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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Department for Education

Energy bill validation and cost recovery services for Educational Institutions across England

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79900000
Value£300k
Awarded7 May 2024
Published29 Oct 2024
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£300ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Department for Education has appointed a supplier to deliver validation of utility bills (electricity and gas) which have been issued to schools in England and to carry out cost recovery services where errors are identified.

The contract will aim to ensure that all Education Settings across England have the opportunity to benefit from specialist contract compliance reviews, including the identification of erroneous payments and the potential recovery of funds.

This contract was awarded via the Crown Commercial Services' RM6226 framework under Lot 17.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Department for Education has appointed

The Department for Education has appointed a supplier to deliver validation of utility bills (electricity and gas) which have been issued to schools in England and to carry out cost recovery services where errors are identified.

02

The contract will aim to ensure

The contract will aim to ensure that all Education Settings across England have the opportunity to benefit from specialist contract compliance reviews, including the identification of erroneous payments and the potential recovery of funds.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
RM6226 framework under Lot 17.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
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Source
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