Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-02-11
Buyer: West Mercia Energy (a Local Authority Joint Committee of Shropshire Council, Worcestershire County Council, Telford and Wrekin Council and Herefordshire Council)
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 09000000
Estimated value: 500000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The establishment of a dynamic purchasing system for the supply of natural gas and electricity to the customers of West Mercia Energy (WME) in its constituent authorities' areas of Shropshire, Herefordshire, Telford and Wrekin and Worcestershire together with other customers of WME (current and potential) as identified below.
West Mercia Energy (WME) is operated under the authority of a joint committee formed under the Local Government Act 1972, the member authorities being Shropshire Council, Herefordshire Council, Worcestershire County Council and Telford and Wrekin Council. A joint agreement between those member authorities determines the governance arrangements. The joint committee is the elected member body responsible for the discharge of the functions of the member authorities.
The objectives of the WME is to maintain effective, efficient and economic arrangements for the purchase and supply of energy at the request of and to the satisfaction of the member authorities and to other public bodies, non-profit making and charitable organisations, education providers, including Academies, and private sector organisations delivering public services on behalf of public bodies and such other organisations which may be approved by the joint committee (including approval via the Annual Business Plan) where it is permitted by law and is to the benefit of member authorities to do so.
In accordance with the above stated aims and objectives, WME are seeking to appoint energy suppliers on to a dynamic purchasing system which will be utilised and owned by WME, but operated and managed by Open Energy Market Ltd (OEM), in order to provide energy contract tendering.
The DPS is not be divided into defined lots. Instead all suppliers on accepted onto the DPS can bid for tenders that they feel they are competent in delivering. Where a tender requests more than one type of service then a supplier can bid for just part of that tender.
This procurement is being undertaken by OEM, with WME as the contracting authority for itself and as lead authority for the supply of natural gas and electricity to the customers of WME in its constituent authorities’areas of Shropshire, Herefordshire, Telford and Wrekin and Worcestershire together with other customers of WME (current and potential) in general as further identified at the following websites, but also to include any organisation within the description in the paragraph above not so identified:
https://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/About_us/Regulation/Registering_charities_index.aspx (charities);
WME 007 — West Mercia Energy Dynamic Purchasing System for the Supply of Natural Gas and Electricity Reference Number: WME 007


Winner: EDF Energy Customers Ltd
Award value: 500000000
Number of bids: 16