Official UK procurement notice
PROVISION OF CM METERING AUDIT & TEST ASSURANCE SERVICES
Authority: Low Carbon Contracts Company (Central government)
The Authority requires a suitable partner to provide technical assurance for metering, measurement, and related requirements under the Capacity Market (CM) Scheme. This will be for a period of 36 months (3 years) with an option for the Authority to extend the contract term by up to a maximum of 12 months.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Authority requires a suitable partner to provide technical assurance for metering, measurement, and related requirements under the Capacity Market (CM) Scheme. This will be for a period of 36 months (3 years) with an option for the Authority to extend the contract term by up to a maximum of 12 months.
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- How the procedure runs: 1) The Authority invites tender responses for our requirement, in accordance with the Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) and Invitation to Tender (ITT). 2) Should it be required by the Authority, we reserve the right to carry out a presentation stage and/or a best and final offer (BAFO)
CPV: Energy and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£483,953
- Economic & financial standing
- Legal capacity - the potential supplier has the required levels of insurance we have specified as a minimum requirement
- Legal capacity - the potential supplier completes the Procurement Checklist appropriately to provide confidence that they are compliant with the UK GDPR regs and Cybersecurity requirements
- Legal capacity - the potential supplier provides with their Modern Slavery Policy or Statement
- Technical & professional ability
- Technical ability - the potential supplier is able to demonstrate at least one example where they have provided similar services, to provide confidence to us as the contracting authority, that the Bidder has the technical ability to deliver our requirement
- Technical ability - where the potential supplier intends to subcontract a proportion of the contract, the Bidder demonstrates how they have previously maintained healthy supply chains with their subcontractors, to provide us as the contracting authority with confidence
- Technical ability - the potential supplier provides their Health and Safety policy or statement
- Technical ability - the potential supplier provides a copy of the Cyber Essentials Plus Certification
- Technical ability - the potential supplier provides details of how they ensure quality, such as an ISO Certification, Quality Statement or internal Policy.
- Technical ability - the potential supplier provides a copy of the ISO27001 Certification or proof of future compliance
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).
Published sub-criteria (3)
- Technical Proposals: 60%
- Pricing Proposal: 30%
- Social Value Proposal: 10%
Published award criteria (3)
- Technical Proposals: Quality
- Social Value Proposal: Social Value
- Pricing Proposal: Price
- Economic & financial standing
- Legal capacity - the potential supplier has the required levels of insurance we have specified as a minimum requirement
- Legal capacity - the potential supplier completes the Procurement Checklist appropriately to provide confidence that they are compliant with the UK GDPR regs and Cybersecurity requirements
- Legal capacity - the potential supplier provides with their Modern Slavery Policy or Statement
- Technical & professional ability
- Technical ability - the potential supplier is able to demonstrate at least one example where they have provided similar services, to provide confidence to us as the contracting authority, that the Bidder has the technical ability to deliver our requirement
- Technical ability - where the potential supplier intends to subcontract a proportion of the contract, the Bidder demonstrates how they have previously maintained healthy supply chains with their subcontractors, to provide us as the contracting authority with confidence
- Technical ability - the potential supplier provides their Health and Safety policy or statement
- Technical ability - the potential supplier provides a copy of the Cyber Essentials Plus Certification
- Technical ability - the potential supplier provides details of how they ensure quality, such as an ISO Certification, Quality Statement or internal Policy.
- Technical ability - the potential supplier provides a copy of the ISO27001 Certification or proof of future compliance
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £322,341 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Low Carbon Contracts Company buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up
Low Carbon Contracts Company’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: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 95 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid20% / 14%
2–360% / 23%
4–620% / 29%
7+0% / 33%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Awards below, close to or above the estimate, per lot. The buyer side adds below-threshold contracts with a pre-award estimate; an award inside a published range counts as close.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate42%
Within ±2%42%
Above estimate16%
Assess each lot i
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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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.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 7131Published estimate£484k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
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 456 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid14%
2–323%
4–629%
7+33%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
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 and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts, the earlier contracts and past suppliers on a tender's competition panel, the buyer's decision figure and its award against estimate; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- 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.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA, CPTPP)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 6 Nov 2026, 10:55 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Nov 2026, 10:55 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 1 Feb 2027
- Authority reference
CRN2026-020- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105584- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b62bFind a Tender
- How it runs
- The Authority invites tender responses for our requirement, in accordance with the Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) and Invitation to Tender (ITT).
- Should it be required by the Authority, we reserve the right to carry out a presentation stage and/or a best and final offer (BAFO)
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Delta eSourcing- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 16 Dec 2026, 14:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 9 Dec 2026, 14:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 Nov 2026 → 24 Feb 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published4 days ago6 Nov 2026, 10:55 GMT
- Today10 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 28 days9 Dec 2026, 14:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 35 days16 Dec 2026, 14:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 83 days1 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 105 days24 Feb 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published6 Nov 2026, 10:55 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender