Published date: 7 June 2019

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: 5 July 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy - 09000000

  • Installation services of electrical and mechanical equipment - 51100000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£0 to £75,000

Procurement reference

LEM004g

Published date

7 June 2019

Closing date

5 July 2019

Contract start date

22 July 2019

Contract end date

31 December 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other: Invitation to Tender (National Rules)

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Centrica plc's Cornwall Local Energy Market project (LEM) is an EU-funded initiative involving the development of a virtual energy marketplace. The trial provides homes and businesses with the technology and a software platform to buy and sell energy and flexibility to both the supply networks and the wholesale energy market. The project's overarching aim is to demonstrate that the electricity distribution network can facilitate an increased penetration of renewable / low carbon electricity generation by invoking novel strategies including flexibility.

The LEM project will enable energy asset flexibility in the most constrained areas on the distribution network in Cornwall. To this end the project will install low carbon energy generation assets, such as natural gas CHP, renewable energy generation, storage, private wire networks, and demand-side response technologies into selected industrial and commercial premises in Cornwall.

LEM project outputs also include the promotion of flexible energy generation, consumption and demand in the most constrained areas on the distribution network. To this end the project is offering grants to support the installation of device level energy monitoring equipment in business premises across Cornwall and seeking to recruit businesses which have potential to offer demand-side response to participate in trials of the local energy market across 2019 and 2020.

Centrica is looking for an experienced electrical services contractor to provide support for the Cornwall LEM electrical installation, metering and monitoring activities by:

• Conducting site surveys in businesses across Cornwall to understand the potential for and value of installing energy monitoring equipment and assess the scope for businesses to provide demand-side response as part of the Cornwall LEM trials
• Where scope for providing demand-side response is identified, assessing the requirement for additional control, metering and monitoring equipment needed to enable the business to provide that response
• Installation support and customer aftercare for the energy monitoring grants programme, including supporting the Cornwall LEM energy monitoring equipment grant recipients to install and maintain their equipment over the course of the contract

The full Invitation to Tender which will become available after you register your interest.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

Cornwall LEM Programme is being funded by Centrica and the British Gas Energy for Tomorrow Fund, alongside a £13m grant from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF under the ESIF Growth Programme 2014-20) and as such operates under national procurement rules.

To request the ITT pack, please send an email to: cornwall@centrica.com with this reference in the subject title: Cornwall LEM004g Electrical Services

Before setting you up in Centrica's supply chain system SAP Ariba, we will require your company to complete the company information form attached. Centrica will conduct due diligence checks at this point.

Following receipt of bidders company information, access to Ariba will be issued in due course via an automated email from Centrica Group Procurement. The ITT pack for this tender will be released on Ariba on Wednesday 19 June 2019. Please indicate your intention to bid by Wednesday 3 July 2019.

This tender will be live until 12:00 GMT Friday 5 July 2019.

Questions will not be taken or answered during the ITT stage other than through Centrica's supply chain system SAP Ariba. All questions submitted in Ariba and the answers given will be visible to competing suppliers.

Direct communication with a member of the Cornwall LEM team during the tender advertising period is strictly prohibited and may result in your tender being disqualified.

About the buyer

Contact name

Register for a ITT pack via the Cornwall LEM email address

Address

Health and Wellbeing Innovation Centre
Treliske
Truro
TR1 3FF
England

Email

cornwall@centrica.com