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Published 13 Mar 2025, 15:10 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

12607455 - FIDDO - Fuels Information and Data for Defence Organisations

Official notice

Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Awarded value£7,097,4892 contracts · exc. VAT
Awarded 26 Mar 2025no call for competition
Awarded to S&P Global Commodity Insights, S&P Global Commodity Insights, a division of S&P Global Inc2 awards

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Operational Energy Authority’s Defence Support Team manage the Bulk Fuels Contracts for the provision of Bulk Marine, Aviation, and Road fuel worldwide, for all Front Line Commands.

The Authority has an enduring requirement to provide a capability for users across Defence to obtain up-to-date international fuels market information, monitor prices of fuels purchased under extant and future Contracts and for forward forecasting and budgeting.

712607455 - FIDDO - Fuels Information and Data for Defence Organisations - Contract Award Notice- Following on from conclusion and expiry of VTN published 13 March 2025 via Find a Tender Service (FTS)

CPV: Data capture services · Data management services · Data services · Data supply services · Fuels

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Procedure method
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
13 Mar 2025, 15:10 GMT
Last source update
28 Mar 2025, 15:56 GMT
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-011847
Classification (CPV)
Data capture servicesData management servicesData servicesData supply servicesFuels
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04ece3 Find a Tender
Why no open competition

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons

Published justification

The Operational Energy Authority (OEA), part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), following a publication of a VTN, is placing a ‘Fuels Information and Data for Defence Organisations (FIDDO)’ contract with S&P Global Inc. (S&P) for renewal of the MoD’s Platts Market Data user licence. Platts Market Data provides international commodity market pricing data, against which all OEA managed fuels contracts are benchmarked.

The contract will provide a five (5) year Platts Market Data user licence, and have an estimated value of £4,500,000 (inclusive of VAT).

In accordance with the provisions of The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 SI No. 2020/1319, this procurement falls to be regulated under the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) as amended (in particular by SI 2020/1319). Prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union is no longer appropriate. It is considered that the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the UK e-notification service (as required by the relevant legislation) is lawful in accordance with regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 for technical reasons.

Platts Market Data is the only data source able to provide the full spectrum of data for all fuel types across all required locations and is crucial to the pricing of future contracts, variation of price elements in extant contracts and to the continuity of supply of fuel to Front-Line Commands. The data is proprietary to S&P and its licences are non-transferable between users. No other economic operator is able to meet this requirement.

Publisher note: 712607455 - FIDDO - Fuels Information and Data for Defence Organisations - Contract Award Notice- Following on from conclusion and expiry of VTN published 13 March 2025 via Find a Tender Service (FTS) reference 2025-041124. Contract Awarded to supplier.

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Buyer details updated
    28 Mar 2025, 15:56 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 2
Awarded value £7,097,4892 contracts exc. VAT
Bids received 1
Contracts signed 2latest 26 Mar 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
S&P Global Commodity Insights712607455 - FIDDO - Fuels Information and Data for Defence Organisations Voluntary Transparency NoticeSubcontracting: declared£3,404,736 †—Awarded
S&P Global Commodity Insights, a division of S&P Global IncFIDDO - Fuels Information and Data for Defence Organisations£3,692,753 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
1bids———

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

Ministry of Defence

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsDefence Operational Energy Authority (OEA) Cedar 3A MOD Abbey Wood, Bristol, UK, BS34 8JHContact email

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Ministry Of Defence - OEAReview body Bristol

Bidders & participating suppliers

2 commercial parties on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.