Strategic Consultancy and Technology Services Framework

Official notice

Authority: ENERGIA GROUP NI HOLDINGS LIMITED (Public body)

Framework agreement6 lotsServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdUtilities

Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: Northern Ireland (UKN)

Framework ceiling (notional)£80,000,000total for 6 lots · framework ceiling, not attributable revenue

Submissions closed 15 May 2026awarded 3 Sept 2026

Award (standstill) to Accenture UK Limited +15 more4 awards

Framework period 5 yrsends 31 Jul 2031 · up to 31 Jul 2033 with extensions · starts 1 Aug 2026

What is being bought6 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

INTRODUCTION

Energia Group is a leading energy provider operating across both the Republic of Ireland (ROI) and Northern Ireland (NI), supplying electricity and gas to a broad and diverse customer base. In ROI, Energia serves over 300,000 residential and small business electricity and gas customers. In NI, its subsidiary Power NI is the largest electricity supplier, with approximately 550,000 domestic and business electricity customers. The Group also serves large industrial and commercial customers across the island, providing tailored energy solutions, including renewable energy offerings and energy efficiency services. Energia plays a central role in the island's energy transition, underpinned by a strong focus on sustainability, innovation, and customer-centric services.

This procurement forms a key component of Energia's broader technology transformation strategy. As the energy sector undergoes rapid change driven by evolving customer expectations, increasing regulatory complexity, and the transition to net zero, Energia is committed to modernising its technology platforms to ensure agility, resilience, and longterm value delivery.

Energia Group requires strategic partners to support us through this transformation, partnering with us to deliver both enterprise scale transformation and scalable, resilient, adaptable technology services that can support unified, efficient service across our operating markets.

Please click on the below link for further information on Energia Group ("Energia").

www.energiagroup.com ↗

Energia wish to appoint a multi supplier framework agreement to provide support in the enhancement and development of new systems and business processes. This framework is intended to establish a pool of trusted, high-quality partners capable of providing both strategic and delivery focused support. Suppliers appointed to the framework will be expected to bring deep subject matter expertise, strong delivery capability, and the ability to work collaboratively with internal teams to deliver outcomes at pace. This includes supporting enterprise scale transformation initiatives as well as providing flexible, scalable resources to augment internal capability where required.

The framework will enable Energia to:

Access highly skilled specialist resources to supplement internal teams and address skills gaps as they arise.
Scale delivery capacity efficiently to support both business-as-usual activity and project-based change.
Deliver end to end initiatives, from discovery and design through to implementation and transition into operation.
Maintain agility and resilience by drawing on a diverse supplier ecosystem, rather than relying on single supplier arrangements.

Overall, the procurement will provide a structured, compliant mechanism through which Energia can engage strategic partners who are able to support the Group's technology transformation, enhance delivery capability, and contribute meaningfully to the successful execution of its energy transition objectives.

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

How this framework works

From the published notice

Type: Closed framework
Call-offs: call-offs may be awarded directly or by further competition
Framework period: 5 yrs · up to 7 yrs from 1 Aug 2026

Published description of the framework

It is Energia's intention to request three types of services from Suppliers. These services include time and materials, implementation services and support services. Further details are provided in Schedule 1 Specification.

Energia will evaluate and award each Lot separately. Suppliers are allowed to bid for one, two, three, four, five or all six Lots - provided they can demonstrate capacity and capability.

For Suppliers participating in more than three Lots, Energia reserves the right to engage with those Suppliers prior to the tender award, to attain assurance that they will have sufficient capacity to fully fulfil the requirement.

FRAMEWORK CALL OFFS

Call off from each Framework Lot will be using one of the methods detailed below:

Ranked
Further Competition
Direct Award

Ranked

In each Lot, Suppliers will be ranked in accordance with their MAT score. The first ranked Supplier will be assigned all resource request for that Lot. However, during the contract period there may be occasions where the first ranked Supplier may not have the capacity or capability to supply the required resources, skillset or expertise. In this instance, the second ranked Supplier will be contacted to supply the required resources, skillset or expertise. Should the second ranked Supplier not have the capacity or capability, then the third ranked Supplier will be contacted and so on.

Further Competition

To drive value, a mini competition will operate with all Suppliers appointed to the specific Lot being contacted for a request for quotation/proposal. Request for quotation/proposal criteria may be based on pricing or price and quality depending on the requirement.

Direct Award

There may be occasions, when Energia may require a niche skillset or experience. Energia will contact the Supplier with this niche skillset or experience regardless of their ranked position in the Framework and they will be offered the resource request. This direct award call off will be at Energia's discretion.

Lots and requirements (6)Procurement structure

6 lots · all with a published value · evaluation weights differ by lot

Every one of these 2 lots carries the same published figure, £5,000,000: it is the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each lot's own budget, and no share per lot is published. The cards below say ceiling above rather than repeat it.

Lot #1Transformation Programme Services and DeliveryAwardedRenewal 5 yrsPublished value£40,000,000

The source published no individual description for this lot.

Contract period: 1 Aug 2026 – 31 Jul 2031 (5 yrs) · up to 31 Jul 2033 with extensionsValue: £40,000,000 exc. VAT · £48,000,000 inc. VAT