Signal · Supply Chain & Logistics

Contract award: Cheshire East Council - Fully Managed Energy Supply Service (Gas and Electric) (GBP 50,500,000)

UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API Authoritative source Published 9th October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Find a Tender by Cheshire East Council. Procurement: Fully Managed Energy Supply Service (Gas and Electric). Description: The Council seeks to make provision for its electricity and gas requirements from 1st April 2027 for a period of three years with the option to extend for 2 x 12 months. The Council intends to procure a fully managed service whereby the Managed Service Provider (MSP) will purchase energy for and on behalf of the Council via an established framework or dynamic purchasing system that is compliant wi Category: services. Value: GBP 50,500,000 (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): West Mercia Energy.

Publication: UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API · Government/Regulator
Published: 9th October 2026
Original report: find-tender.service.gov.uk

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Category: Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography: United Kingdom
Organisations: None identified
Collected: 9th October 2026 · 09:04

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 1 · Low

Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact
Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity

Possibly the same underlying story as Contract award: BASINGSTOKE & DEANE BOROUGH COUNCIL - Managed Service for Temporary Agency Resources (GBP 1,500,000) — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.

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Initial assessment ⓘMore about Initial Signal AssessmentProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.