Official UK procurement notice
ECO4 Fraud and Error Assurance
Authority: DESNZ & DSIT Group Commercial
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis Contract Award Notice is to confirm that the Accelerated Open Procurement has concluded with the award of a contract to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
CPV: Fraud audit services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1DESNZ sought to procure a supplier to carry out a comprehensive review of fraud and…AwardedPublished value£495,000
DESNZ sought to procure a supplier to carry out a comprehensive review of fraud and error risks on the ECO4 scheme, and also assess the capability of current delivery systems for managing those risks. The department wants to better understand the extent to which the scheme is providing support to the correct households and properties to enable evidence-based future policy design and best practice in delivery management. The awarded supplier's responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Data and document analysis.
- Industry knowledge, specifically retrofit, low carbon heating and energy efficiency installation through the construction industry.
- Understanding in similar/comparable scheme/project delivery. Familiarity with government schemes and ideally energy supplier obligation schemes would be beneficial.
- Ability to conduct a low number of on-site audits of domestic properties and installation of funded measures (with national cover) to validate hypotheses around risks.
- Gathering and analysing relevant information, data, accounts, audits, project management artefacts and other relevant information sources.
- Business analysis (including understanding structure, policies and operations, identifying business need, determining solutions) and process modelling.
- Fraud management, analysis, detection and prevention.
- Working knowledge and experience of application of Counter Fraud Functional Standard (GovS 013) requirements.
- Interview design and analysis.
- Ability to recognise issues and their potential and ranked impact to make actionable recommendations both through regular and ad-hoc collaborative meetings and in final reporting with DESNZ
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (4)
- Fraud Assurance Capability and Requirement Core/Desirable Capabilities: 25%
- Approach to the delivery of services and project plan: 50%
- Team structure, experience, expertise, and ways of working: 15%
- Social Value: 10%
Published award criteria (5)
- Fraud Assurance Capability and Requirement Core/Desirable Capabilities: 25
- Approach to the delivery of services and project plan: 50
- Team structure, experience, expertise, and ways of working: 15
- Social Value: 10
- Price: PQP
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 19 Nov 2024, 16:34 GMT
- Last source update
- 21 Feb 2025, 10:15 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 19 Nov 2024 – …
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-006566- Accelerated
Reg 27
(4) Where contracting authorities have published a prior information notice which was not itself used as a means of calling for competition, the minimum time limit for the receipt of tenders as laid down in paragraph (2) may be shortened to 15 days, provided that both of the following conditions are fulfilled:-
(a)the prior information notice included all the information required for the contract notice in section I of part B of Annex V to the Public Contracts Directive insofar as that information was available at the time the prior information notice was published;
(b)the prior information notice was sent for publication between 35 days and 12 months before the date on which the contract notice was sent.
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04bd02Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 10 Dec 2024, 17:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 60 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 19 Nov 2024, 17:00 GMT
Timeline
19 Nov 2024 → 21 Feb 2025 · 3 dates- Bids opened19 Nov 2024, 17:00 GMT
- Submission deadline10 Dec 2024, 17:00 GMT
- Notice published21 Feb 2025, 10:15 GMT
Notice history
2 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 Nov 2024- Deadline moved to 10 Dec 2024, 17:00 GMT20 Nov 2024, 17:24 GMT+6 days · was 4 Dec 2024, 17:00 GMT
- Status changed to complete21 Feb 2025, 10:15 GMT
Published amendments (2 · 2 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DeadlineIV.2.2 | 4 Dec 2024 | 10 Dec 2024 | +6 d |
| — | DeadlineIV.2.2 | 4 Dec 2024 | 10 Dec 2024 | +6 d |
This corrigendum is to rectify the closing date for tender submission - CORRECTION to 10/12/2024 (17:00)
This corrigendum is to rectify the closing date for tender submission - CORRECTION to 10/12/2024 (17:00)
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| PricewaterhouseCoopers LLPSubcontracting: declared | £486,111 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
ECO4 Fraud and Error Assurance · PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Signed
- 28 Jan 2025
- Value
- £486,111
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Cabinet OfficeReview body
- Public Procurement ReviewReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLPAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.