Official UK procurement notice
Hydrogen Village Trials - PMO Support and Consumer Strategy Support
Authority: NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNGN requires the support of an external partner to align stakeholders, source required evidence and produce the artefacts which comprise. Defining Vulnerable customers in context of this project, and what NGN will provide these customers in terms of options and support, Understanding commercial customer needs and the offer(s) required to meet these, Determining the consumer impact of billing, protection and package options, Developing the end-to-end customer journey covering domestic, commercial, landlords and tenants, Documenting exit options and associated consumer impact. This requirement relates specifically to and will be built from work previously undertaken by this supplier. Also required is PMO resource for the Hydrogen Village Trial programme and other supporting / linked activities. The supplier has been selected to provide this service on the basis that they are already directly involved with the project as a result of other engagements in supporting and providing input to specific project workstreams which makes them ideally placed to deliver against this requirement on the basis of their pre-existing knowledge of the project and relationship with the NGN delivery team. These activities are also time critical in that the NGN submission to BEIS is due at the end of March 2023.
CPV: Business and management consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Mar 2023, 16:17 GMT
- Last source update
- 31 Jul 2023, 16:11 BST
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-022228- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03b207Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
The contract involved is purely for the purpose of research, experiment, study or development under the conditions stated in the directive
- Published justification
This contract relates directly to a research project to determine the ongoing supply of Hydrogen via the UK gas pipeline network as a substitute for Methane and as such this VEAT notice complies directly with Regulation 50 (b) which states "where a contract is purely for the purpose of research, experiment, study or development and not for the purpose of securing a profit or of recovering research and development costs, and insofar as the award of such contract does not prejudice the competitive award of subsequent contracts which do seek, in particular, those ends;"
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast2 further award records carry no date or value.
Contracts
Contract 007133-2023-1 · supplier not published
- Signed
- 23 Feb 2023
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Contract 022228-2023-1 · supplier not published
- Signed
- 23 Feb 2023
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Northern Gas NetworksReview body
- Northern Gas Networks LtdReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.