Official UK procurement notice
Technical Third Party Support (TTPS) for the Net-Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) · Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Apr 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 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. As part of a revised contract scope, BEIS intends to procure Social Research and Evaluation support as one of the lots in the Technical Third Party Support.
BEIS intends to procure advisory and engineering-related services which may include some or all of the following:
-Programme development support
-Bid review and selection
-Programme management support
-Monitoring
-Evaluation and Social Research
-Technical advisory support
The link to the original PIN can be found at: www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html ↗
GO-2021325-PRO-17982976 TKR-2021325-PRO-17982975
CPV: Engineering services · Social research services · Technical analysis or consultancy services
Lots and requirements (5)Procurement structure
5 lots · no lot values published · win at most 2 of themLot #1Management LotPlanned
This lot would provide BEIS the single point of contact for any new requirements, focusing contract management activities. The management contractor would be responsible for monitoring the delivery of contractors in Lots 2-5, allocating and managing work pipelines, management reporting and performance reporting.
Lot #2Social Research and EvaluationPlanned
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)
BEIS will be facilitating a market consultation to all interested suppliers, specifically for the Social Research and Evaluation support.
Lot #3Carbon Control and StoragePlanned
This lot will focus on 'big engineering', large scale projects, storage (including Hydrogen storage) and the alignment with technical support.
Primary technical themes:
-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 ConsumptionPlanned
This lot will focus on SMART and Built Environment technical themes. It will also include hydrogen that fits consumer/consumption definition e.g. domestic and commercial hydrogen.
Primary technical themes:
-Hydrogen (where appropriate)
-AI
-New build
-SMART and in-home energy management systems
-EEF – Energy Entrepreneurs Fund
Lot #5Energy Generation and DistributionPlanned
This lot will focus on the following technical themes.
-Bioenergy
-Nuclear
-Floating Offshore Wind
-Onshore wind
-Manufacturing expertise
-Biomass boilers
-Solar Heating
-Hydrogen Supply
-Heat Pumps + Retrofit
-Manufacturing expertise
-Heat distribution
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- 28 Apr 2021, 14:24 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Apr 2021, 14:24 BST
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-009138- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02ab23Find a Tender
Publisher note: The link to the original PIN can be found at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=581720623 GO-2021325-PRO-17982976 TKR-2021325-PRO-17982975 BEIS are planning to run a market consultation via email, specifically for Lot 2 – Social Research and Evaluation. Market engagement for Lots 1 and 3-5 has already taken place so the purpose of this market consultation is specifically for the addition of Lot 2. Interested suppliers should register their interest for this work by emailing your name, title and organisation to sice.ttps@beis.gov.uk with the subject heading “NZIP Technical Third Party Support Social Research and Evaluation Market Consultation”. The documents will be sent directly to your email. To view this notice, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=589859211 GO Reference: GO-2021428-PRO-18152351
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 Apr 2021 → 1 Jul 2021 · 2 dates- Notice published28 Apr 2021, 14:24 BST
- Tender notice expected1 Jul 2021, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.