authority GB-COH-11014226
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  • NATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED
    buyer

    GB-COH: 11014226 · GB-PPON: PHQL-5234-MWWV
    St Catherine's Lodge Bearwood Road, Wokingham, UKJ11, RG41 5BN, GB
    nesoprocurement@neso.energy
Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
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No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published