Published date: 24 October 2019

This notice was replaced on 1 July 2021

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Awarded contract (published 1 July 2021, last edited 21 June 2023)

Closed early engagement


Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

Location of contract

London

Procurement reference

UK SBS CR19084

Published date

24 October 2019

Closing date

4 November 2019

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

**Please note this is not a call for competition**
This is a PIN notice for an event

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy have a requirement, this project will demonstrate the feasibility of a large-scale rollout of heat pumps and install heat pumps in a representative range of housing archetypes, alongside new products and services designed to overcome the barriers to deployment. A separate tender has been issued for the Management contractor, and a separate tender will be issued for the Delivery Contractors.

The Electrification of Heat Demonstration Project is expected to recruit enough participants to deliver 1,800 Home Suitability Surveys, in order to understand the technical and practical feasibility of a large-scale rollout of heat pumps. These will be spread across a representative range of housing archetypes and social groups, with the majority on the gas grid. The project should then install and monitor 750 heat pumps across a representative range of housing archetypes, again with the majority on the gas grid. For more information on the Project, please visit:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/electrification-of-heat-demonstration-project

At the supplier engagement event, we will explain our current thinking on the evaluation specification, and seek input and advice from evaluation experts on research and data collection methods that would help identify the impact of the Electrification of Heat Demonstration project and on methods to evaluate the process of the Project.

The overall objective of this evaluation is to understand the level of satisfaction and acceptability of heat pumps across multiple different housing archetypes, ultimately answering whether heat pumps are an acceptable option for consumers to support the mainstreaming of this technology.

Please refer to attachment 'UK SBS CR19084 Electrification of Heat Demonstration project Evaluation' for more information.
A market engagement event will be held on Thursday 07th November 2019 at The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Conference Centre, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET from 10:00 to 12:30.

This will provide an opportunity for potential providers to find out more about the aims of the procurement and the process. Providers wishing to attend need to RSVP by Friday 1st November 2019 at 14.00 stating their name, title, email and phone numbers- please note there is a restriction of up to two attendees per organisation. This information should be sent to the
following email address: Research@uksbs.co.uk

Please ensure that the subject heading for the email is as follows:
CR19084 Market Engagement Event. Depending on the outcome of this supplier engagement event, BEIS and UK SBS will be looking to issue this tender W/C 25th November 2019, with a closing date of 11th January 2020.

More information

Attachments

About the buyer

Contact name

UK SBS Research Procurement

Address

Polaris House
North Star Avenue
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Telephone

01793867000

Email

Research@uksbs.co.uk