Official UK procurement notice
District Heating Network Performance, Operational Monitoring and Planned Maintenance Services
Authority: Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDistrict Heating Network Performance, Operational Monitoring and Planned Maintenance Services
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is undertaking pre-market engagement in advance of a planned procurement for the provision of Performance, Operational Monitoring and Planned Preventative Maintenance Services for the Trust's District Heating Networks and LTHW dual fuel boilers for the Basildon and Broomfield Hospital sites; with the potential for additional services at the Southend site.
The Trust has recently invested in significant decarbonisation infrastructure across its hospital estate, including district heating networks, energy centres, plate heat exchanger installations, thermal stores, pumps, boilers and specialist control systems. The Trust is seeking to engage with suitably qualified maintenance providers to better understand market capability, innovation opportunities and contract delivery models prior to commencing a formal procurement process.
Indicative Scope
The successful contractor may be responsible for:
- Planned preventative maintenance (PPM)
- Operational monitoring and performance management
- Remote monitoring and alarm management
- 24/7 reactive maintenance and emergency call-outs
- BMS and controls maintenance
- Water treatment monitoring and management
- Boiler and heating plant maintenance
- Pressurisation systems
- Pumps and distribution networks
- Plate heat exchangers
- Thermal stores
- Heat metering systems
- Fuel oil infrastructure
- Lifecycle planning and asset management
- Energy performance optimisation and reporting
- Coordination with specialist subcontractors and CHP maintenance providers where required.
Estate
The contract is expected to cover:
Basildon Hospital
- District Heating Energy Centre
- Multiple remote plantrooms
- CHP-supported district heating system
- Multiple heating and domestic hot water PHE installations.
Broomfield Hospital
- District Heating Energy Centre
- Multiple remote plantrooms
- CHP-supported district heating system
- Contingency remote boilers
- Heating and hot water PHE installations.
Southend Hospital
- District Heating Energy Centre
- Multiple remote plantrooms
- CHP-supported district heating system
- Integrated and remote network boilers
- Heating and hot water PHE installations.
Objectives of Engagement
The Trust wishes to understand:
- Market appetite for the opportunity.
- Appropriate contract duration.
- Options for performance-based maintenance arrangements.
- Best practice approaches to remote monitoring and asset management.
- Appropriate KPIs and performance measures.
- Digital maintenance management solutions.
- Innovations that could improve system efficiency and operational resilience.
- Approaches to lifecycle planning and asset replacement forecasting.
- Mobilisation requirements and anticipated timescales.
Supplier Requirements
Interested suppliers should ideally demonstrate experience in:
- Large district heating networks.
- Acute healthcare environments.
- CHP and energy centre infrastructure.
- Building management systems.
- Water treatment and closed heating systems.
- PPM and reactive maintenance services.
- Energy performance optimisation.
Next Steps
Suppliers interested in participating in the engagement exercise are invited to register their interest. Further details regarding engagement sessions, site visits and questionnaires will be circulated in due course.
Please note this engagement exercise is for information gathering purposes only and does not constitute a call for competition.
CPV: Commissioning of heating installations · Heating engineering services for buildings · Operation of water supplies · Repair and maintenance services of boilers · Repair and maintenance services of central heating · Repair and maintenance services of electrical building installations · Repair and maintenance services of pumps
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust buys Repair and maintenance services of machinery (CPV 5053), and who usually turns up
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1 bid13% / 23%
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7+25% / 19%
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1 bid14%
2–323%
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About this data
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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
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 2 Oct 2026, 15:35 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 15:35 BST
- Authority reference
C475212- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-093469- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078001Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 Oct 2026 → 14 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published26 days ago2 Oct 2026, 15:35 BST
- Market engagement18 days ago9 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
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- Tender notice expected8 days ago19 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 77 days14 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Oct 2026, 15:35 BSTUK2
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- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender