Published date: 19 November 2024

This notice was replaced on 21 February 2025

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 21 February 2025)

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.


Contract summary

Industry

  • Fraud audit services - 79212400

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands

Value of contract

£495,000

Procurement reference

tender_468961/1426859

Published date

19 November 2024

Closing date

10 December 2024

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

30 January 2025

Contract end date

30 June 2025

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.

This is an accelerated procedure.

Justification

Reg 27
(4) Where contracting authorities have published a prior information notice which was not itself used as a means of calling for competition, the minimum time limit for the receipt of tenders as laid down in paragraph (2) may be shortened to 15 days, provided that both of the following conditions are fulfilled:-
(a)the prior information notice included all the information required for the contract notice in section I of part B of Annex V to the Public Contracts Directive insofar as that information was available at the time the prior information notice was published;
(b)the prior information notice was sent for publication between 35 days and 12 months before the date on which the contract notice was sent.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This notice is to alert bidders to a call for competition for the DESNZ; ECO4 Fraud and Error Assurance.

The specification and tender documents are published on the DESNZ Jaggaer portal https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/088750560193450A2C5E

The maximum value and length for this contract is £495,000 exc VAT over 5 months. However, bidders are encouraged to highlight where efficiencies in time and cost can be made in their bid.

DESNZ is seeking to commission a comprehensive review of fraud and error risks in ECO4, and of the capability of current delivery systems for managing those risks. The department wants to better understand the extent to which the scheme is providing support to the correct households and properties to enable evidence-based future policy design and best practice in delivery management.

The awarded supplier will be expected to provide all the necessary resource and capability, and have sufficient capacity to manage the work required including, but not limited, to the following key areas:
- Data and document analysis.
- Industry knowledge, specifically retrofit, low carbon heating and energy efficiency installation through the construction industry.
- Understanding in similar/comparable scheme/project delivery. Familiarity with government schemes and ideally energy supplier obligation schemes would be beneficial.
- Ability to conduct a low number of on-site audits of domestic properties and installation of funded measures (with national cover) to validate hypotheses around risks.
- Gathering and analysing relevant information, data, accounts, audits, project management artefacts and other relevant information sources.
- Business analysis (including understanding structure, policies and operations, identifying business need, determining solutions) and process modelling.
- Fraud management, analysis, detection and prevention.
- Working knowledge and experience of application of Counter Fraud Functional Standard (GovS 013) requirements.
- Interview design and analysis.
- Ability to recognise issues and their potential and ranked impact to make actionable recommendations both through regular and ad-hoc collaborative meetings and in final reporting with DESNZ

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

ECO4 Fraud and Error Assurance

  • Future opportunity
  • Published 9 October 2024

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Links

About the buyer

Address

3-8 Whitehall Place
London
SW1A 2EG
England

Email

hthcommercial@energysecurity.gov.uk