OpenStage · tender 851 days to close

LDC - Liquid Fuel

EnergyCPV 09100000

Value£4.0m

Deadline31 Dec 2028

Published25 Nov 2024

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 25 Nov 2024851 days leftCloses 31 Dec 2028

Who to contact

james.white@lewes-eastbourne.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£4.0mtotal contract value

median £600k

this tender£0£31.8m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Petroleum, Fuel & Energy Products band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 3,437 valued Petroleum, Fuel & Energy Products tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Lewes and Eastbourne Councils has published 14 notices across all categories, and 62% of its awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

Lewes District Council, Eastbourne Borough Council and any of their associated Local Authority Trading Companies (LATCs) including South East Environmental Services (SEESL), invites applications from suitably experienced organisations who wish to be considered for selection to gain a place on their Liquid Fuel Dynamic Purchasing System.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market

…tal Services (SEESL), invites applications from suitably experienced organisations who wish to be considered for selection to gain a place on their Liquid Fuel Dynamic Purchasing System.…

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

What it takes to bid this

25–40 daysof bid-team effort

£17.1k–£27.4kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £1m–£10m band — an estimate, not a quote.

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

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

Show at bidComparable references / case studies
Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
Show at bidSocial value commitments

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