Notice Information
Notice Title
Non-Daily Metered Sampling Read Service Provision (NDMSP) 2023
Notice Description
Xoserve is a not-for-profit entity funded, governed and owned by the gas industry, which includes the gas transporters Cadent Gas Limited, Northern Gas Networks Limited and Wales & West Utilities. With effect from 1 April 2023, Xoserve Limited (Xoserve) will fulfil the NDMSP obligation on behalf of the three gas transporters named above. The detailed parameters of the NDMSP can be found under the Uniform Network Code (UNC) Transportation Principal Document (TPD) Section H 1.6 (NDM Sampling), which can be found at www.gasgovernance.co.uk. Compliance with the UNC is a regulatory obligation under the Utilities' gas transporter licence granted (or treated as granted) under the Gas Act 1986, section 7. The contract appoints an economic operator for Non-Daily Metered Sampling Read Service Provision (NDMSP) 2023 for three (3) years from 1 April 2023.
Lot Information
Lot 1
This procurement is to appoint a new economic operator for the Non-Daily Metered Sampling Read Service Provision (NDMSP) to ensure the continuity of the provision of daily read data from a defined sampling portfolio of Non-Daily Metered sites within the gas distribution networks operated by Cadent Gas Limited, Northern Gas Networks Limited and Wales & West Utilities, and to manage those portfolios to maintain the required coverage across each End User Category (EUC) Band and Local Distribution Zone (LDZ). The detailed parameters of the NDMSP can be found under the Uniform Network Code (UNC) Transportation Principal Document (TPD) Section H 1.6 (NDM Sampling), which can be found at www.gasgovernance.co.uk.
Procurement Information
On 30 August 2022, Xoserve (on behalf of the Utilities Cadent Gas Limited, Northern Gas Limited and Wales & West Utilities) launched a procurement for the new NDMSP contract under notice 2022/S 000-024117, using the negotiated procedure with prior call for competition. This procurement was based on information available prior to making the call for competition regarding the technology architecture requirements. During the procurement process, changes to these requirements meant that the basis on which the overall requirements had been drafted was no longer correct. The Utilities therefore reviewed the procurement and concluded that the change in circumstances would have affected bidders' decisions as to whether (or not) to participate in the procurement, and the preparation of their tenders. The Utilities therefore considered that the procurement would need to be re-started and issued a notice to discontinue the procurement on 13 February 2023 with reference 2023/S 000-004329. As noted previously, the Utilities have a legal and regulatory obligation to ensure that NDMSP will continue from 1 April 2023 after the existing contract expires on 31 March 2023. It is the Utilities' understanding, based on information received during the original procurement, that: (a) this deadline can only be achieved if the successful bidder can integrate with the existing technology architecture; and (b) this integration cannot be achieved in the required timescales, except by the named economic operator. The Utilities therefore consider that, for all relevant purposes, the works, supplies and services under the contract can be supplied only by the economic operator named, that competition is absent for technical reasons, and that there is no reasonable alternative or substitute. The Utilities therefore intend to award the contract to the named economic operator under the negotiated procedure without prior call for competition, under UCR, regulation 50(1)(c)(ii).
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-03b414
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009712-2023
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
72300000 - Data services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 3 Apr 20232 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 17 Mar 20232 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- XOSERVE LIMITED
- Contact Name
- Procurement Team
- Contact Email
- xoserve.commercial@xoserve.com
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- SOLIHULL
- Postcode
- B91 3DL
- Post Town
- Birmingham
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLG West Midlands (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLG3 West Midlands
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLG32 Solihull
- Delivery Location
- TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLH East (England), TLI London, TLK South West (England), TLL Wales
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- Local Authority
- Solihull
- Electoral Ward
- St Alphege
- Westminster Constituency
- Solihull West and Shirley
Further Information
Notice URLs
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