Contract award · 13 Jun 2013

Heat Supply Agreement relating to South East London Combined Heat and Power District Heating Network

Southwark Council awarded “Heat Supply Agreement relating to South East…” to Veolia ES Southwark Limited for £268m. Awarded without open competition.

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Value £268m

Awarded without open competition

Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.

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Key facts

Buyer
Southwark Council · Regional or local authority
Value
£267,900,000
Procedure
Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
Sector
Construction work · General construction work for pipelines (CPV 45231100)
Region
London
Timeline
  1. Contract date13 Jun 2013
  2. Published15 Jan 2026Published 4599 days after the contract date

Description

District Heating extension of SELCHP facility as set out in this notice. Southwark Council (Council) and Veolia ES Southwark Limited (Veolia) entered into a PFI Project Agreement (Project Agreement) on 11 February 2008 for integrated waste management services for an initial term of [25] years . The procurement of the Project Agreement was conducted under the Public Services Contracts Regulations 1993 with a total value of 665,000,000.00 GBP. In 2013, the Council entered into a separate heat supply agreement (HSA1) with Veolia for heat supply services by means of a district heating network (Heat Network) to take waste heat from South East London Combined Heat and Power (SELCHP) to certain Council premises. The services in HSA1 were not included in the Project Agreement. HSA1 was entered into pursuant to the exemption set out in Regulation 14(1)(d)(i) of the (now repealed) Public Contracts Regulations 2006. This exemption allowed the Council to directly procure Veolia for the provision …

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