Industrial Decarbonisation Market Mechanisms Regulatory Support 24-28

Lot 1 - Our 'business as usual' activities (permitting, account opening and assessing reports from businesses such as energy data, emissions data, annual reports) Additional information: For Lot 1 our ‘business as usual’ activities, the work will be dependent on each regime. The main work areas include permitting, account opening and assessing reports from businesses such as energy data, emissions data, and annual reports. Detailed below is a summary of the types of activities we undertake, although this list is not exhaustive:<br/><br/>

• Determination of New Permits, Underlying Agreements, Registrations and Applications, Offsetting Obligations.<br/>
• Determination of subsequent Variations and Transfers Applications, Assess the eligibility of new facilities being added to agreements <br/>
• Review annual reports, monitoring plans, methodology plans, improvement reports, licence applications. <br/>
• Assessment of data submissions, process target period report submissions<br/>
• Undertake due diligence checks and assessments<br/>
• Respond to technical queries and produce technical guidance<br/>
• Submission of data to meet UK and International requirements<br/><br/>Skills and expertise required: <br/><br/>We are looking for suppliers who can provide consultants that are qualified to a degree level (or have significant experience) in a relevant field and have experience of working with relevant sectors or organisations in one or more of the following areas; energy management, climate change regimes, other environmental regulation and permitting experience.

Lot 2, our audit work, is to ensure a participant, sector or operator is compliant with the relevant regulations. Our work also involves completing audits to review the accreditation of the professional bodies for ESOS. Additional information: Skills and expertise required: <br/><br/>We are looking for suppliers who can provide consultants that are qualified to a degree level (or have significant experience) in a relevant field, have experience of working with relevant sectors, a high degree of knowledge of industrial processes and have experience of delivering detailed energy or emissions audits. For our ESOS audits, consultant must be an approved lead assessor for ESOS and have undertaken several ESOS compliance assessments for a range of companies in different sectors. <br/><br/>This lot may be awarded to up to two suppliers.

Lot 3, where specific technical advice will be sought. For example, we might want to seek independent expertise to validate an operator’s request, we might need specific advice on a particular sector, or a particular process undertaken by an operator under any of our regimes, we might want independent advice on guidance we intend to publish. Additional information: Skills and expertise required: <br/><br/>We are looking for suppliers who can provide consultants that are qualified to a degree level (or have significant experience) in a relevant field, have the technical skills and experience of working with relevant operators and sectors and a high degree of knowledge of industrial processes and operations relevant to the regimes we regulate.