Official UK procurement notice
Technical and Professional Advisory Support to Great British Energy 2026-2029
Authority: Great British Energy (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGreat British Energy (GBE) is designed to power Britain with clean, secure, home-grown energy and become a global leader in clean energy. GBE will invest in, develop, build, and operate the technology needed to increase the UK's energy independence, giving communities a direct stake in the clean energy revolution. The organisation is set up as an Arm’s Length Body to DESNZ, with its own CEO and enabling legislation.
The delivery of Great British Energy’s (GBE) strategic objectives relies on a robust set of arrangements for procuring professional services. GBE Senior Leadership team were engaged to identify a list of activities they know their business areas are likely to require at least in the short term, but likely to be required over the next three years also. These requirements span a diverse range of technical, commercial, and organisational capabilities, ensuring that GBE is equipped to address the complexities of the UK’s clean energy transition.
GBE intends to undertake the following procurements to deliver these servcies:
Technical & Professional Advisory Services - via an open Competitive Flexible Procedure
Financial & Commercial Due Diligence Support - via the Crown Commercial Service's Management Consultancy 4 (MCF4) Framework (Lot 4 Finance)
Technical Due Diligence Support - via the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero's Energy and Net Zero Professional Services (ENZPS) Framework (Lot 2 Renewables & Infrastructure).
The anticipated spend over three years for all professional services is up to £30million including VAT.
CPV: Banking and investment services · Business development consultancy services · Energy and related services · Technical analysis or consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Great British Energy buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up
Great British Energy’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: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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 Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Scotland.
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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 48 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.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid5%
2–329%
4–637%
7+29%
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 estimate61%
Within ±2%26%
Above estimate13%
Assess each lot i
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 7131Published estimate£25m
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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 59 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid5%
2–329%
4–637%
7+29%
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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.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 3 Dec 2025, 12:11 GMT
- Last source update
- 3 Dec 2025, 12:20 GMT
- Authority reference
prj_6310- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-079312- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 Dec 2025 → 26 Mar 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published322 days ago3 Dec 2025, 12:11 GMT
- Market engagement315 days ago10 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
GBE are inviting Suppliers for each identified route to market to hear about each requirement in a single event. This will provide an appreciation of how the Services will interact. This event will outline and test the opportunities and does not commit GBE to undertaking these procurements. The intention of the event is to test contractual arrangements and scope with the market to identify opportunities for improvement, hence we would strongly appreciate any participation.
GBE will host an online virtual Market Engagement Event which will consist of an online interactive presentation via Microsoft Teams. This will be followed up by a questionnaire to all attendees which we would encourage people to respond to.
The event is scheduled to occur 10th December 11:00-12:00 GMT.
If you wish to attend, please sign up using the form here: forms.office.com/e/bVyzJrqRtX ↗
If you are unable to attend the event but would still wish to hear about the opportunities, there is an option to do so in the above form.
As a reminder, only those Suppliers awarded a place on the identified Frameworks will be able to submit mini competition responses to these identified due diligence Services. Neither of threse Frameworks are open for new applications. However, the Competitive Flexible Procedure is an open procurement for any Supplier to respond to, run under the conditions established in the Procurement Act 2023. This Notice is informing Suppliers of an Early Market Engagement Event and is not notifying the commencement of a procurement opportunity.
- Tender notice expected285 days ago9 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts210 days ago26 Mar 2026
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 3 Dec 2025- Pipeline notice published3 Dec 2025, 12:11 GMTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Dec 2025, 12:14 GMTUK2
- Published value updated to £25,000,0003 Dec 2025, 12:14 GMTwas £15,000,000
- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Dec 2025, 12:20 GMTUK2
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 (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender