Pre-tender

Energy Loans and Grants Administration

Details

Value
£66,000,000
Topic
Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
Published
23 July 2026

Tender description

The Scottish Government is seeking a service provider to undertake the financial administration and management of a number of its heat and energy efficiency loans and grants schemes Lot 1: The Scottish Government is seeking a service provider to undertake the financial administration and management of a number of its heat and energy efficiency loan and grant schemes from April 2028. The service provider will assume the management and administration a portfolio of grant and loan schemes which currently includes 4 schemes open to new applications and a number of closed schemes with an outstanding loan book to be repaid the service provider will have to deliver the following across those individual schemes: - Application processing and decision making, in line with terms and conditions set - Administration of loan and grant payments - Debt recovery - Records management - Liaison with advice partners to maintain an effective and efficient customer journey. At the time of publication of the PIN the contract will be for 48 months with 2 x 12 months optional extensions to be invoked at Scottish Ministers discretion. However, this may be subject to change at the time of issuing the contract notice. This is a demand led service and the value is calculated on maximum potential volumes of grant and loans through put, but not guaranteed.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published23 July 2026
    Current notice

About the buyer

The Scottish Government is a devolved central government department that buys through its Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate. Regulated procurements across the Scottish public sector are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland, the national portal set up in 2008. Bids are usually submitted through PCS-Tender, the national eTendering system it funds. The directorate also runs frameworks covering construction, corporate services, ICT, professional services, utilities and HR. Many of these frameworks are open to the wider Scottish public sector as well as central government. The Supplier Development Programme offers free tender training to SMEs and third sector organisations.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Scottish Government's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and research and development.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 66172000 · Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
  • 66190000 · Loan brokerage services
  • 71314300 · Energy-efficiency consultancy services
  • 79940000 · Collection agency services

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