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Preliminary Market Engagement "PME" for the Provision of Metered District Heating Billing Solution and/or service

District heating
Software package and information systems
East Midlands (UKF21)
Published value
£200,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Leicester City Council: "Preliminary Market Engagement "PME" for the Provision of Metered District Heating Billing Solution and/or service". Published status: planning. Published value: £200,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityLeicester City CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£200,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Leicester City Council
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Leicester City Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
7.3Bids / Report
7.7% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
Alzheimer's SocietyTop vendor: 66.9% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 121 active published awards; 13 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. Published-to-award variance 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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
Alzheimer's Society2 wins£2,656,114
INTUITIVE THINKING SKILLS LTD1 win£437,125
Personnel Checks t/a Taxi Plus1 win£387,964
Inclusion Healthcare Social Enterprise CIC1 win£282,989
Heads Up Leicester Limited1 win£119,739
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityLeicester City Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published30 Sept 2025, 14:48 BST
Last source update30 Sept 2025, 14:48 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationDistrict heating, Software package and information systems
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF21)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05a506
What is being bought
Procurement description Leicester City Council (the Council) is commencing a formal Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise in advance of initiating a potential procurement process in relation to District Heating and associated services for billing from the meters installed in our residential properties. The Council is open to delivery through: • a meter reading service from data loggers for in-house billing. • a metering/billing solution to enable in-house billing. • an externally delivered metering and billing service. The purpose of this engagement is to: • Understand the level of market interest. • Gather market intelligence on available solutions • Explore potential delivery models, including in-house and outsourced provision. • Identify risks, opportunities, and innovative practices. • Inform the Outline Business Case and the procurement strategy.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £200,000
    30 Sept 2025, 14:48 BST
  2. Status changed to planning
    30 Sept 2025, 14:48 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    30 Sept 2025, 14:48 BST
  4. Buyer information updated
    30 Sept 2025, 14:48 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    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
    30 Sept 2025, 14:48 BST
  2. Procedure published
    30 Sept 2025, 14:48 BST
  3. engagement
    29 Oct 2025, 23:59 GMT · scheduled
    The council have published a PME document that includes a questionnaire we need completing by any prospective supplier in advance or no later than the deadline.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Leicester City Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PXRT-5737-VBQD
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Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published