The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS): Economic Regulation: Analytical Study

UK-London: Research and development services and related consultancy 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:
       The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
       1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET, United Kingdom
       Tel. +44 7901306444, Email: john.fitzpatrick2@beis.gov.uk
       Contact: John Fitzpatrick
       Main Address: 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: Economic Regulation: Analytical Study    
          Reference number: john fitzpatrick
   II.1.2) Common Procurement Vocabulary:       
      73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services.
   II.1.3) Type of contract: SERVICES
   II.1.4) Short description:    
      The National Infrastructure Strategy committed government to producing an overarching policy paper on economic regulation. A key part of the policy paper will concern the government conducting a review of economic regulator's duties in 2022. To inform this review, we need to commission an analytical study into regulators' duties in telecoms, energy and water. The study will assess how well regulators have been meeting their existing duties, the effectiveness of existing duties, what impact has resulted from new duties being introduced, and recommend areas the government review should focus on.

BEIS intends using the CCS Research Market place framework agreement for this opportunity and so if you're not registered on this framework please follow the link https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6018, do allow for up to 3 weeks for registration. The ITT will be issued in early January 2022.          
   II.1.5) Estimated total value:       
      Value excluding VAT (give figures only) : 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:       
      By March 31, Government requires a report setting out the following for telecoms (ofcom), energy (ofgem) and water (ofwat) regulators:



A. A map of regulators’ duties
B. How regulators have been meeting their duties in practice? This includes considering how well regulators ensure:
- private sector investment
- the resilience of infrastructure systems
- meeting government’s legislated greenhouse gas emissions targets
- protecting consumers and improving their outcomes
- making trade offs between different duties
- Collaboration with other regulators to promote efficient outcomes for consumers.



C. How well duties can be considered to be functioning as a result of the above?
D. The impact of introducing of new duties over time on decision making?
E. Recommendations for areas that a future government review could consider?    
   II.2.14) Additional information          
      In order to provide prospective suppliers with the opportunity to gain more detail on the project and identify potential partners, BEIS are holding a Supplier Day via MS Teams on 16 December 2021 from 11.00 to 12.00. Interested organisations please contact john.fitzpatrick2@beis.gov.uk to reserve your place.    


II.3) Estimated Date of publication
         10/01/2022
      
      
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:       
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VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 10/12/2021