Published date: 27 March 2017

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


Closing: 21 November 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and experimental development services - 73100000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£75,000

Procurement reference

TRN 1222/09/2016

Published date

27 March 2017

Closing date

21 November 2016

Contract start date

4 January 2017

Contract end date

30 September 2017

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Direct award

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

BEIS requires evidence based analytical and technical studies on State of the Art and next generation capture technologies in order to inform future innovation spending programmes and to shape the future policy direction for capture technologies in the Power and Energy Intensive Industries (EIIs) respectively. The contract required extension to include evidence gathering on biomass CCS (the original ITT scope included the prospect of a biomass benchmark but this wasn't deliverable within the original £150k.

More information

Additional text

• The original contract start and end dates were: 04/01/2017 to 30/09/2107
• The original value of the contract was: £150,000
• This is the first variation
• No change to contract end date
• The new contract value: £225,000 (increase of 50%)
• The reason for the variation: To include evidence gathering on biomass CCS
• Original ITT scope included prospect of a biomass benchmark but this wasn't deliverable within the original £150k.

The option of competitive tendering was deemed not desirable because:
o Having two contractors, one looking at CCS and one at BECCS, would give a significant risk that the benchmarks will not be consistent and comparable between the two studies. Consequently BEIS could not compare the studies to formulate evidence-based policy on CCS and BECCS, therefore competition is absent for technical reasons.

Award information

Awarded date

16 March 2017

Contract start date

17 March 2017

Contract end date

30 September 2017

Total value of contract

£75,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

AMEC Foster Wheeler Energy Limited

Address

Booths Park, Chelford Road, Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 8QZ

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

3 Whitehall Place
London
SW1A 2AW
England

Email

nick.bevan@beis.gov.uk