Disabled users: Fuel Poverty Statistics Modelling

UK-London: Market and economic research; polling and statistics.


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
       Email: Katie.Allison@beis.gov.uk
       Contact: Katie Allison
       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: Fuel Poverty Statistics Modelling    
          Reference number:
   II.1.2) Common Procurement Vocabulary:       
      79300000 - Market and economic research; polling and statistics.
   II.1.3) Type of contract: SERVICES
   II.1.4) Short description:    
      The purpose of the project is to enable the department to produce annual fuel poverty National Statistics on the number of households in fuel poverty, the associated fuel poverty gap and progress against the Government’s statutory target based on the fuel poverty energy efficiency rating of a household. The supplier will deliver the baseline annual fuel poverty datasets. This includes using information from various national datasets about household characteristics to model: (a) the fuel consumption the household requires to maintain an adequate standard of warmth and meet other basic energy needs; (b) fuel prices for each household; (c) the full income of all the household members; and (d) creation of key variable flags and simulated Policy impacts, which are not available directly from the English Housing Surveys (EHS).

More information on the National Statistics can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics          
   II.1.5) Estimated total value:       
      Value excluding VAT (give figures only) : 740,000 - 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:       
      The purpose of the project is to enable the department to produce annual fuel poverty National Statistics on the number of households in fuel poverty, the associated fuel poverty gap and progress against the Government’s statutory target based on the fuel poverty energy efficiency rating of a household. The supplier will deliver the baseline annual fuel poverty datasets. This includes using information from various national datasets about household characteristics to model: (a) the fuel consumption the household requires to maintain an adequate standard of warmth and meet other basic energy needs; (b) fuel prices for each household; (c) the full income of all the household members; and (d) creation of key variable flags and simulated Policy impacts, which are not available directly from the English Housing Surveys (EHS).


More information on the National Statistics can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics    
   II.2.14) Additional information          
      The estimated date of publication is July/August. The length of this contract is 2 years with the option to extend for two additional years on a one plus one year basis. If the option to extend is taken up the total value of the contract would be £1,400,000.    


II.3) Estimated Date of publication
         05/08/2019
      
      
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=405935432
GO-2019612-PRO-14986277 TKR-2019612-PRO-14986276        

VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 12/06/2019