Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Fuel Card Services
Authority: Southend City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSouthend-on-Sea City Council (the “Council”) currently has a fuel card service contract in place to purchase approximately 55,000 litres of ULSD diesel per annum for its current fleet of 82 vehicles. The current fuel card solution provider processes approximately 1,084 transactions per annum.
The Council is looking to continue with a fuel card solution to allow its fleet to purchase fuel at a variety of retail fuel outlets across Southend-on-Sea. The more retail outlets that the fuel card service covers, then the less distance needs to be driven to get to a fuel outlet. The corresponding reduction of fuelling journeys will reduce wear and the impact on the environment thus lowering the overall carbon footprint.
CPV: Electricity · Fuels · Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Cancelled
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 (1)
- Cost: 100%
Published award criteria (1)
- Cost: 100
- Price carries 100 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 10 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Cancelled
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 14 Mar 2025, 19:29 GMT
- Last source update
- 18 Mar 2025, 17:53 GMT
- Authority reference
DN742125- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-010036- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04ed8fFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- No tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to open procedure
- Published justification
No suitable tenders were submitted in response to an open procedure, as the tender responses received did not demonstrate that they could fully meet the requirements of the Council.
Link to the contract notice for the published opportunity: www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1c1e171d-3c4f… ↗.
Notice history
3 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (2 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | TextV.1 · Section V | Section V. A contract/lot is awarded: Yes Section V.1 A contract/lot is awarded | See above | |
| — | TextDescription of the procurement · II.2.4 | — | The following text to be added: Contract start date: 1 February 2025 Contract end date: 31 January 2028 Option to extend until: 31 January 2030 |
2 amendments published without a description.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 further award records carry no date or value.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.