Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Commercial Procurement Services
Liverpool Road
Chester
CH2 1UL
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority
one.5) Main activity
Health
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Framework Agreement for Energy Infrastructure Improvement projects supporting the delivery of Net Zero targets
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 71314000 - Energy and related services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
The Countess of Chester Hospital Commercial Procurement Services (CPS) and the Carbon and
Energy Fund Ltd (CEF) seek to procure and manage a framework of capable contractors to
provide initial and ongoing net zero energy related resilience and service improvements to the
public sector in the UK.
This will be subject to Cabinet Office approval.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 09300000 - Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy
- 09320000 - Steam, hot water and associated products
- 09323000 - District heating
- 24111600 - Hydrogen
- 24321111 - Methane
- 31000000 - Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting
- 31527260 - Lighting systems
- 31600000 - Electrical equipment and apparatus
- 31682000 - Electricity supplies
- 42500000 - Cooling and ventilation equipment
- 42510000 - Heat-exchange units, air-conditioning and refrigerating equipment, and filtering machinery
- 42515000 - District heating boiler
- 45200000 - Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
- 45220000 - Engineering works and construction works
- 45232140 - District-heating mains construction work
- 45251000 - Construction works for power plants and heating plants
- 45251141 - Geothermal power station construction work
- 45251200 - Heating plant construction work
- 45251220 - Cogeneration plant construction work
- 45251250 - District-heating plant construction work
- 45255110 - Wells construction work
- 45300000 - Building installation work
- 45315300 - Electricity supply installations
- 45331000 - Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning installation work
- 50700000 - Repair and maintenance services of building installations
- 50710000 - Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations
- 50720000 - Repair and maintenance services of central heating
- 51100000 - Installation services of electrical and mechanical equipment
- 65400000 - Other sources of energy supplies and distribution
- 66000000 - Financial and insurance services
- 71300000 - Engineering services
- 71312000 - Structural engineering consultancy services
- 71313000 - Environmental engineering consultancy services
- 71314200 - Energy-management services
- 71314300 - Energy-efficiency consultancy services
- 71314310 - Heating engineering services for buildings
- 71315000 - Building services
- 71320000 - Engineering design services
- 76430000 - Well-drilling and production services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UK - United Kingdom
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Countess of Chester Hospital Commercial Procurement Services (CPS) and the Carbon and Energy Fund Ltd (CEF) seek to procure and manage a framework of capable contractors to provide initial and ongoing net zero energy related resilience and service improvements to the public sector in the UK.
The proposed framework will cover onsite comprehensive initial and ongoing low carbon energy efficient infrastructure services, improvement, and upgrades to existing or new facilities (LOT1) coupled with one of the main routes to net zero which are available in the UK, namely geothermal energy (LOT2), green district heating energy (LOT3), hydrogen or biogas delivery (LOT4.)
This notice is for pre-engagement only and seeks market feedback concerning the proposed public sector building net zero framework agreement in energy management for capable suppliers to propose, design, and contract to take public buildings to net zero.
This will be subject to Cabinet Office approval.
Provisional dates for pre-engagement presentations:
8/1/25 Teams call 12h00 for 45 mins (link available on request )
15/1/25 Teams call 12h00 for 45 mins (link available on request )
28/1/25 Teams call 12h00 for 45 mins (link available on request)
Please email info@coch-cps.co.uk to express interest in taking part in this early engagement exercise, including one of the dates detailed above to be invited to the session of your choice.
Note that this is NOT a call for competition. If we decide to go ahead with the framework, we will publish a separate notice.
The purpose of this Early Engagement notice is to conduct preliminary market consultation, with a view to preparing a procurement. Suppliers participating in this market consultation are not guaranteed to receive either an invitation to tender (if invitations to tender are issued), or a place on any framework agreement which may be awarded following an invitation to tender.
two.2.14) Additional information
Although there are Lots detailed within the description these are subject to change following the pre-market engagement process.
two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice
3 March 2025
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes
Section six. Complementary information
six.3) Additional information
The purpose of this Early Engagement notice is to conduct preliminary market consultation, with a view to preparing a procurement. Although there are Lots detailed within the description these are subject to change following the pre-market engagement process.
This will be subject to Cabinet Office approval.
Closing date for expressions of interest is 21/01/2025.