The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS): Climate services for BEIS

UK-London: Research services.


Preliminary Questions
   This notice is for prior information only: Yes
   This notice aims at reducing time-limits for receipt of tenders: No
   This notice is a call for competition: No
         
Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1) Name and addresses:
       Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
       1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET, United Kingdom
       Tel. +44 2072151513, Email: climatescience@beis.gov.uk
       Contact: Rhian Rees-Owen
       Main Address: https://www.delta-esourcing.com, Address of the buyer profile: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-energy-and-industrial-strategy
       NUTS Code: UK
      Specifications and additional documents: As Above
I.2) Joint procurement:
   The contract involves joint procurement: No.
   The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body: No .

I.3) Communication          
   Further information can be obtained from: the above mentioned address

I.4) Type of the contracting authority    
   Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
I.5) Main activity:    
   General public services

Section II: Object
      
II.1) Scope of the procurement - 1
   II.1.1) Title: Climate services for BEIS    
          Reference number:
   II.1.2) Common Procurement Vocabulary:       
      73110000 - Research services.          
         RD06-7 - In earth sciences         
         RD02-5 - In natural sciences         
         RD11-2 - For interdisciplinary fields         
         RD05-4 - In physics
   II.1.3) Type of contract: SERVICES
   II.1.4) Short description:    
      The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is intending to procure a research, evidence and translation programme to provide climate services for its workstreams.

The programme will provide up-to-date policy-relevant evidence and scientific advice to inform BEIS policy workstreams. The service will provide transdisciplinary underpinning analysis and modelling, covering a range of sectors including the state of the climate, climate impacts, co-benefits of climate action, decarbonisation pathways, and greenhouse gas removal technologies. It will also provide a comprehensive user-centred translation service including use of innovative data visualisation tools and communications techniques.

A supplier information day will be held on September 22nd 2020 and an ITT with the full research requirement will be published following this event. Attendance at the supplier day is not a pre-requisite for participation in the ITT.          
   II.1.5) Estimated total value:       
      Value excluding VAT (give figures only) : 4,100,000 - GBP
   II.1.6) Information about lots:
      This contract is divided into lots: No          
      Maximum number of lots that may be awarded to one tenderer: Not Provided       
      The contracting authority reserves the right to award contracts combining the following lots or groups of lots: Not Provided

II.2) Lot Description    
   II.2.3) Place of performance:       
      Region Codes:               
         UK - UNITED KINGDOM    
   II.2.4) Description of the procurement:       
      This procurement seeks to appoint a Contractor to deliver a major new climate services programme. The programme will provide underpinning research and evidence on climate impacts to natural and human systems, global decarbonisation, and the co-benefits of climate mitigation and adaptation. It will also include an evidence translation and advice service covering the same topics, and in addition for the state of the climate, trends and projections for key climate variables, and greenhouse gas removal technologies.

The Contractor would be expected to provide new policy-relevant evidence to address a range of research questions in these areas, and will be expected to maintain a broad range of expertise in the relevant topics. Evidence translation and communication will form a key part of this, and Contractors will be expected to co-produce several products with policy teams, including innovative data visualisation tools to enable teams to explore and understand climate information.    
   II.2.14) Additional information          
      The event will be held on 22 Sep using MS Teams, consisting of a presentation from BEIS followed by 1:1s, with a spillover session for 1:1s on 23 Sep. To register, email climatescience@beis.gov.uk by 17 Sep with your name, title, organization, and if you would like a 1:1.

1:1s are on a first-come first-served basis. Changes to the event’s timing will be communicated to registered attendees.    


II.3) Estimated Date of publication
         20/10/2020
      
      
Section IV: Procedure   

IV.1) Description       
   IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA )
         The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) - YES

Section VI: Complementary Information    
VI.3) Additional Information:       
   To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=523778447
GO-202097-PRO-17036927 TKR-202097-PRO-17036926        

VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 07/09/2020