Official UK procurement notice
OPEN Heat Network Project - Expert Heat Network Commercial Advisors
Authority: Transport for London (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionOld Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation requires a Heat Network specialist commercial advisor to provide, commercial contractual and governance oversight to monitor compliance with their obligations through interim and full financial close as well as the development and construction phase of the OPEN Heat Network Project. This will include reviewing and supporting OPDC with their contractual arrangements, regular reporting, stakeholder engagement, and monitoring of project deliverables, resource commitments, and contractual obligations to ensure alignment with the Shareholders' Agreement, Development Services Arrangement and wider project governance framework.
CPV: Energy and related services · General management consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Transport for London buys Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941), and who usually turns up
Transport for London’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941) →
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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 109 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.
The buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid44%
2–345%
4–68%
7+3%
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 estimate48%
Within ±2%32%
Above estimate20%
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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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Lot #1CPV 7941Published estimate£640k
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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 277 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–320%
4–625%
7+40%
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Where the award price may land.
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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.
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.
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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.
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- 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.
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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
- 18 Aug 2026, 12:51 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Aug 2026, 12:51 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-078521- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e680Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
18 Aug 2026 → 5 Oct 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published65 days ago18 Aug 2026, 12:51 BST
- Market engagement52 days ago31 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
Transport for London (TfL), on behalf of the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC), is undertaking preliminary market engagement to identify suppliers with demonstrable experience of delivering the same or closely comparable specialist heat-network commercial advisory services.
The potential requirement is for a specialist heat-network commercial adviser to provide commercial, contractual and governance oversight to support OPDC through interim and full financial close and during the subsequent development and construction phases of the OPEN Heat Network Project.
The anticipated services include:
Reviewing and supporting OPDC's commercial and contractual arrangements;
Monitoring compliance with contractual and governance obligations;
Providing regular project monitoring and reporting;
Supporting stakeholder engagement and governance processes;
Monitoring project deliverables, resource commitments and contractual obligations; and
Ensuring alignment with the Shareholders' Agreement, Development Services Arrangement and wider project-governance framework.
Suppliers with relevant experience of delivering the same or closely comparable requirements are invited to express their interest. The expression of interest should briefly provide:
The supplier's name and contact details;
Details of relevant heat-network commercial advisory experience;
Examples of the same or closely comparable contracts previously delivered;
The supplier's role and the scope of services provided; and
Confirmation of its capability and capacity to undertake this potential requirement.
No supplier engagement event or questionnaire is planned as part of this exercise.
Clarification questions must be submitted by email to [email protected] by 12:00 noon on 25 August 2026.
Expressions of interest must be submitted by email to [email protected] by 5:00 pm on 28 August 2026, using the subject line: "OPDC OPEN Heat Network - Preliminary Market Engagement Response."
The information received will be used to assess market interest and inform TfL and OPDC's decision regarding the most appropriate procurement route.
Participation in this preliminary market engagement does not constitute participation in a formal procurement process and will not give any supplier an advantage in any subsequent procurement. This notice does not commit TfL or OPDC to commencing a procurement or awarding a contract. Suppliers will not be reimbursed for any costs incurred in submitting a response.
Any subsequent procurement opportunity will be advertised separately in accordance with the applicable procurement requirements.
- Tender notice expected38 days ago14 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts18 days ago5 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published18 Aug 2026, 12:51 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
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