Official UK procurement notice
The Crown Estate - Urban Portfolio Residential Gas and Electricity Supply
Authority: The Crown Estate (Public body)·On behalf of: CARBONXGEN LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Crown Estate intends to procure a contract for the supply of electricity and gas to its London Residential portfolio.
The requirement is expected to comprise:
Electricity: approximately 0.192 GWh annual consumption across 20 supply points
Gas: approximately 0.939 GWh annual consumption across 4 supply points
The figures above are based on the previous 12 months' consumption and are indicative only. Actual volumes may vary during the contract term.
The procurement is expected to cover retail supply of utility energy to the identified portfolio supply points, including associated account management, billing and customer support services.
- The Bureau Service Provider will act on behalf of the contracting authority in administering this procurement process.
- Further details, including full specification, pricing structure, and contractual terms, will be made available in the Tender Notice and associated procurement documents.
- The contracting authority reserves the right to refine the scope and estimated consumption data prior to issuing the Tender Notice.
- How the procedure runs: The procurement will be conducted, via Bureau Service provider, using a competitive flexible procedure comprising of two stages. Stage One In this initial stage, all invited suppliers will need to meet the minimum requirements by the submission deadline. Suppliers will submit initial proposals, including pricing and terms. Following evaluation, a shortlist of suppliers will be selected to proceed to the next stage. Stage Two The second stage will be limited to shortlisted suppliers only. Suppliers will be expected to refine their proposals, including pricing, taking into account any feedback provided. Further evaluation will be undertaken, and additional clarification or negotiation may take place as appropriate. Following completion of the process, a preferred supplier will be identified, and contract award decision-making and approvals will be undertaken.
CPV: Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Crown Estate buys Petroleum, coal, oil and gas (CPV 09), and who usually turns up
The Crown Estate’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Petroleum, coal, oil and gas (CPV 09) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often local firms win similar work.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 63 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.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0% / 6%
2–327% / 37%
4–633% / 43%
7+40% / 13%
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 estimate30% / 44%
Within ±2%50% / 36%
Above estimate20% / 20%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 09Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 09. The comparison uses that group.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 182 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid6%
2–337%
4–643%
7+13%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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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?
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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
- Goods
- 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
- 22 Jun 2026, 14:38 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Jun 2026, 14:38 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 19 Aug 2026
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-058573- Accelerated
- Qualifying planned procurement notice
- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ba3cFind a Tender
- How it runs
The procurement will be conducted, via Bureau Service provider, using a competitive flexible procedure comprising of two stages.
Stage One
In this initial stage, all invited suppliers will need to meet the minimum requirements by the submission deadline.
Suppliers will submit initial proposals, including pricing and terms. Following evaluation, a shortlist of suppliers will be selected to proceed to the next stage.
Stage Two
The second stage will be limited to shortlisted suppliers only. Suppliers will be expected to refine their proposals, including pricing, taking into account any feedback provided.
Further evaluation will be undertaken, and additional clarification or negotiation may take place as appropriate.
Following completion of the process, a preferred supplier will be identified, and contract award decision-making and approvals will be undertaken.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 17 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
22 Jun 2026 → 1 Oct 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published125 days ago22 Jun 2026, 14:38 BST
- Tender notice expected80 days ago6 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline69 days ago17 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Award decision expected by67 days ago19 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts25 days ago1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published22 Jun 2026, 14:38 BSTUK3
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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- CARBONXGEN LIMITEDProcuring entityAccess and expertise of the energy market
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender