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ID 6727437 - DoF - Collaborative Arrangement for Provision of Vehicle Fuel and Electric Charging Card Services

EnergyCPV 09100000

Value£37,000,000

Deadline19 Oct 2026

Published22 Sept 2026

RegionNationwide

£37,000,000 — stated in the notice

Timeline

Published 22 Sept 202625 days leftCloses 19 Oct 2026

Who to contact

SSDAdmin.CPD@finance-ni.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

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Tenders must be submitted electronically via the relevant Call for Tender (CfT) opportunity on eTendersNI, website details immediately below. Paper submissions will not be accepted or considered and will be rejected by the Contracting Authority / Buyer. The tender documents are available with unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: URL https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps

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Contract value in context

£37.0mtotal contract value

median £600k

this tender£0£40.0m

This is a large award for Petroleum, Fuel & Energy Products — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 3,437 valued Petroleum, Fuel & Energy Products tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Department of Finance has published 10 Petroleum, Fuel & Energy Products notices, about every 4 months. On that rhythm the next one is expected around January 2027.

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The brief

The Department of Finance, Construction and Procurement Delivery (CPD) is seeking to appoint a Supplier for the provision of vehicle Fuel Cards and associated services as well as electric vehicle Charge Cards.

This is a collaborative arrangement, and the details of all Service Recipients can be found at Schedule 17.

Additional Service Recipients, being public sector bodies may be added to this Schedule at any point during the lifetime of this Contract.

This Contract will run for an initial period of 5 years, and an additional period to allow for implementation (6 months for Lot 1 and 3 months for Lot 2).

There will be two optional extension periods of up to two years each.

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45–80 daysof bid-team effort

£30.8k–£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Compressed window — start the same week

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Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

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