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Northumberland County Council

NCC1545 Heat Network Consultancy

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71314300
Value£56k
Awarded6 Mar 2025
Published22 May 2025
RegionNorth East
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£56ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Engineering & Architecture band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Northumberland County Council (NCC) is seeking to appoint a single Contractor to provide commercial advice on the development of viable low carbon heat networks on key council buildings (anchor loads) in up to 8 towns across the county of Northumberland.

The successful contractor will be responsible for updating financial models for heat networks, providing commercial advice in relation to final governance arrangements for the heat networks, and developing a financial evaluation methodology.

Further commercial advice may be required to support a competitive dialogue process with private sector partners interested in developing heat networks in Northumberland.

Procured by utilising a mini-competition under the framework: ESPO Consultancy Services 664_21 Lot 2d General Finance

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The successful contractor will be responsible

The successful contractor will be responsible for updating financial models for heat networks, providing commercial advice in relation to final governance arrangements for the heat networks, and developing a financial evaluation methodology.

02

Further commercial advice may be required

Further commercial advice may be required to support a competitive dialogue process with private sector partners interested in developing heat networks in Northumberland.

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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.

ESPO / YPO / NEPOFrameworks & routes to market
Procured by utilising a mini-competition under the framework: ESPO Consultancy Services 664_21 Lot 2d General Finance

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