Official UK procurement notice
Electricity Supplier · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Lancaster City Council (Local council)
Sectors: Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy (09)Public utilities (65)Architecture & Engineering (71) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Awarded value£3,400,000published award · exc. VAT
Award in standstill 6 Oct 2026no call for competition
Award (standstill) to Octopus Energy Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council requires an integrated electricity arrangement incorporating:
- supply of electricity to the Council’s corporate estate;
- export of electricity generated from Council-owned renewable energy assets;
- P442 matching between the Council’s import and generation portfolios;
- optimisation of matching using additional eligible import and export volumes where Council generation and consumption do not coincide;
- transparent identification and allocation of the resulting matching benefits; and
- the capability to extend the arrangement to eligible domestic and commercial customers through a Community Power Club, with supply to those customers undertaken by a licensed electricity supplier.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- 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
- 29 Sept 2026, 14:48 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Oct 2026, 16:10 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-094413- Latest notice
- Contract award notice (UK6)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077cacFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
Market Engagement undertaken by officers has not identified another supplier capable of delivering these requirements as a single integrated end to end arrangement.
This satisfies the requirements of Schedule 5, paragraph 6 of the Procurement Act 2023, namely that due to an absence of competition for technical reasons only a particular supplier can supply the services required and that there are no reasonable alternatives.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
6 Oct 2026 → 15 Oct 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published20 days ago6 Oct 2026, 16:10 BST
- Standstill ends11 days ago15 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 29 Sept 2026- Transparency notice published29 Sept 2026, 14:48 BSTUK5
- Contract award notice published6 Oct 2026, 16:10 BSTUK6
- Contract signature expected16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastAwards 1
Awarded value £3,400,0001 award exc. VAT
| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Octopus Energy LimitedElectricity Supply1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2029 | £3,400,000 | 6 Oct 2026standstill to 15 Oct 2026 | Standstill |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Octopus Energy LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender