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Colchester City Council

Utility Metering & Associated Services Framework

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000 38500000 38550000
Value£5.0m
Awarded13 Jul 2025
Published17 Jul 2025
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£5.0mtotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£5.4m

This is a large award for Laboratory & Precision Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Colchester City Council is creating a framework agreement for use by wider public sector for the provision of utility metering operation agreements, utility data collection services and utility data aggregation services.

This will be a multi-supplier framework, designed to make the incumbent meter operators compliant as well as give the option for new supplier through competition.

This opportunity to split in to two lots (bidders can apply for either or both): Lot1: Meter Operator - Energy and Water Lot 2: Data aggregator/ Data Collector - Energy and Water.

Axiom Utilities Ltd are acting on behalf of the council in administering this framework agreement.

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