Tender

UK Greenhouse gas Inventory improvement programme

  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

F02: Contract notice

Notice identifier: 2022/S 000-021848

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-035a2a

Published 9 August 2022, 12:11pm



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

1 Victoria Street

London

SW1H0ET

Email

greenhousegas.statistics@beis.gov.uk

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UK - United Kingdom

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/

Buyer's address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy

one.1) Name and addresses

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

London

SW1H0ET

Email

greenhousegas.statistics@beis.gov.uk

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UK - United Kingdom

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/

one.2) Information about joint procurement

The contract involves joint procurement

The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body

one.3) Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at

https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/

Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via

https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-mentioned address

Electronic communication requires the use of tools and devices that are not generally available. Unrestricted and full direct access to these tools and devices is possible, free of charge, at

https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/

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

Reference number

prj_67

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.

We require:

- Scientific/technical services which would take existing inventory methodologies using the latest available science to 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

- A contractor with strong PPM expertise to ensure that this contract is delivered on time and to quality

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
  • 90700000 - Environmental 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 is available 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 more accuracy, completeness & transparency

• More reliable, robust and transparent inventory software, to support production of accurate & open inventory estimates

We require

- 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.2.5) Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

two.2.6) Estimated value

Value excluding VAT: £3,000,000

two.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

End date

31 March 2025

This contract is subject to renewal

No

two.2.10) Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: No

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No


Section three. Legal, economic, financial and technical information

three.1) Conditions for participation

three.1.2) Economic and financial standing

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

three.1.3) Technical and professional ability

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

three.2) Conditions related to the contract

three.2.3) Information about staff responsible for the performance of the contract

Obligation to indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff assigned to performing the contract


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number: 2022/S 035-005938

four.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date

31 October 2022

Local time

2:00pm

four.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

English

four.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

Tender must be valid until: 31 March 2025

four.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders

Date

31 October 2022

Local time

2:00pm


Section six. Complementary information

six.1) Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: No

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

1 Victoria Street

London

SW1H0ET

Email

greenhousegas.statistics@beis.gov.uk

Country

United Kingdom