PS21093 - Energy Innovation Portfolio Evaluation

Contract summary

Industry

• Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

• Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

Location of contract

SW1H 0ET

Procurement reference

PS21093 - Energy Innovation Portfolio Evaluation

Published date

6 July 2021

Closing date

13 July 2021

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

** Please note this is not a call for competition, This is a PIN notice for a Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy requirement**

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), will be holding a virtual Pre-procurement Event on the Portfolio Synthesis evaluation of the Energy Innovation Portfolio.

During the event we would like to set out the components of the proposed work, the envisaged timescales and required skills, and obtain your thoughts and feedback on how to successfully specify and tender this work.

As background:
In 2015 the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) launched the £505m Energy Innovation Portfolio (EIP), with the aim of reducing UK carbon emissions and the cost of decarbonisation through accelerating the commercialisation of innovative clean energy technologies and processes. To date, evaluation work has focused largely on one or more of the over 74 innovation programmes that form the portfolio. The work envisaged in this contract comprises:

• Carry out the EIP Synthesis
o Provide an urgent interim initial synthesis of existing evidence
of the EIP, for Autumn 2021.
o Carry out a literature review on innovation theory, to frame
the full EIP synthesis.
o Carry out a full synthesis of all EIP evidence, for September
2024.

• Carry out an annual sweep of KPI data for EIP projects between
2022 and 2024.
o Manage the data collection, cleaning and analysis process.
o Design, build and populate a KPI data dashboard.

• Provide an annual, publishable report on the progress of NZIP
o Annually analyse NZIP KPI data.
o Analyse and report at a high level on the progress of each
theme.
o Prepare deep-dives into two themes per year.

• Scope and begin implementing the NZIP portfolio evaluation
o Scope the feasibility for, and design of, a cross-portfolio
counterfactual impact evaluation.
o Scope the potential for, and design of, a cross-portfolio
process evaluation.
o Scope the potential for, and design of, a robust assessment of
progress in the light of the government's net zero ambition.

The anticipated budget for this requirement is £700,000

We would like to invite prospective bidders to attend a pre-market engagement session on Thursday, 15th July 2021 via MS Teams.

The agenda for the day is as follows:
• Introductions, • Overview of the requirement, • Evaluation expectations,• Procurement overview, • Discussion / Q&A

Note that the route to market will be via CCS Research Marketplace DPS (RM6018) (www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM6018) and to bid for this work the lead contractor will have to be registered on the CCS Research Marketplace DPS (RM6018) prior to the requirement being launched in early August 2021.

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More information

Additional text

A pre-market engagement session will be held on Thursday, 15th July 2021 at 14:00 to 15:00 via MS Teams. 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 Tuesday, 13th July 2021 at 14.00 stating their name, company and email.
This information should be sent to the following email address: professionalservices@uksbs.co.uk for the attention of Victoria Clewer.
Please ensure that the subject heading for the email is as follows: PS21093 Energy Innovation Portfolio Evaluation Market Engagement Event. It is anticipated that the tender documentation will be released in August 2021.

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About the buyer

Address

Polaris House, North Star Avenue
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Email

professionalservices@uksbs.co.uk