Official UK procurement notice
Technical Third Party Support (TTPS) for the Net-Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) · Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Jul 2021)
Authority: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Central government)
What is being bought5 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) requires Technical Third Party Support (TTPS) to assist with the delivery of the Net-Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP). The objective of the NZIP portfolio is to facilitate delivery of the UK’s Net-Zero commitments, continuing to invest in climate science and energy innovation to reduce human impact on climate change. There are ten technical themes that fall under the portfolio and in order to deliver each theme, SICE requires specialist technical expertise expertise to support the development of projects, the bid appraisal process, and the ongoing monitoring, management and evaluation of programmes and projects. Therefore, BEIS intends to procure services to deliver the following: Programme development support, Bid review and selection, Programme management support, Monitoring and Evaluation and Social Research support.
CPV: Engineering services · Social research services · Technical analysis or consultancy services
Lots and requirements (5)Procurement structure
5 lots · all with a published value (£14,300,000 together) · win at most 2 of themLot #1Technical CoordinatorPublished value£1,200,000
The technical coordinator (Lot 1) will provide technical and commercial expertise to manage the delivery of work packages, coordinating and integrating delivery of the all other lots (Lots 2, 3, 4 and 5) in coordination with BEIS. This includes:
-Management, monitoring and administration of work packages to relevant technical lots.
-Overseeing delivery of the lots
-Budget and finance management
Lot #2Social Research and EvaluationPublished value£1,000,000
This lot will allow for specialist expertise to provide social research and evaluation support and advice across the NZIP portfolio during new programme design/development and programme delivery. This will include:
•Evidence reviews (e.g. Literature review, Rapid Evidence Assessment)
•External stakeholder and public engagement (including qualitative focus groups)
•Customer, consumer, and behavioural insights
•Social research planning/advice
•Programme evaluation planning/advice (process and impact evaluation)
Lot #3Carbon Control and StoragePublished value£4,700,000
This lot will deliver Programme Development, Bid Assessment, Programme Management and Monitoring support to programmes that fall under the following technical themes and areas:
-Long Duration Energy Storage
-Industry & CCUS (including biomass conversion)
-Greenhouse Gas Removal
-Hydrogen & Fuel Switching
-Systems, networks and integration
-Energy markets and regulatory expertise
-Manufacturing expertise
Lot #4Energy ConsumptionPublished value£3,100,000
This lot will deliver Programme Development, Bid Assessment, Programme Management and Monitoring support to programmes that fall under the following technical themes:
-Domestic Hydrogen
-Artificial intelligence
-New build
-Smart and in-home energy management systems
-EEF – Energy Entrepreneurs Fund
-Disruptive Technologies
Lot #5Energy Generation and DistributionPublished value£4,300,000
This lot will deliver Programme Development, Bid Assessment, Programme Management and Monitoring support to programmes that fall under the following technical themes:
-Bioenergy
-Nuclear
-Floating Offshore Wind
-Onshore wind
-Biomass boilers
-Solar Heating
-Hydrogen Supply
-Heat Pumps + Retrofit
-Heat distribution
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How this buyer will score bids.
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The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 14 Jul 2021, 09:15 BST
- Last source update
- 14 Jul 2021, 09:15 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 20 Aug 2021 – …
- Authority reference
TRN: 5150/06/2021- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-016439- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 20 Aug 2021, 14:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 20 Aug 2021, 14:01 BST
Timeline
14 Jul 2021 → 20 Aug 2021 · 3 dates- Notice published14 Jul 2021, 09:15 BST
- Submission deadline20 Aug 2021, 14:00 BST
- Bids opened20 Aug 2021, 14:01 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria