Official UK procurement notice
Development of hydrogen enabling standards, competence frameworks and training specifications
Authority: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) intends to appoint a consortium led by Energy & Utility Skills (EUS) in collaboration with the Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM) to develop a suite of hydrogen gas enabling standards and associated competence frameworks and training specifications for use in domestic and non-domestic / light commercial hydrogen gas installations.
CPV: Gas appliances · Gas pressure equipment · Hydrogen · Professional services for the gas industry · Services related to the oil and gas industry
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1BEIS requires the EUS-led consortium to develop a suite of hydrogen gas enabling…
BEIS requires the EUS-led consortium to develop a suite of hydrogen gas enabling standards and associated competence frameworks and training specifications for use in domestic and non-domestic / light commercial hydrogen gas installations. IGEM will provide the technical support to assess hydrogen research and evidence gaps to update the IGEM Hydrogen Reference Standard (IGEM/H/1), and create Hydrogen Enabling Standards for domestic (IGEM/H/2) and non-domestic (IGEM/H/3) scenarios. EUS will develop a Hydrogen Competence Framework and Training Specification aligned to the Enabling Standards developed by IGEM.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 23 Aug 2021, 16:15 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Aug 2021, 16:15 BST
- Authority reference
TRN: 5153/06/2021- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-020689- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Why no open competition
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons
- Published justification
The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations (GS(I&U)R 1998) require all operatives working with all gases listed under the Gas Act 1986 (except those working in factories and with hydrogen in a non-domestic settings) to be Gas Safe registered.
Energy & Utility Skills (EUS), is the only Gas Standard Setting Body (SSB), an established structure in the gas industry that delivers the Matters of Gas Safety criteria and sets the competence and training requirements for engineer registration with Gas Safe Register. They are the Sector Skills Council responsible for National Occupational Standards (NOS), qualifications and apprenticeship frameworks for gas (upstream and downstream), power, waste and water industries. As the only organisation appointed by Gas Safe, they are the only organisation able to complete the competence framework and training specifications.
The Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers (IGEM), as the professional gas engineering body will create a hydrogen domestic/light commercial enabling standard and a non-domestic equivalent standard. IGEM is recognised as a Gas Engineering professional body, licensed by Royal Academy of Engineering and no other body can update the Hydrogen Reference Standard and codify domestic and non-domestic Hydrogen Enabling standards.
No other economic operator can provide the service of setting standards in this area, with the specific property of universally recognised and accessible record of an approach that represents good business practice.
Publisher note: To view this notice, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=620645922 GO Reference: GO-2021823-PRO-18783130
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy & Utility SkillsSME, The Institution of Gas Engineers and ManagersSMEjoint award | £746,262 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 020689-2021-1 · Energy & Utility SkillsSME, The Institution of Gas Engineers and ManagersSME
- Signed
- 20 Aug 2021
- Value
- £746,262
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)Review body
Bidders & participating suppliers
2 commercial parties on the notice- Energy & Utility Skills GroupAwarded supplier
- The Institution of Gas Engineers and ManagersAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.