Published date: 7 June 2021

Last edited date: 10 November 2021

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 4 January 2021, 11am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

SW1H 0ET

Value of contract

£450,000

Procurement reference

CR20116

Published date

7 June 2021

Closing date

4 January 2021

Closing time

11am

Contract start date

29 January 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The final date and time for the submission of bids is Monday 4th January 2021 at 11:00

DO NOT apply directly to the buyer.

UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) on behalf of The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), wishes to establish a Framework for the provision of Energy and Climate Change Behavioural Science Services.

UK SBS is managing this procurement process in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) (the "Regulations").

The duration of this Framework will be 26 Months (From award till the 31st March 2023).

It is intended that there will be 3 suppliers awarded to this Framework. These awarded suppliers will be ranked 1st 2nd and 3rd based of the scores awarded from this completion of this procurement.

Background:

Behavioural science provides vital insight regarding the responses of citizens, consumers, businesses, and other groups to government policies. Many energy and climate change policies particularly require, and indeed encourage, individuals to change their behaviour in response to incentives, regulation, and other measures - behavioural insights can help to maximise the impacts of these.

Insights from behavioural science are important to ensure that proposed policies, market incentives, and other interventions will elicit the desired response from consumers and businesses. In addition, advice from behavioural scientists could help to improve policy development and maximise the effectiveness of policy interventions.

This Framework is intended to enable BEIS to gain behavioural science insight within an appropriate timeframe to feed into policy development, while minimising the resources required to commission this work.


Please ensure you review all attached information to ensure a full understanding of this requirement. All attachments can be found with the Document Uploads tab within the Delta eSourcing Portal.

This contract will be awarded based on the evaluation criteria set out in the RFP document.


How to apply:

UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) will be using the Delta eSourcing Portal for this procurement.

To register on the Delta eSourcing portal please use the link https://delta-esourcing.com and follow the instructions to register.

If you are already registered on the Delta eSourcing Portal and wish to participate in this procurement, please use the link https://delta-esourcing.com and then follow the instructions to 'Login'.

Once you are logged into the system you will be able to link yourself into this
procurement using the Access code: 24349H7BJW

Please disregard any content in this notice that requests your organisation 'to apply directly to the buyer' as this is unfortunately a system generated error, that is outside of the Contracting Authorities control.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

CR20116 - Energy and Climate Change Behavioural Science Framework

  • Opportunity
  • Published 23 November 2020

Attachments

Links

Additional text

DO NOT APPLY DIRECTLY TO BUYER

The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.
All submissions will be assessed in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, for procurement values that exceed Regulation 5 (Threshold amounts).

Responses must be received by the date in the tender documentation; responses received outside of the deadline or not sent via the Delta eSourcing portal will not be accepted or considered further for this opportunity. As a user of the Delta eSourcing Portal you will have access to the Delta messaging service which facilitates all messages sent to you and from you in relation to any specific tender event. Please note it is your responsibility to access these messages on a regular basis to ensure you have sight of all relevant information applicable to this opportunity.

The contracting authority expressly reserves the right:
i. not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; and
ii. to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the procurement; and in no circumstances will the contracting authority be liable for any costs incurred by any supplier. If the contracting authority decides to enter into a contract with the successful supplier, this does not mean that there is any guarantee of subsequent contracts being awarded. Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to contract award is accordingly a matter solely for the commercial judgement of bidders.

UK Shared Business Services Ltd wishes to establish an agreement for use by the following UK public sector bodies (and any future successors to these organisations) UK Research and Innovation UK Shared Business Services Ltd are able to accept unstructured electronic invoicing.

The sourcing documents can be accessed using the instructions detailed in I.3

The sourcing documents can be accessed at: www.delta-esourcing.com. Access Code is: 24349H7BJW

Closing date and time for Bidder to request RFP documents: 04/01/2021 @ 10:00hrs BST

Closing date and time for Bidder to submit their response ('the deadline'): 04/01/2021 @ 11:00hrs BST

This contract has not been sub-divided into lots as there is only one delivery locations and therefore lots are not appropriate

Award information

Awarded date

28 January 2021

Contract start date

11 February 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Total value of contract

£0

This contract was awarded to 3 suppliers.

BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHTS LTD

Address

4 Matthew Parker Street
LONDON
SW1H 9NP
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 08567792

Value of contract

£0

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Attachments

Additional details

The tender is designed as a framework with a value capped at £450,000.00 excluding VAT. The value therefore is designed for multiple call offs from this framework.

TED award notice - https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:286273-2021:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0

The framework value has increased from £450,000.00 excluding VAT to £495,000.00 excluding VAT, Variation V1.

Basis Research Limited

Address

264 Banbury Road,
Oxford,
Oxfordshire
OX2 7DY

Reference

No reference - other

Value of contract

£0

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Attachments

Additional details

The tender is designed as a framework with a value capped at £450,000.00 excluding VAT. The value therefore is designed for multiple call offs from this framework.

TED award notice - https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:286273-2021:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0

The framework value has increased from £450,000.00 excluding VAT to £495,000.00 excluding VAT, Variation V1.

FRONTIER ECONOMICS LIMITED

Address

Mid City Place,71 High Holborn
LONDON
WC1V 6DA
GB

Reference

Companies House number: 03752719

Value of contract

£0

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Attachments

Additional details

The tender is designed as a framework with a value capped at £450,000.00 excluding VAT. The value therefore is designed for multiple call offs from this framework.

TED award notice - https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:286273-2021:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0

The framework value has increased from £450,000.00 excluding VAT to £495,000.00 excluding VAT, Variation V1.

About the buyer

Contact name

Research

Address

Polaris House
North Star Avenue
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Telephone

01793867005

Email

Research@uksbs.co.uk