Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Regulatory Risk and Decision Support Capability
Authority: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNGN have the below essential requirements from the product solution:
Asset risk regulatory reporting (Network Asset Risk Metrics - NARMs) - We have a licence obligation to report Asset Risk and Health annually to Ofgem. This process is currently undertaken through a combination of our current Regulatory Risk and Decision Support Tool generated outputs and Microsoft Excel based manipulation. Audit functionality is necessary as part of this requirement.
- Cost Benefit Analysis - We need to execute a consistent, corporatised, risk and output-based cost benefit calculator to inform individual investment decisions and support future business plan submissions.
- Delivery of RIIO-GD3 business plan commitments - We must monitor performance against our RIIO-GD3 plan, including an ability to identify areas of over/under performance.
Full details can be found in the scope of works.
- How the procedure runs: This procurement will follow the following process: - Tender notice issued (this notice) for 25 days - Interested suppliers to contact NGN and be invited to Conditions of Participation via Market Dojo (Pass/Fail) - Suppliers who Pass the Conditions of Participation will be invited to PQQ - PQQ responses evaluated Suppliers who score over 60% will be invited to tender (RFP) - RFP live for 25 days - RFP responses evaluated based on 40% non-commercial, 60% commercial criteria - Best and Final Offer requested - Interviews carried out - Final evaluations completed - Suppliers notified of the outcome Full details are made available in the tender scope. If supplementary stages are required throughout the process, or stages noted in the strategy defined above are no longer required, it is at NGN's discretion to include or remove stages. It is at the discretion of NGN to change the weightings/criteria or add additional sub criteria/weightings to the PQQ or RFP if there is a need to do so before the submission deadline of the relevant stage. Any changes to the evaluation criteria will be communicate
CPV: Software programming and consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£2,520,000
- Technical & professional ability
The aim of this Tender Notice is to:
- Ensure we provide bidders with adequate information to determine if they wish to proceed with this tender event.
- Provide NGN with a more detailed understanding of the interest within the market.
The Tender Notice process is the first stage of multistage procurement process. All interested suppliers must follow the below steps in order to proceed with the conditions of participation and PQQ stages of this procurement event:
Sign up or Sign in to NGNs Tendering Portal - Market Dojo. Follow this link to do so:
secure.marketdojo.com/signup ↗
When you have logged in to your dashboard, you'll need to click the 'Show all or enter invite code' button under the Event Invitations section.
You'll need to enter this code: B91D5142C4
It will then notify NGN to approve you onto the tender event. Once approved you will be given access to the event, where you'll be taken to the Conditions of Participation stage, this stage is a pass/fail and will be locked until after the PQQ submission deadline. Any supplier who fails this stage will automatically be withdrawn from the process and will not gain access to the PQQ.
All suppliers who pass this stage will be automatically taken to the PQQ where they will be given a deadline and detail to complete.
Once the PQQ has been evaluated by NGNs internal evaluation team all those who meet the criteria will be sent to the RFP stage where NGN will assess against award criteria.
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 (2)
- Non-Commercial: 40%
- Commercial: 60%
Published award criteria (2)
- Commercial: Price - 90% Contractual - 10%
- Non-Commercial
- Technical & professional ability
The aim of this Tender Notice is to:
- Ensure we provide bidders with adequate information to determine if they wish to proceed with this tender event.
- Provide NGN with a more detailed understanding of the interest within the market.
The Tender Notice process is the first stage of multistage procurement process. All interested suppliers must follow the below steps in order to proceed with the conditions of participation and PQQ stages of this procurement event:
Sign up or Sign in to NGNs Tendering Portal - Market Dojo. Follow this link to do so:
secure.marketdojo.com/signup ↗
When you have logged in to your dashboard, you'll need to click the 'Show all or enter invite code' button under the Event Invitations section.
You'll need to enter this code: B91D5142C4
It will then notify NGN to approve you onto the tender event. Once approved you will be given access to the event, where you'll be taken to the Conditions of Participation stage, this stage is a pass/fail and will be locked until after the PQQ submission deadline. Any supplier who fails this stage will automatically be withdrawn from the process and will not gain access to the PQQ.
All suppliers who pass this stage will be automatically taken to the PQQ where they will be given a deadline and detail to complete.
Once the PQQ has been evaluated by NGNs internal evaluation team all those who meet the criteria will be sent to the RFP stage where NGN will assess against award criteria.
- Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 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
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- 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
- 26 Feb 2026, 15:44 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Feb 2026, 15:44 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 3 Jul 2026
- Authority reference
183692- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-017511- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065d64Find a Tender
- How it runs
This procurement will follow the following process:
- Tender notice issued (this notice) for 25 days
- Interested suppliers to contact NGN and be invited to Conditions of Participation via
Market Dojo (Pass/Fail)
- Suppliers who Pass the Conditions of Participation will be invited to PQQ
- PQQ responses evaluated
Suppliers who score over 60% will be invited to tender (RFP)
- RFP live for 25 days
- RFP responses evaluated based on 40% non-commercial, 60% commercial criteria
- Best and Final Offer requested
- Interviews carried out
- Final evaluations completed
- Suppliers notified of the outcome
Full details are made available in the tender scope.
If supplementary stages are required throughout the process, or stages noted in the
strategy defined above are no longer required,
it is at NGN's discretion to include or remove stages.
It is at the discretion of NGN to change the weightings/criteria or add additional sub
criteria/weightings to the PQQ or RFP if there is a need to do so before the submission
deadline of the relevant stage.
Any changes to the evaluation criteria will be communicate
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 23 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadline
- 23 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
The aim of this Tender Notice is to:
- Ensure we provide bidders with adequate information to determine if they wish to proceed with this tender event.
- Provide NGN with a more detailed understanding of the interest within the market.
The Tender Notice process is the first stage of multistage procurement process. All interested suppliers must follow the below steps in order to proceed with the conditions of participation and PQQ stages of this procurement event:
Sign up or Sign in to NGNs Tendering Portal - Market Dojo. Follow this link to do so:
secure.marketdojo.com/signup ↗
When you have logged in to your dashboard, you'll need to click the 'Show all or enter invite code' button under the Event Invitations section.
You'll need to enter this code: B91D5142C4
It will then notify NGN to approve you onto the tender event. Once approved you will be given access to the event, where you'll be taken to the Conditions of Participation stage, this stage is a pass/fail and will be locked until after the PQQ submission deadline. Any supplier who fails this stage will automatically be withdrawn from the process and will not gain access to the PQQ.
All suppliers who pass this stage will be automatically taken to the PQQ where they will be given a deadline and detail to complete.
Once the PQQ has been evaluated by NGNs internal evaluation team all those who meet the criteria will be sent to the RFP stage where NGN will assess against award criteria.
Timeline
26 Feb 2026 → 22 Oct 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice published237 days ago26 Feb 2026, 15:44 GMT
- Submission deadline212 days ago23 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Award decision expected by110 days ago3 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Contract startstoday22 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published26 Feb 2026, 15:44 GMTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender