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Published 7 Nov 2022, 18:10 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of Marketing Campaign Services for Vulnerability and Carbon Monoxide Allowance (VCMA)

Official notice

Authority: CADENT GAS LIMITED (Public body)·Consortium: 5 public authorities

ServicesNegotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Published estimate£1,000,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 7 Dec 2022

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Cadent, SGN, NGN and WWU exist to keep the energy flowing:

Cadent are the UK's largest GDN, operating four of the eight regional distribution networks and are responsible for transporting gas to 11 million homes and businesses connected through 82,000 miles of pipeline. Their footprint covers four regions: East of England, North London, North West, and West Midlands.

SGN operate the gas distribution network for the South of England & Scotland and are responsible for transporting energy to 6 million homes and businesses across the region.

NGN operate the gas distribution network for the North East of England, Northern Cumbria and much of Yorkshire and are responsible for transporting energy to 2.7 million homes and businesses across the region.

WWU operate the gas distribution network for the Wales and South West of England and are responsible for transporting energy to 7.5 million customers.

All GDNs are proud to be at the heart of heat and work closely with communities to keep them safe, warm, and connected. We also recognise that those customers who find themselves living in vulnerable situations can be more affected by GDN's action or inaction than other customers.

For this reason, and as well as being mandated by Ofgem via a price control framework, GDNs strive to ensure that the services that they offer support both customers living in vulnerable situations and customers at risk of exposure to the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO).

CPV: Advertising and marketing services · Marketing services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Industry regulator Ofgem's latest set of objectives between 2021 - 2026 encourages gas…Published value£1,000,000

Industry regulator Ofgem's latest set of objectives between 2021 - 2026 encourages gas distribution networks (GDNs) to undertake collaborative work under Vulnerability and Carbon Monoxide Allowance (VCMA) to support customers living in vulnerable situations.

As such, Cadent, SGN, Northern Gas Networks (NGN) and Wales & West utilities (WWU) are operating a collaborative tender to select a single marketing agency to run six marketing campaigns as part of VCMA until the end of the current price control period.

The services that Cadent, SGN, NGN and WWU are looking to procure through this tender event will be funded via a portion of the networks' VCMA. Therefore, it is important that any successful service provider is able to deliver a service within the confines of the VCMA regulation. More information on Ofgem's VCMA governance can be found by visiting the publications and updates section of Ofgem's website.

Summer and Winter campaigns will be needed as part of this initiative each with separate messaging. Additional information: Cadent Gas Limited is leading the administrative work of this procurement for all contracting entities therefore please email Vasilis.Mastorakis@cadentgas.com to formally express interest and get access to the PQQ documents.

Delivery: UK
Variant bids: allowed

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Closed
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
7 Nov 2022, 18:10 GMT
Last source update
7 Nov 2022, 18:10 GMT
FTS notice number
2022/S 000-031488
Classification (CPV)
Advertising and marketing servicesMarketing services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-037fdc Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified
Language: EN
Submission deadline
7 Dec 2022
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Participation fee
document
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

7 Nov 2022 → 7 Dec 2022 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    7 Nov 2022, 18:10 GMT
  2. Submission deadline
    7 Dec 2022

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

5 public bodies on the notice

CADENT GAS LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic bodyProduction, transport and distribution of gas and heat GB-COH: 10080864 Pilot Way, Ansty Park,Coventry, COVENTRY, UK, CV7 9JUContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Consortium members and other public bodies

Process and specification contact points (1)
  • Vasilis.Mastorakis@cadentgas.comProcess contact point Coventry, UKContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.