Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-04-25
Buyer: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 38421100 | 38551000 | 38554000 | 45333200 | 48000000
Estimated value: 150000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Crown Commercial Service has put in place a Framework Agreement for Utilities Management Software, Metering and Ancillary Services to make full end to end data management services available to our customers. The aim of this Agreement is to provide customers with the key data required to unlock savings across their utilities portfolios.
This Agreement covers 3 core areas — metering services for all utilities (Lots 1-7), utilities data management software (Lot 8), and utilities bureau services (Lot 9).
The framework agreement is available to use by the UK public sector bodies identified in the OJEU Contract Notice (and any future successors to these organisations), including central government departments and their arm's length bodies, non-departmental public bodies, wider public sector, NHS bodies, local authorities, and health and third sector organisations.
The Supplier shall provide a full suite of Meter Operator (MOP), Data Aggregation and Data Collection (DA/DC) Services for Half Hourly Electricity Metering Hardware including:
vi. Data Aggregation and Data Collection (DA/DC) Services in line with the relevant practices of the Balancing Settlement Code (BSC);
vii. provide aggregated Half Hourly Electricity data for all relevant Metering Hardware for each initial Settlement Run and Reconciliation Settlement Run before the deadlines established within the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC), Section N, Clause 3 Payment Calendar;
The duration for the placing of orders is the initial Framework Agreement period of three (3) years. The Authority may extend the duration of the Framework Agreement for any period or periods up to a maximum of one (1) years in total from the expiry of the initial Framework Agreement period.
The Supplier shall provide Metering Services for electricity Metering Hardware (excluding Half Hourly Electricity Metering Hardware) including Import, Export and Generation. This shall include:
ii. provision of Sub-Metering, Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) or Data Logger Hardware (classified as Metering Hardware);
v. ongoing Maintenance of Metering Hardware throughout the life of the Call-Off Contract with the Contracting Authority;
viii. communication of Data to the Contracting Authority and relevant utilities supplier for billing purposes.
The duration for the placing of orders is the initial Framework Agreement period of three (3) years. The Authority may extend the duration of the Framework Agreement for any period or periods up to a maximum of one (1) years in total from the expiry of the initial Framework Agreement period.
The Supplier shall provider Metering Services for Daily Metered and Non-Daily Metered Gas Metering Hardware including:
i. provision of Sub-Metering, Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) or Data Logger Hardware (referred as Metering Hardware);
vii. communication of Data to the Contracting Authority and relevant utilities supplier for billing purposes as requested by the Contracting Authority.


Winner: SMS Energy Service Ltd
Award value: 150000000
Number of bids: 24