The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS): Winter Grant Funding

UK-London: Treasury 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 of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy
       1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET, United Kingdom
       Tel. +44 2072152558, Email: stewart.kemsley@beis.gov.uk
       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: Winter Grant Funding    
          Reference number:
   II.1.2) Common Procurement Vocabulary:       
      66600000 - Treasury services.
   II.1.3) Type of contract: SERVICES
   II.1.4) Short description:    
      *Please note this is not a call for competition, this is a PIN notice for a BEIS requirement. *

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) wishes to commission work to distribute small grants to households.
This work would support an ongoing scheme and would be to reach households across Great Britain which do not have a domestic electricity meter and a direct relationship with an electricity supplier. This would include park homes paying a site owner, properties on a private electricity network, those not connected to the electricity network, etc.
In order to achieve this outcome BEIS are looking for a potential delivery partner who would be able to distribute funds to households in line with the policy. We have examined similar schemes such as the Park Homes Warm Home Discount but we would be interested in hearing of other similar approaches.
An appropriate delivery partner for this scheme would be suitable to handle public money and distribute it to households who do not have a domestic electricity meter and a direct relationship with an electricity supplier. We expect this to involve the creation of a customer application system in accordance with policy guidelines and to collect proof that the residents meet the eligibility criteria laid out by the policy and to undertake suitable fraud prevention. Once eligible households have been identified the delivery body would need to distribute the funds in an appropriate fashion (BACs, cheques, vouchers, etc) and to monitor and report on the amounts of funds being dispersed, applications received, etc.
Given the time constraints of this project as the intention of the grant is to assist with winter bill payments we would prefer to use a business partner through a Crown Commercial Framework, the CCS Grants Framework is a DPS framework and can be onboarded onto.          
   II.1.5) Estimated total value: Not Provided
   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):       
      75000000 - Administration, defence and social security services.          
      75130000 - Supporting services for the government.          
      75131000 - Government services.          
      75131100 - General personnel services for the government.       
   II.2.3) Place of performance:       
      Region Codes:               
         UK - UNITED KINGDOM    
   II.2.4) Description of the procurement:       
      Please see the above description    
   II.2.14) Additional information       
      Not Provided


II.3) Estimated Date of publication
         01/10/2022
      
      
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:       
   We would like to invite prospective bidders to attend a pre-market engagement session on Thursday 4th August at 14:00-15:30 via MS Teams. This session will provide an opportunity for potential suppliers to find out more about the aims of the procurement and the process.

Suppliers wishing to attend need to RSVP by 29th July at 12:00 stating their name, company and email. This information should be sent to the following email address: stewart.kemsley@beis.gov.uk for the attention of Stewart Kemsley. Suppliers wishing to attend will need to sign an NDA which will be sent out after interest is registered.
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VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 21/07/2022