PLUS DANE HOUSING GROUP LIMITED
Soft Market Test for Heat Network Consultancy
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Please note that this is not a call for competition.
Soft Market Test (SMT) Plus Dane is seeking early feedback from the market on how best to package and scope a potential future procurement opportunity.
This is an exploratory stage, prior to any formal procurement process.
The SMT aims to: • Understand how providers might deliver the proposed service. • Gauge market interest. • Inform Plus Dane's options appraisal and recommendations.
Participation is voluntary and will not affect future opportunities.
Responding does not guarantee an invitation to tender or that Plus Dane will proceed with procurement.
Any future procurement will comply with the Procurement Act 2023.
Confidentiality Each Party shall: a) treat the other Party's confidential Information as confidential and safeguard it; accordingly, and b) not disclose the other Party's Confidential Information to any other person without the owner's prior written consent.
Introduction & Background We are a housing association with a strong social purpose.
We employ almost 600 people and have more than 13,500 homes across Merseyside and Cheshire.
We are an ambitious organisation striving to provide the very best possible services to over 30,000 customers who live in our homes.
We are passionate about our social purpose, and the positive impact that we can have on the communities our customers live in.
Our Requirements Our heat network portfolio consists of 29 heat networks, with 2 district heat networks and 27 communal heat networks.
Plus Dane operate both unmetered and metered heat networks.
The heat network industry will soon be fully regulated by Ofgem, having a significant impact on housing providers across the UK.
To support with our journey to compliance for both existing and incoming Ofgem regulations, we require: 1.
Regulation Readiness Review which will analyse the current situation at Plus Dane regarding compliance with both existing and incoming heat network regulations, and provide an action plan to becoming compliant.
2.
A full suite of procurement services, including specifications, for a metering & billing contract.
This must be provided by an impartial and independent organisation who are not tied to any manufacturer or service provider.
If you are able to provide this, please provide your organisation's details to the email address provided by 05/01/26.
What the notice asks for
Understand how providers might deliver the proposed
Understand how providers might deliver the proposed service.
Any future procurement will comply with
Any future procurement will comply with the Procurement Act 2023.
We are an ambitious organisation striving
We are an ambitious organisation striving to provide the very best possible services to over 30,000 customers who live in our homes.
To support with our journey to compliance
To support with our journey to compliance for both existing and incoming Ofgem regulations, we require:.
Regulation Readiness Review which will analyse
Regulation Readiness Review which will analyse the current situation at Plus Dane regarding compliance with both existing and incoming heat network regulations, and provide an action plan to becoming compliant.
Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.
What this notice demands of you
1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.
The heat network industry will soon be fully regulated by Ofgem, having a significant impact on housing providers across the UK.
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.
Make the case to bid
Reveal who to approach at PLUS DANE HOUSING GROUP LIMITED, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.
Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.
The full intelligence dossier
Our agent reads PLUS DANE HOUSING GROUP LIMITED’s accounts, hunts live signals, finds the people who decide — and hands you a bid strategy plus a go-to-market influence plan, including what your team should post this week. You approve every paid step.
Five included while we’re in beta, and the agent asks before it spends on any paid step.
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- 1e6615e4-457e-43a9-8b44-eb964d232801
- Stage
- preprocurement · Closed
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Buyer ref
- PDT-25-75
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