Official UK procurement notice
Location based renewable energy - Blackburn Meadows
Authority: YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionYW require a supply of c.25GWh p/a of low Carbon 'Behind the Meter' electricity at its Blackburn Meadows waste water treatment works in Sheffield.
The supplier must deliver all of the following;
- Be capable of delivering 25GWh of power per year at a carbon intensity of not more than the UK average.
- Have a guaranteed up time in excess of 90% across a contract year;
- Be available to supply power within 12-18 months.
- Provide an alternative 'firm' power supply to YW providing resilience to its existing DNO connections.
- Be capable of interfacing with YWs existing, and planned, CHP and solar generation on site.
The solution must be fully developed or in late stage development. For clarity this means the solution has planning and grid secured, has ratified Carbon intensity numbers and is registered with Ofgem to receive REGOs.
CPV: Electricity · Other sources of energy supplies and distribution · Solar energy
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
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- 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
- 27 Jan 2026, 16:16 GMT
- Last source update
- 22 Sept 2026, 11:13 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-089512- Latest notice
- Transparency notice (UK5)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-061010Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
Yorkshire Water conducted a market engagement exercise, for which a Market Engagement Notice 2026/S 000-007262 dated 27 January 2026 was published, to which a number of companies submitted responses.
This market engagement exercise was carried out to understand whether there were suppliers capable of delivering renewable private wire electricity to sites across the Yorkshire Water operational estate.
The market engagement demonstrated that there were a number of suppliers capable of meeting YWs requirements across its estate but only a single respondent capable of meeting YWs requirements at its Blackburn Meadows waste water treatment works in Sheffield.
As a result, a competitive tendering process would not generate genuine competition and a direct award is justified as a feasible route to delivering the required services withing the desired timeframes and to the required quality standards.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Jan 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published272 days ago27 Jan 2026, 16:16 GMT
- Market engagement209 days ago31 Mar 2026, 23:59 BST
If your company is within a feasible distance of a Yorkshire Water site and you have the infrastructure or are close to energising the required infrastructure please contact FMandEnergyCommercialTeam@yorkshirewater.co.uk for further detail. upon request we can provide a list of sites.
- Latest notice published35 days ago22 Sept 2026, 11:13 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 65 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
5 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Jan 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Jan 2026, 16:16 GMTUK2
- Transparency notice published22 Sept 2026, 11:13 BSTUK5
- Status changed to complete22 Sept 2026, 11:13 BST
- Procurement method changed22 Sept 2026, 11:13 BST
- Contract signature expected21 Oct 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| E.ON UK1 Jun 2027 – 31 May 2034 | £20,000,000 | — | Standstill |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- E.ON UK LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender