Official UK procurement notice
Project for the Design, Development, Build, Supply & Maintenance of an End-to-End Solution consisting of Pre-payment Gas Metering Equipment and associated Meter Management System ‘23
Authority: Phoenix Energy Group Ltd (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis tender process is being led by Phoenix Natural Gas Limited in conjunction with, and for the benefit of, all of the clients specified in Section VI.3 below.
Phoenix Natural Gas Ltd, acting as a Central Purchasing Body, seeks to appoint a suitably experienced Service Provider to design, develop, build, supply & maintain an end-to-end solution that delivers a robust network consisting of a Pre-payment Gas Metering Solution and associated Meter Management System.
Further details of the supplies and services required are set out in the draft Invitation to Tender documentation, made available with the associated Pre Qualification Ref: pqq_4442.
CPV: Data collection and collation services · Database-management system · Electronic meters
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 1 suppliers
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1The supplies/ services required through this procurement exercise entail the design,…AwardedPublished value£65,000,000
The supplies/ services required through this procurement exercise entail the design, development, build and provision of an end to end pre-payment gas metering solution which includes an associated meter management system. Additional information: Phoenix Natural Gas Ltd reserve the right at any time to: reject any, or all, responses and to cancel or withdraw from this procurement process at any stage; award a Contract without prior notice; change the basis, the procedures and timescales set out - or referred to - within the tender documentation; require any Applicant or subsequent Tenderer, to clarify any submissions.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Legal form for consortia
- Subject to the status and involvement of the parties, an Applicant may be required to commit to joint and several liability in respect of any contract awarded. Alternatively, the lead operator may be required to take total responsibility or a consortium to form a legal entity before entering into any contract.
- Shortlisting
- Interested Parties should search for the relevant project at https://e-sourcingni.bravosolutions.co.uk. For those wishing to participate, they must first complete and submit the relevant PQQ on, or before, the due date. Phoenix, along with the other clients and in accordance with the PQQ, shall draw up a short-list of Applicants based upon the completed PQQs received. Those shortlisted Applicants will then be invited to the tender stage which shall involve the completion and submission of, on or before a pre-determined time and date, an Invitation to Tender document. The responses submitted shall be evaluated and a further short-list may be drawn up from which a presentation/ negotiation stage may follow. Ultimately the tender deemed the most economically advantageous -- the one that proposes the most appropriate design & build solution - shall be awarded a Framework Agreement for the supply of pre-payment meters along with a Contract for the development of a Meter Management System.
- Successive reduction
- Candidates will be reduced successively across stages
- “Project for the Design, Development, Build, Supply & Maintenance of an…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 1 suppliers, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 30 Jun 2023, 14:17 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Apr 2025, 16:26 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-013765- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03dde7Find a Tender- Contract terms summary
As stated in the tender documentation.
- Electronic trading
- electronic payment
- Performance terms
As stated in the tender documentation.
- Review procedure
Phoenix will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of contract is communicated to all participating entities. The standstill period provides time for unsuccessful participating entities to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (as amended) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (Northern Ireland).
Publisher note: The clients who may ultimately avail of any Framework Agreement for the supply of the Pre-payment Metering Equipment consist of the following Natural Gas Network Operators: 1. Phoenix Natural Gas Limited (trading as Phoenix Energy). 2. Firmus Energy (Distribution) Limited. 3. SGN Natural Gas Limited. With regards to the Software Development Agreement for the Meter Management System, the Contracting Entity shall be Phoenix Natural Gas however the aforementioned Network Operators and the following Gas Suppliers (plus any additional gas supplier that may subsequently enter into the market) shall be reliant on this provision and, as such, shall be entitled to 3rd Party Rights through the relevant Agreement: The Gas Suppliers consist of: 1. Firmus Energy (Supply) Limited. 2. SSE Airtricity Gas Supply (NI) Limited. Applicants wishing to be considered, must first complete a Pre-qualification Questionnaire (PQQ). Only those Applicants that successfully pass the PQQ stage shall be invited to complete the relevant tender documentation. This tender is being procured competitively in accordance with the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (as amended). The procedure to be followed for this procurement is the negotiated procedure. The costs of responding to this notice and participation in the process will be borne by each participating entity. All discussions and correspondence will be deemed strictly subject to contract until a formal contract is entered into. Any subsequent formal contract(s) shall not be binding until they have been signed and dated by the duly authorised representatives of each of the relevant participating parties.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://e-sourcingni.bravosolution.co.uk ↗
- Appointment period ends
- 28 Jul 2023, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 270 days from the deadline
- Deposits and guarantees
Phoenix and the clients each reserve the right to require bonds, deposits, guarantees or other forms of undertaking or security to ensure proper contractual performance.
Timeline
28 Jul 2023 → 8 Apr 2025 · 3 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown28 Jul 2023, 12:00 BST
- Invitations to tender expected4 Sept 2023, 00:00 BST
- Notice published8 Apr 2025, 16:26 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete8 Apr 2025, 16:26 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates; the JSON mirror lists them.
Contracts
Provision of a Pre-payment Meter & Meter Management System Design & Build/ End to End Solution
- Signed
- 7 Feb 2025
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of Justice in Northern IrelandMediation bodyReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria