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Purchasing, Distribution and Administration of Solid Fuel Benefits

Coal and coal-based fuels
Fuels
Solid fuels
UK
Published value
£28,000,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy: "Purchasing, Distribution and Administration of Solid Fuel Benefits". Published status: planned. Published value: £28,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityDepartment for Business, Energy & Industrial StrategyScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planned
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£28,000,000
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Published history for Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
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Competition Density
3Bids / Report
51.6% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
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Coverage: 32 active published awards; 31 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityDepartment for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanned
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published18 Oct 2023, 17:31 BST
Last source update18 Oct 2023, 17:31 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationCoal and coal-based fuels, Fuels, Solid fuels
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-040d37
What is being bought
The purpose of this Prior Information Notice is to alert potential suppliers to an opportunity in relation to a potential requirement to support the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (“DESNZ”) deliver its legal obligations in relation to historic concessionary fuel liabilities. DESNZ wishes to commission a contract to manage the purchasing, distribution, and administration of solid fuel benefits to qualifying individuals under the National Concessionary Fuel Scheme (NCFS). We are looking to contract a supplier for up to 6 years (likely to be split into an initial 3 year term with an option to extend for an additional 3 years subject to requirements) to manage all aspects of the solid fuel supply element of the NCFS to around 3400 concessionaires who receive their concessionary fuel entitlement through a delivery of solid fuel. This number is declining in line with mortality rates. We expect the contract to commence on 29th March 2025 when a predicted 2680 concessionaires will remain. It is a demand led contract based on decreasing numbers with a number of variables and uncertainties. We therefore require a flexible service which allows for a decrease of the business and unpredicted changes in requirements.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £28,000,000
    18 Oct 2023, 17:31 BST
  2. Status changed to planned
    18 Oct 2023, 17:31 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    18 Oct 2023, 17:31 BST
  4. Buyer information updated
    18 Oct 2023, 17:31 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planned
    Published valueNot published
    The full requirements will be set out in the specification but will include: Purchase of all solid fuels – see Annex A for the list of current fuels. Delivery of solid fuel to households across Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) General administration of services to Beneficiaries including correspondence relevant to the services eg issuing the delivery letter annually Effective liaison with the National Concessionary Fuel Office (a trading name of Capita Pension Solutions Limited) The support services are likely to include: Provision of information and reporting to the Department on beneficiary numbers, deliveries, operations, complaints, and financial data Stakeholder communication with relevant parties Financial forecasting, modelling and in year monitoring Governance, including fraud controls, audit and risk management Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery arrangements Data handling compliance including GDPR considerations and cyber security provisions Effective IT systems to enable regular data exchanges with the National Concessionary Fuel Office Transition management to enable the contract to go live on 29th March 2025 Exit management including full cooperation with DESNZ and others as required. Additional information: Please access the event in the link below to review questions and upload your responses as a PDF document via the following Jaggaer link https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/90019233018B3DA49DBC To register for a Jaggaer account please follow this link – https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    18 Oct 2023, 17:31 BST
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Contracting authority GB-FTS-48692
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