Official UK procurement notice
Strategic Enterprise Modelling Capability Solution
Authority: NATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNESO is inviting suppliers to take part in pre-market engagement to help us understand market capability, appetite and enterprise solution options for Strategic Capability for end-to-end Modelling Services.
As NESO continues its transformation into an independent public corporation and advances its strategic data and digital capabilities, it is seeking to establish a modern enterprise CNI technical platform that enables the consistent representation, management and governance of data, models, calculations, business concepts and relationships across the organisation.
The proposed capability will enable enterprise-wide technical solution for modelling, analytical transparency, decision support and AI-enabled innovation. This technology is aimed at establishing capabilities including but not limited to Energy data ontology and orchestration layer, lineage of source to decision auditability, cross modelling scenario analysis and complex modelling, when needed. It is intended to support the integration of data, context, calculations, scenarios and business knowledge across a range of NESO services, technology platforms and operational domains. NESO operates in a Critical National Infrastructure environment hence there is a need to comply to NESO's Data and Security policy and control postures.
NESO is undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement to:
- Understand the maturity of currently available market solutions.
- Inform the future procurement strategy and requirements.
- Explore implementation, transition and operating model options.
- Understand commercial models, licensing approaches and contractual considerations.
- Assess supplier capability, experience and innovation within this market.
- Identify potential risks, dependencies and transition requirements associated with replacement of existing services.
The solution is expected to support outcomes including but not limited to:
- Achieve trust and transparency in NESO's advice to stakeholders, customers/industry participants regulators through improved quality of modelling outputs and ability to trace from source to recommendation/ decisions.
- Achieve measurable at pace decision making and optimum developer experience through seamless, intuitive and self-serve capabilities.
- Enhanced interoperability between NESO's data, analytical and operational platforms.
- Achieve standardization, common representation and rigour in NESO's energy modelling and analytics by connecting data, context, calculation and scenarios and demonstrable adherence to Data standards, analytical standards and technical standards aligned to NESO's operational requirements.
- Establish modern best-in-class technical capability enabling innovation opportunities and exploit AI
- Provision of secure, resilient and highly available services
At this stage the contract term is anticipated to be an initial term of 5 years with extension options up to 2 years in 12-month increments however this may change based on the discussions held as part of the Pre Market Engagement Activity to ensure NESO can meet its key and strategic objectives.
CPV: Data services · Software package and information systems · Software-related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED buys Software-related services (CPV 7226), and who usually turns up
NATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED’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: Software-related services (CPV 7226) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside South East England.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 96 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid38%
2–350%
4–613%
7+0%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate63%
Within ±2%38%
Above estimate0%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 7226Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 71 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–323%
4–623%
7+39%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
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.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 25 Aug 2026, 18:25 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Aug 2026, 18:25 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-081041- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ebf4Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
25 Aug 2026 → 1 Aug 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published57 days ago25 Aug 2026, 18:25 BST
- Market engagement26 days ago25 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
NESO is using this engagement to test our thinking on a Strategic Enterprise Modelling Capability Solution and understand what suppliers could deliver through any future contract. The following engagement process is indicative
Correspondence:
Interested parties can notify of their interest to [email protected] to be registered by the engagement deadline date on NESO's iValua platform to:
- Be informed of the engagement process and timeline and any updates.
- Access and complete any required questionnaire/documentation which NESO will then collate to develop their understanding of the market and complete their assurance process.
- Submission of clarifications, if required .
NESO will take appropriate steps to maintain transparency, equal treatment, and fair competition, including sharing relevant information from engagement activity as appropriate via the Ivalua platform.
Participation in this engagement does not confer any advantage or disadvantage in future procurement activities.
Briefing Session:
NESO intends to hold an online briefing session and will issue further information to registered suppliers who have expressed an interest. Suppliers attending will have the opportunity to ask questions. All questions will be collated and shared via the iValua platform.
Presentations:
NESO may seek presentations and will communicate and liaise with all interested parties should this be required.
NESO may decide not to proceed with a procurement, may proceed using a different scope or structure, or may undertake further preliminary market engagement on additional topics before progressing further.
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 283 days1 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published25 Aug 2026, 18:25 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- 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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender