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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Ofgem

Audit of the Data Communications Company (DCC)

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79200000 79210000
Value£360k
Awarded1 Jan 2025
Published28 May 2025
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£360ktotal 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 Data Communications Company (DCC) is the central communications body licensed to provide thecommunications, data transfer and management required to support smart metering.

DCC wasappointed by using an outsourced service model, to manage contracted smart metering serviceproviders.

As such, external costs compose the largest proportion of DCC's costs, and it is critical thatthese contracts are entered into, managed and closed out effectively and efficiently.

Each year, theAuthority scrutinises DCC's incurred and forecast costs through the annual Price Control process todetermine whether these costs are economic and efficient.

Alongside the cost assessment, DCC alsofaces financial incentives under the Operational Performance Regime (OPR)

Requirements

What the notice asks for

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The Data Communications Company (DCC) is

The Data Communications Company (DCC) is the central communications body licensed to provide thecommunications, data transfer and management required to support smart metering.

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OCID
6399af32-0044-4d7f-a201-4b8dabdf4c02
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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