National Fuels 3

This agreement gives you access to liquid fuels, heating oil and automotive fuels to all public sector customers. Also includes all associated services connected to using fuels such as biomass, tank maintenance and energy bureau services.

Description

Products and services under this agreement will be available to all UK public sector organisations, including central government departments and their agencies, the wider public sector and charities.

Products you can buy under this agreement include:

  • heating oil (kerosene)
  • transport fuel (diesel and petrol)
  • liquid petroleum gas (LPG) in cylinders
  • liquified natural gas (LNG)
  • biomass

You will also be able to buy products and services associated with using liquid fuels, such as:

  • fuel tank replacement
  • fuel tank maintenance
  • fuel testing

Suppliers will provide fuel by regional postcodes. These will consist of 14 different post-coded regions, lots 1A to 1N.

Lot 1O is our national lot for liquid fuels. This gives customers access to a single supplier contract on a national structure.

The agreement will run for 4 years. There will be no option to extend past this.

You will be able to connect with a supplier at any time during this agreement, and run a contract for up to 4 years from when supply starts.

Benefits

  • regional or national supply
  • weekly pricing: CCS publish prices on the National Fuels 3 webpage weekly
  • contract management to make sure service levels and performance indicators are met
  • collection, analysis and reporting of energy data to give insights and recommendations for energy efficiency improvements and cost savings
  • availability of extra services such as, telemetry and supplier managed replenishment
  • a dedicated customer service team
  • choice of billing format including consolidated billing, electronic billing and paper billing
    • customers will also be able to access bill validation under lot 5

Carbon Reduction

All suppliers for this agreement have committed to comply with the Procurement Policy Note 06/21: 'Taking account of Carbon Reduction Plans in the procurement of major government contracts' as required. If a supplier is required to publish a carbon reduction plan, you can find it on their individual supplier details page.

Products and suppliers

There are 16 suppliers on this agreement

Lot 1A: Liquid Fuel - Scotland North

Expires:

5 suppliers

Lot 1B: Liquid Fuel - Scotland West

Expires:

5 suppliers

Lot 1C: Liquid Fuel - Scotland Central

Expires:

5 suppliers

Lot 1D: Liquid Fuel - Scotland South

Expires:

5 suppliers

Lot 1E: Liquid Fuel - England North West

Expires:

7 suppliers

Lot 1F: Liquid Fuel - England North East

Expires:

6 suppliers

Lot 1G: Liquid Fuel - England Midlands

Expires:

8 suppliers

Lot 1H: Liquid Fuel - England East Anglia

Expires:

7 suppliers

Lot 1I: Liquid Fuel - England London & South East

Expires:

7 suppliers

Lot 1J: Liquid Fuel - England South

Expires:

7 suppliers

Lot 1K: Liquid Fuel - England South West

Expires:

6 suppliers

Lot 1L: Liquid Fuel - South Wales

Expires:

6 suppliers

Lot 1M: Liquid Fuel - North Wales

Expires:

7 suppliers

Lot 1N: Liquid Fuel - Northern Ireland

Expires:

4 suppliers

Lot 1O: Liquid Fuel - National Lot

Expires:

5 suppliers

Lot 2: LPG - National

Expires:

1 suppliers

Lot 3: Biomass - National

Expires:

2 suppliers

Lot 4: Associated Services - National

Expires:

5 suppliers

Lot 5: Bureau Services - National

Expires:

1 suppliers

How to buy

Lot Overview:

Lot 1: Liquid Fuels (14 regional lots 1A – 1N and the National Lot, 1O)

Lot 2: LPG

Lot 3: Biomass Fuels

Lot 4: Associated Services

Lot 5: Bureau Services

How to buy: 

The only way to buy from this agreement is to run a further competition.

Lots 1, 2 and 3

You can run your own further competition, or you can choose to join the CCS managed quarterly further competition.

Throughout your call-off contract, the site addition process allows you to add extra sites directly with your supplier at your own convenience.

Before running a further competition, you will need to email our team. In your email you should clearly outline what your intentions are.

To run a further competition, you will need to:

  • put together your statement of needs
  • select the goods and services you need on the template call-off terms
  • make sure the goods and services you select do not conflict with what this agreement provides (you cannot add or make changes to the products and services under this agreement)
  • select all suppliers from the relevant lot and invite them to tender
  • make sure the tenders applying meet the appropriate criteria set out in your Invitation to Tender (such as, fuel type, region and volumes)
  • award a call-off agreement by sending a completed order form and call-off agreement to the successful supplier (you can find these forms in the document section below)
  • receive signed copy of the call-off agreement from the supplier
  • sign the call-off agreement and issue a notice to the supplier
  • email our team and let us know the outcome

Access for lot 4 (further competition only)

Before running a further competition, you will need to email our team. In your email you should clearly outline what your intentions are.

To run a further competition, you will need to:

  • put together your statement of needs
  • detail the goods and services you need using call-off schedule 20 (specification)
  • make sure the goods and services you select do not conflict with what this agreement provides
  • select all suppliers from the relevant lot and invite them to tender
  • make sure the tenders applying meet the appropriate criteria set out in your Invitation to Tender (such as, service type, specification and delivery region)
  • award a call-off agreement by sending a completed order form and call-off agreement to the successful supplier (you can find these forms in the document section below)
  • receive signed copy of the call-off agreement from the supplier
  • sign the call-off agreement and issue a notice to the supplier
  • email our team and let us know the outcome

We may be able to run a further competition on your behalf. Contact the team for further information.

Access for lot 5 (Direct Award only)

Customers can run a direct award through this single supplier lot, to do this, they must:

  • develop a clear statement of requirements
  • detail the services you need as set out in Framework Schedule 1 (Specification) and Framework Schedule 2 (Framework Tender)
  • award a call-off agreement by sending a completed order form and call-off agreement to the successful supplier (you can find these forms in the document section below)
  • for further guidance refer to the buyers guide.

Customers will need to review or populate:

  • call-off schedules (determine which schedules are relevant to the contract and amend)
  • joint schedules (review)
  • framework schedule 6: order form template

This service is for gas and electricity only, for more information on lot 5 please contact info@crowncommercial.gov.uk and quote “RM6305 lot 5” in the email.

Pricing:

  • please complete the customer access agreement to obtain pricing information
  • this form is not a commitment to the lot or any services listed
  • it is for your reference to be able to make an informed decision

Documents