01 Procurement
Tender overview
- Buyer
- Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO
- Status
- Complete
- Procurement method
- Open procedure
- Category
- services
- CPV classification
- Not supplied
- Tender period
- Not supplied — 14 November 2025
Description
A framework agreement covering Half Hourly Electricity Meter Operator Services, data collection and data aggregation services. The framework has been tailored to help customers achieve compliance with the requirements of the upcoming Market-wide Half-Hourly Settlement (MHHS) and is anticipated to be a multi-supplier framework. Tenderers were required to confirm and evidence their compliance with key industry standards and memberships as a condition for their tender to be evaluated. Tenderers were required to install meters and offer data collection/data aggregation (DC/DA) services throughout England. While not mandatory, it is preferable for suppliers to also offer coverage in Scotland and Wales. For any additional details please also refer to the ESPO website as follows: https://www.espo.org/utility-metering-data-services-512-25.html Note: Overall framework award was concluded on 10/02/2026, with this notice being published to follow on from this.
This page represents one OCDS contracting process. Notices can be revised over time. Values may be estimates, award values or contract values and should be read with their displayed stage and date.
02 Awards and contracts
Published award records
512_25 Utility Metering and Data Services
- Awarded
- 11 December 2025
- Award value
- Not supplied
- Suppliers
- 3
- Signed contract
- 10 February 2026
03 Organisations
Buyers, suppliers and other parties
Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO
Barnsdale Way, Grove Park, Enderby, Leicester, UKF22, LE19 1ES, United Kingdom
GB-PPON PYDD-1122-TCVNNPOWER COMMERCIAL GAS LIMITED
Westwood Way, Westwood Business Park, Coventry, UKG33, CV4 8LG, United Kingdom
Companies House 03768856 →SMS ENERGY SERVICES LIMITED
Prennau House Copse Walk, Cardiff Gate Business Park, Pontprennau, Cardiff, UKL22, CF23 8XH, United Kingdom
Companies House 03197379 →STARK SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL LTD.
Sentinel House, 10-12 Massetts Road, Horley, UKJ26, RH6 7DE, United Kingdom
Companies House 02911704 →Companies House links appear only for explicit GB-COH identifiers. BritDB does not create company links from a similar name or address.
04 Provenance
Source for this process
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