Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement – CfD Settlement Services Platform
Authority: Low Carbon Contracts Company Ltd (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a Preliminary Market Engagement Notice to inform and seek engagement with suppliers for a potential future CfD settlement service. The opportunity may include, but is not limited to, capabilities for data collection and validation, settlement calculations, reconciliation, billing, payment processing, reporting, auditability, system integration and associated service management.
LCCC is exploring the market and supplier capability as part of its mid-term planning for future settlement service arrangements, in the context of increasing CfD portfolio scale, growing data and transaction volumes, and the need for secure, efficient and well-controlled settlement operations. Participation in this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice gives suppliers early visibility of the potential opportunity and the chance to provide insight on available solutions, delivery models and market capability.
The feedback received will help LCCC understand the options, functionality, risks and innovations currently available in the market. This will inform the development of any future procurement strategy and scope of requirements, without committing LCCC or a supplier to a fixed solution, delivery model or subsequent procurement yet.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at:
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CPV: System quality assurance assessment and review services · Systems and technical consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Low Carbon Contracts Company Ltd buys Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222), and who usually turns up
Low Carbon Contracts Company Ltd’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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 95 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid20% / 0%
2–360% / 39%
4–620% / 44%
7+0% / 17%
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 estimate38%
Within ±2%44%
Above estimate19%
Assess each lot i
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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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.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 7222No real estimate
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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 18 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–339%
4–644%
7+17%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
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
- 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
- 3 Jul 2026, 16:08 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Jul 2026, 16:08 BST
- Authority reference
CRN2026-014- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-062959- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c3ccFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 Jul 2026 → 30 Aug 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published116 days ago3 Jul 2026, 16:08 BST
- Market engagement73 days ago14 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
Purpose of engagement: LCCC is undertaking this Preliminary Market Engagement to understand the market and supplier capacity, capability and appetite for supporting future CfD settlement services. The engagement will help test the feasibility of potential requirements, explore available delivery models and technologies, identify key risks and opportunities for innovation, and gather supplier feedback to inform LCCC’s procurement strategy and any future scope of requirements. Participation will also give suppliers early visibility of the potential opportunity and a chance to help shape a realistic, proportionate and market-informed approach.
Engagement format: Questionnaire response / one-to-one meetings / workshops
Contact route: Suppliers wishing to participate in this Preliminary Market Engagement exercise are required to register their interest on the Delta e-Sourcing Portal lccc.delta-esourcing.com ↗ which will be used to manage this PME and to communicate with all participants. Registration and completion/submission of the completed questionnaire must be by no later than 12 noon on the 14th August 2026. Please note all future communications regarding this Preliminary Market Engagement will be via the portal.
Further details relating to teh requirements will be available with the questionnaire.
- Contract starts58 days ago30 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Jul 2026, 16:08 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