Official UK procurement notice
Collective purchasing scheme for domestic low-carbon technologies – Preliminary Market Engagement
Authority: Ambition North Wales (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe North Wales Corporate Joint Committee, known as Ambition North Wales, leading on behalf of the six North Wales local authorities, are exploring opportunities to secure a delivery partner to establish and operate a regional collective purchasing scheme for domestic low-carbon technologies.
Project HARP (Home Adoption of Renewables Programme) aims to help homeowners and other eligible residents, as well as SMEs and local community centres, purchase high-quality installations at cheaper competitive prices through a supported group-purchasing model. The scheme will support delivery of Local Area Energy Plans and wider regional and national decarbonisation objectives.
The anticipated technology scope comprises:
- Solar photovoltaic systems
- Battery energy storage systems
- Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
- Associated equipment, warranties, customer support and aftercare
The North Wales area covers the local authority areas of Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey and Wrexham.
CPV: Batteries · Chargers · Energy and related services · Marketing services · Photovoltaic cells · Project-management services other than for construction work · Solar energy
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Ambition North Wales buys Electronic equipment (CPV 3171), and who usually turns up
Ambition North Wales has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Electronic equipment (CPV 3171) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Across this market, small firms won 50% of awards with a known supplier size.
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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.
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.
Across this market, 5% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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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 74 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.
Across this market, at least 50% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid25%
2–358%
4–617%
7+0%
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 estimate56%
Within ±2%33%
Above estimate11%
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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.
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 3171Published estimate£1.5m
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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 13 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid31%
2–338%
4–631%
7+0%
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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.
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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Concession
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 9 Sept 2026, 10:22 BST
- Last source update
- 9 Sept 2026, 10:22 BST
- Authority reference
26-010ANW- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-085235- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f546Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
9 Sept 2026 → 15 Feb 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published49 days ago9 Sept 2026, 10:22 BST
- Market engagement20 days ago7 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Ambition North Wales is investigating the potential of engaging a delivery partner with technical and marketing expertise to run collective purchasing schemes for domestic low-carbon technologies as part of a joint exercise with 6 Local Authorities.
The aim of such an initiative would be to enable homeowners in owner-occupier properties to install high-quality in scope renewable energy products at a reduced price from trusted installers.
The delivery partner will be expected to:
- work with the 6 local authorities to maximise customer access to the scheme
- Design and deliver targeted and bilingual resident marketing, including direct mail and wider promotional activity.
- Provide a secure registration platform and manage the customer journey from registration to installation and aftercare.
- Recruit, qualify and manage appropriately accredited installers with the capacity to deliver across North Wales.
- Operate a reverse auction or equivalent group-purchasing process to secure competitive offers.
- Manage technical quality, customer service, complaints, warranties, defect rectification and installer contingencies.
- Provide performance, risk, customer satisfaction, carbon and local economic benefit reporting.
Ambition North Wales sees this opportunity operating as a services concession arrangement.
This Preliminary Market Engagement Notice does not guarantee any future procurement activity. Responses will inform our procurement strategy, which may or may not include a future competitive tender process.
Ambition North Wales would like to hear from interested organisations with their views on the opportunity.
A questionnaire has been created to understand the market’s interest in the opportunity. The questionnaire for completion can be found at the following url. Please copy and paste into your browser:
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If you have any trouble accessing the questionnaire, please contact us at the email address given and we can send you a word version to complete.
Please provide your response to the questionnaire by the 07/10/2026
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 36 days3 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 109 days15 Feb 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Sept 2026, 10:22 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender