Official UK procurement notice
HEAT METER & BILLING · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Fife Council (Local council)
Fife Council is looking to conduct market engagement while considering establishing a Heat Meter & Billing Framework. Fife Council previously established a framework for heat-metering and billing services which was available for use by other local authorities.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionFife Council is looking to conduct market engagement while considering establishing a Heat Meter & Billing Framework
CPV: Billing system · Call centre · Energy meters · Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services · Heating engineering services for buildings · Invoicing services · Meter reading service · Meters · Repair and maintenance services of measuring apparatus
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Fife Council previously established a framework for heat-metering and billing services…Planned
Fife Council previously established a framework for heat-metering and billing services which was available for use by other local authorities. The Council is considering whether there is sufficient supplier interest and wider public-sector demand to justify establishing a new Scottish framework reflecting current market capability, technology, regulatory requirements and participating-body needs. The purpose of this initial engagement is to understand whether a viable market exists.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Fife Council buys Meter reading service (CPV 6550), and who usually turns up
Fife Council’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: Meter reading service (CPV 6550) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 80 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid10% / 0%
2–345% / 20%
4–630% / 60%
7+15% / 20%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate33% / 24%
Within ±2%33% / 52%
Above estimate33% / 24%
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1Fife Council previously established a framework for heat-metering and billing services…CPV 6550Estimate not published
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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 32 past lots.
1 bid19%
2–328%
4–622%
7+31%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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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
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see 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
- 11 Nov 2026, 11:54 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Nov 2026, 11:54 GMT
- Authority reference
CW0355- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107048- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b96dFind a Tender
Publisher note: Please return the completed RFI document to [email protected] by 12 noon on 7th December 2026. 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=848165. (SC Ref:848165)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Nov 2026 → 10 Feb 2027 · 2 dates- Notice published2 days ago11 Nov 2026, 11:54 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 88 days10 Feb 2027
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
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.