The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS): Hydrogen Heating Technical Support

UK-London: Technical support 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 & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
       1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET, United Kingdom
       Tel. +44 2072151053, Email: nick.stanworth@beis.gov.uk
       Contact: Nick Stanworth
       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: Hydrogen Heating Technical Support    
          Reference number:
   II.1.2) Common Procurement Vocabulary:       
      71356300 - Technical support services.
   II.1.3) Type of contract: SERVICES
   II.1.4) Short description:    
      The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) plans to issue an invitation to tender for the procurement of technical architecture/support services in relation to its work on hydrogen for heating programme and is keen to attract a diverse supplier pool with a range of expert strategic and technical perspectives on the programme of work. Technical support supplier(s) will provide continued support in identifying and taking forward a comprehensive programme of work to test and demonstrate the safety, technical feasibility, consumer impacts and consumer acceptability of using hydrogen in place of natural gas for heating at scale.

Contractor responsibilities may include: programme technical architecture, day-to-day technical oversight of Programme, interpreting key technical outputs and providing gap analyses to support design, development and delivery of strategies to close evidence gaps and support on the coordination of the overall programme of work          
   II.1.5) Estimated total value:       
      Value excluding VAT (give figures only) : 750,000 - 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.2.2) Additional CPV code(s):       
      71356300 - Technical support services.          
      24111600 - Hydrogen.          
      71300000 - Engineering services.          
      71318000 - Advisory and consultative engineering services.          
      71621000 - Technical analysis or consultancy services.          
      72224000 - Project management consultancy services.          
      71313000 - Environmental engineering consultancy services.       
   II.2.3) Place of performance:       
      Region Codes:               
         UK - UNITED KINGDOM    
   II.2.4) Description of the procurement:       
      We are looking for a diverse pool of suppliers to provide BEIS with a range of expert strategic and technical perspectives on the programme of work and support on the coordination of the overall programme of work. The key requirements are to:
•Perform the role of technical architect for the Programme, including day-to-day technical oversight of the Programme;
•Interpret key technical outputs and providing gap analyses to support the design, development and delivery of strategies to close evidence gaps;
•Deliver small projects to determine the scope of future work (e.g. desk-based studies);
•Provide ad-hoc expert technical support on technical aspects of the Programme.

Please see details below on supplier engagement session - discussion will include types of skills and expertise we are seeking for this requirement, allowing potential suppliers to ask questions and to enable suppliers to network. It is intended that an ITT will be published shortly after this event.    
   II.2.14) Additional information          
      Supplier Engagement Event – Monday 26th October 2020

When: 10:00 – 14:00

Where: Virtually – MS Teams - joining instructions will be emailed

Register by email to: nick.stanworth@beis.gov.uk by 17:00 Wednesday 21st October 2020.    


II.3) Estimated Date of publication
         09/11/2020
      
      
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=534441929
GO-20201014-PRO-17222122 TKR-20201014-PRO-17222121        

VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 14/10/2020