Official UK procurement notice
Rotherham Local Area Energy Plan
Authority: Rotherham Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis procurement is for a Rotherham local area energy plan, or 'LAEP'. A Rotherham LAEP will be expected to deliver the following:
- Stakeholder Engagement with primary and secondary external stakeholders
- Data collection and analysis
- Modelling scenarios and pathways to net zero local area carbon dioxide emissions from the energy system in Rotherham.
- Identifying, prioritising and refining projects and enabling actions required to achieve local and regional climate change mitigation goals.
- Defining a monitoring and evaluation framework, comprising key indicators of progress against decarbonisation pathways and delivery, as follows:
- A final report and executive summary for policy makers, conveying the scale and range of activity needed to achieve a net zero local energy system; estimates of the total investment required and additional economic, social and environmental value which may be realised from the investment; and any key differences between areas within Rotherham.
It is anticipated that the contract will commence December 2026 and will run for a period of 9 months making the expiry date September 2027.
Tender document including specification and instructions to bid can be downloaded for free on the tendering portal, YORtender, yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp ↗.
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Environmental services · Research and development services and related consultancy services
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single lot · value publishedWhat it takes to wini
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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).
Lot awarding rule: Quality Criteria: 52.50% Price Criteria: 27.50% Social Value Criteria: 20.00% Full details within tender documentation
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £255,805 (twice the annual value).
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 Rotherham Borough Council buys Environmental services (CPV 9070), and who usually turns up
Rotherham Borough Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Environmental services (CPV 9070) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Yorkshire and the Humber.
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Half of these awards were announced within 68 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid50% / 75%
2–350% / 17%
4–60% / 0%
7+0% / 8%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate29% / 38%
Within ±2%71% / 63%
Above estimate0% / 0%
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Lot #1CPV 9070Published estimate£96k
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1 bid45%
2–325%
4–614%
7+16%
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Middle 50%£96k
Estimate£96k
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| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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Adler and Allan LtdLarge | £1.8m17 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 4 live · £131k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 13% above n=4 |
| £75k1 awards in 36m · last 6 months ago | 1 live · £75k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
Green GainSME | 3 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 1 live · £15k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 7% below n=1 |
| £46k1 awards in 36m · last 9 months ago | None on file | 40% below n=1 | |
| £35k1 awards in 36m · last 9 months ago | None on file | 5% below n=1 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- 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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 10 Sept 2025, 17:36 BST
- Last source update
- 14 Oct 2026, 11:13 BST
- Authority reference
25-119- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090866- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-059819Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via EU-Supply (CTM)- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
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YORTENDER Ref 100112094
Timeline
10 Sept 2025 → 7 Dec 2026 · 6 dates- Planning notice published10 Sept 2025, 17:36 BST
- Market engagement384 days ago30 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
This notice is issued to provide information regarding a market engagement opportunity only.
All of Rotherham Council's procurement opportunities are published on YORtender. To bid for this opportunity when it becomes live your organisation will need to be registered to the portal. You can register your organisation here: yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp ↗
All suppliers who wish to bid for Rotherham Council procurement opportunities must be registered on the Central Digital Platform, with all supplier information submitted and kept up to date.
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) are keen to understand the market options and availability for an upcoming procurement for the development of the internal business case for a local area energy plan covering the geographic area of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough.
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) wishes to understand the capacity of the market to deliver a Local Area Energy Plan (LAEP) which covers the geographic area of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough; the full range of innovation which the market can provide, in respect of LAEP outputs; and the likely costs and timescales associated with different levels of ambition, in drafting the specification for a Rotherham LAEP.
RMBC also wishes to understand the capacity of the market, costs and timescales associated with assessing the feasibility of a low carbon district heat network in Rotherham Town Centre, to include the identification of heat network opportunity areas, evaluation of low carbon heat sources (including but not limited to mine water heat, waste heat from industry and air, water or ground source heat pumps combined with renewable electricity generation) and technologies for implementation, delivery models, project costs, forecast return on investment and opportunities to attract external funding and investment.
This market engagement therefore seeks to gather any knowledge and insights which potential suppliers can provide, regarding the preparation of a Rotherham LAEP and heat network study, their outputs and viability.
All costs associated with providing a response to the market engagement must be borne by the Supplier. RMBC will not contribute in any way to meeting the production costs of any response.
No down-selection of potential providers will take place as a consequence of any responses to this market engagement.
Engagement in this Market Engagement (ME) exercise is via a questionnaire published on the tendering portal YORtender at the following link: yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp ↗
All correspondence in relation to this ME will be carried out via the YORtender portal. Potential providers may raise questions or seek clarification regarding any aspect of this document at any time prior to the response deadline. Questions must be submitted using the 'Messaging' function on YORtender in sufficient time to allow the Council to formulate and distribute a response at least 3 calendar days before the due date for the return of this ME.
Submissions to be returned via the YORtender portal by 09:00 on 30/09/2025
- Tender notice published25 days ago25 Sept 2026, 10:34 BST
- Latest notice published6 days ago14 Oct 2026, 11:13 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 17 days6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 48 days7 Dec 2026
Notice history
8 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 10 Sept 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Sept 2025, 17:36 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published25 Sept 2026, 10:34 BSTUK4
- Published value updated25 Sept 2026, 10:34 BST
- Status changed to active25 Sept 2026, 10:34 BST
- Procurement method changed25 Sept 2026, 10:34 BST
- Deadline published: 30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT25 Sept 2026, 10:34 BST
- Tender notice published14 Oct 2026, 11:13 BSTUK4
- Deadline moved to 6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT14 Oct 2026, 11:13 BST+7 days · was 30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
Published amendments (1)
Bid deadline extended by 1 week from 30/10/2026 to 06/11/2026
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 (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender