Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET
Contact
Inga Mills
greenhousegas.statistics@beis.gov.uk
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://www.delta-esourcing.com
Buyer's address
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy
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
General public services
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
UK Greenhouse gas Inventory improvement programme
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 90700000 - Environmental services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
BEIS is seeking to procure services to deliver scientific, technical & digital improvements to the Greenhouse Gas Inventory System. The GHG Inventory System is used to calculate economy-wide emissions of GHGs across UK territory from 1990 to the present day, to measure progress against climate targets.
We require:
- Scientific/technical services which would take existing inventory methodologies and – using the latest available science – update these to improve the transparency, accuracy and completeness.
- Technical/digital services to ensure methodologies in the inventory system use state-of-the-art software and existing software systems can be upgraded where needed
- Programme management, to ensure that the services commissioned through this contract are delivered on time, to quality and delivery risks are identified and managed
This will be a time and materials contract over 34 months.
BEIS is holding a supplier event on MS Teams on 22 March, consisting of a presentation by BEIS followed by 1:1s.
two.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £3,000,000
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 71351611 - Climatology services
- 72212461 - Analytical or scientific software development services
- 73110000 - Research services
- 90730000 - Pollution tracking and monitoring and rehabilitation
- 90731000 - Services related to air pollution
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UK - United Kingdom
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
Our inventory meets domestic & international reporting requirements. A description of this system can be found at https://naei.beis.gov.uk/about/national-inventory-system and a full description of the methods used at https://naei.beis.gov.uk/reports/reports?report_id=1015
In order to allow a pipeline of R&D to underpin inventory improvements as we move to the 2050 net zero target, we require:
• New inventory methodologies which estimate emissions from particular sectors with better accuracy, completeness & transparency
• reliable, robust and transparent inventory software, to support production of accurate & open inventory estimates
Skills needed are
- technical expertise in estimating GHG emissions from sectors, including land-use, industry, waste, energy [& agriculture].
- software expertise around the application of existing analytical tools (e.g. R, Python) to scientific problems, the development of models to process large datasets & SQL database expertise.
- a contractor with strong PPM expertise to manage this work
two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice
15 April 2022
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
Please register your interest for the supplier event by 5pm on 10th March, by sending your name, email, organisation and job title to greenhousegas.statistics@beis.gov.uk, indicating whether you would like to book a 15-minute 1:1 slot with a member of the BEIS team; these are limited and allocated on a first-come first-served basis.