Notice Information
Notice Title
12607455 - FIDDO - Fuels Information and Data for Defence Organisations
Notice Description
The Operational Energy Authority's Defence Support Team manage the Bulk Fuels Contracts for the provision of Bulk Marine, Aviation, and Road fuel worldwide, for all Front Line Commands. The Authority has an enduring requirement to provide a capability for users across Defence to obtain up-to-date international fuels market information, monitor prices of fuels purchased under extant and future Contracts and for forward forecasting and budgeting. 712607455 - FIDDO - Fuels Information and Data for Defence Organisations - Contract Award Notice- Following on from conclusion and expiry of VTN published 13 March 2025 via Find a Tender Service (FTS)
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Operational Energy Authority's Defence Support Team manage the Bulk Fuels Contracts for the provision of Bulk Marine, Aviation, and Road fuel worldwide, for all Front Line Commands. The Authority has an enduring requirement to provide a capability for users across Defence to obtain up-to-date international fuels market information, monitor prices of fuels purchased under extant and future Contracts and for forward forecasting and budgeting.
Procurement Information
The Operational Energy Authority (OEA), part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), following a publication of a VTN, is placing a 'Fuels Information and Data for Defence Organisations (FIDDO)' contract with S&P Global Inc. (S&P) for renewal of the MoD's Platts Market Data user licence. Platts Market Data provides international commodity market pricing data, against which all OEA managed fuels contracts are benchmarked. The contract will provide a five (5) year Platts Market Data user licence, and have an estimated value of PS4,500,000 (inclusive of VAT). In accordance with the provisions of The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 SI No. 2020/1319, this procurement falls to be regulated under the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) as amended (in particular by SI 2020/1319). Prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union is no longer appropriate. It is considered that the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the UK e-notification service (as required by the relevant legislation) is lawful in accordance with regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 for technical reasons. Platts Market Data is the only data source able to provide the full spectrum of data for all fuel types across all required locations and is crucial to the pricing of future contracts, variation of price elements in extant contracts and to the continuity of supply of fuel to Front-Line Commands. The data is proprietary to S&P and its licences are non-transferable between users. No other economic operator is able to meet this requirement.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04ece3
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/011847-2025
- 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
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
09 - Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
09100000 - Fuels
72300000 - Data services
72313000 - Data capture services
72319000 - Data supply services
72322000 - Data management services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £7,097,488 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 28 Mar 202511 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 13 Mar 202511 months 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
- MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- aspet.mkrtchyan100@mod.gov.uk, ukstratcom-defsp-oeacomrclfuel@mod.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BRISTOL
- Postcode
- N/A
- Post Town
- Bristol
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLK South West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLK5 West of England
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLK52 Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Electoral Ward
- Stoke Park & Cheswick
- Westminster Constituency
- Filton and Bradley Stoke
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.
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