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Published 8 Oct 2026, 10:57 BST

Official UK procurement notice

WCC Heat Networks Software

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Westminster City Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy (09)Software Packages & ERP (48)Architecture & Engineering (71)
+1 moreIT Services & Software (72)
 Delivery: London (UKI)
Planned pipeline value£300,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 28 Oct 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 3 Jan 2029 · up to 3 Feb 2030 with extensions · starts 4 Jan 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The purpose of this market engagement is to seek feedback from the Provider market in relation to the provision of a SAAS unified software platform for Heat Networks with focus on arrears such as end-to-end management, optimisation, regulatory compliance, development and support of the Westminster City Council (WCC) portfolio.

This is not a call for tenders or a pre-qualification exercise but is to gain an insight into the market for Heat Networks services and to understand the level of interest and capacity of the market in relation to this future opportunity.

Feedback received will be used to inform the commissioning strategy and to refine the Specification for this service. The intelligence provided will also inform internal decision making as to the affordability of the development and support service with the anticipation that this enables an informed budget for a formal sourcing exercise.

This pre-market engagement exercise is seeking intelligence from the Provider Market to inform a formal sourcing activity for the unified SAAS software solutuon for the WCC Heat Network portfolio..

CPV: Compliance software development services · Compliance software package · District heating · Facilities management software development services · Facilities management software development services and software development services suite · Facilities management software package · Facilities management software package and software package suite · Heating-system design services · Industrial control software package · Industry specific software development services · Industry specific software package · Inventory management software package · +1 more

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 4 Jan 2027 – 3 Jan 2029 (2 yrs) · up to 3 Feb 2030 with extensions
Delivery: LondonEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
09323000 District heating09324000 Long-distance heating48100000 Industry specific software package48150000 Industrial control software package48170000 Compliance software package48420000 Facilities management software package and software package suite

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Westminster City Council buys Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221), and who usually turns up

Westminster City Council’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: Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerWestminster City Council · division 72
The marketProgramming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) · Greater London
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 of 8 known-size awards · market: CPV 7221 · Greater London, n=79
63%38%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 2 known-location awards · market: CPV 7221 · Greater London, n=58
1 of 250%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7221 · Greater London, n=7
—101 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 101 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 9 of 10 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7221 · Greater London, n=118
90%64%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer80 lots with bid counts · all categories
26% had one bid
The market8 lots with bid counts · CPV 7221 · Greater London
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid26% / 0%
Buyer: 21 of 80 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
2–334% / 25%
Buyer: 27 of 80 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
4–633% / 25%
Buyer: 26 of 80 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
7+8% / 50%
Buyer: 6 of 80 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 8 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer70 lots with estimate and award · all categories
41% below estimate
The market6 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7221 · Greater London
50% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate41% / 50%
Buyer: 29 of 70 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%47% / 50%
Buyer: 33 of 70 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate11% / 0%
Buyer: 8 of 70 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 0 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 722124 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£300k
Expected competition
i

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 102 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet8% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 102 similar lots
1 bid8%
8 of 102 similar past lots received 1 bid (8%).
2–331%
32 of 102 similar past lots received 2–3 (31%).
4–631%
32 of 102 similar past lots received 4–6 (31%).
7+29%
30 of 102 similar past lots received 7+ (29%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £300k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
8 Oct 2026, 10:57 BST
Last source update
8 Oct 2026, 10:57 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095074
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Compliance software development servicesCompliance software packageDistrict heatingFacilities management software development servicesFacilities management software development services and software development services suiteFacilities management software packageFacilities management software package and software package suiteHeating-system design servicesIndustrial control software packageIndustry specific software development services
+3 moreIndustry specific software packageInventory management software package
Delivery area
London (UKI)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078375 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

8 Oct 2026 → 4 Jan 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published18 days ago
    8 Oct 2026, 10:57 BST
  2. Market engagement7 days ago
    19 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST

    Westminster City Council is looking to procure services for the provision of a unified SAAS software platform covering the full lifecycle of heat network operation.

    A Request For Information (RFI) is available to complete for interested organisations. To take part in the market engagement exercise, interested organisations should complete the RFI document which is available on the councils e-procurement tool ("Jaggaer"), reference

    SQ_30230 - PRJ_31300 - WCC Heat Networks Metering and Billing Solution, and the link to Jaggaer can be found here:

    wcc.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/6203552201A116D77559 ↗.

    Please copy and paste onto your browser.

    Further information can be found on the council’s website here:

    www.westminster.gov.uk/about-council/procur… ↗.

    This questionnaire will not form part of the formal procurement process.

    All responses are to be submitted via Jaggaer (online procurement portal ref: SQ_30230 - PRJ_31300 - WCC Heat Networks Metering and Billing Solution, no later than 17:00 hrs (GMT)) on Monday 19th October 2026. The deadline for submitting clarification questions will be at 17:00hrs on Friday, 16th October 2026.

    Our expectation is that a procurement will follow on conclusion of the market engagement exercise.

    It is to be noted that a UK3 - Planned Procurement Notice relating to the above has also been issued.

    Once registered, visit this link to find out more and complete a short questionnaire:

    wcc.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/6203552201A116D77559 ↗

  3. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  4. Tender notice expectedin 40h
    28 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 68 days
    4 Jan 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    8 Oct 2026, 10:57 BST
    UK2

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

Westminster City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJVD-6261-BPPJ 64 Victoria Street, London, London, SW1E 6QPContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure