Published date: 11 July 2020

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 24 August 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£4,300,000

Procurement reference

BIP506734386

Published date

11 July 2020

Closing date

24 August 2017

Contract start date

22 November 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Modification Notice
Original description: BEIS intends to appoint a programme management contractor (PMC), with required programme and technical expertise, to manage and deliver a programme to demonstrate and de-risk the use of hydrogen for heating in GB homes and businesses.
The programme will support and inform future policy analysis and understanding of the potential for hydrogen use to contribute to meeting the UK's 2050 carbon targets. The programme is intended to complete by end of March 2021 and consist of 9 packages: (1) Programme management (2) Definition of a hydrogen quality standard (3) Establishing an appliance and equipment testing capability (4) Development of domestic hydrogen appliances (5) Understanding commercial appliances (6) Understanding industrial appliances (7) Assessment of suitability of existing buildings (8) Trialing hydrogen appliances in unoccupied buildings (9) Preparations for occupied consumer trial.
For background, full specification and further information please see the ITT.
Description of the modifications
This variation is for extra resource for technical advice & prog mgt of WP delivery and oversight, and the cessation of WP9 activities. Previous variations were:

+ CR01 Smart Hydrogen Meter variation (£300,000)

+ CR02 Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) (£449,929.85)
Description of the economic or technical reasons and the inconvenience or duplication of cost preventing a change of contractor:
Change of contractor cannot be made due to being 3 years into programme of work; handover to another supplier would involve significant high-risk, and duplication of costs. E.g. on the QRA safety work where extensive technical analysis has already been done on the safety case that is being put together for trialling hydrogen in homes.
Introducing a new contractor would also have serious timing impacts, and prevent the programme being finished on time.

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About the buyer

Address

1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET
UK

Telephone

+4402072151735

Email

BuiltEnvironmentInnovation@beis.gov.uk