Published date: 24 January 2017

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: 17 February 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and experimental development services - 73100000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£50,000

Procurement reference

SS/0117

Published date

24 January 2017

Closing date

17 February 2017

Contract start date

27 February 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2017

Contract type

Not applicable

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The CCC indicator framework
The CCC monitors progress towards meeting carbon budgets and the 2050 target using an indicator framework, first set out in our October 2009 Progress Report to Parliament. This framework contains future trajectories for a range of measurable quantities linked to UK emissions:
• Headline indicators (greenhouse gas emissions, emissions intensity and energy demand);
• Implementation indicators for specific measures (e.g. additional low-carbon power generation capacity, purchases of electric cars, roll-out of loft insulation);
• Forward indicators to measure progress in advance of implementation (e.g. power generation investments at planning and construction stages);
• Policy milestones for an appropriate framework enabling future implementation of measures (e.g. legislation of new efficiency targets for cars).
The full set of current indicators across the main sources of emissions is available in technical annexes here: https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/meeting-carbon-budgets-2016-progress-report-to-parliament/.

Our indicators follow our current best projection of the technologies and behaviours required to cost-effectively meet carbon budgets and the 2050 target. However, there is uncertainty over the rates at which technologies will develop, their future costs, and how people will change their behaviour. Analysis of the required changes is also more developed in some areas than others. This means some sectors and measures have more detailed indicator sets than others. It also means indicators are not prescriptive (carbon budgets could be met by underperforming in some indicators, while outperforming others) nor exhaustive.
We are currently updating our indicators in advance of our 2017 Progress Report, to reflect:
• Updated CCC scenarios (available at https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/the-fifth-carbon-budget-the-next-step-towards-a-low-carbon-economy/) which informed the level of the fifth carbon budget, legislated by Parliament last July.
• Our October report on UK Climate Action following the Paris Agreement (available at https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/uk-action-following-paris/). A key additional conclusion was the need for a Government strategy to develop options for removing greenhouse gases from the air.

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Bids should be sent in time in time for receipt by 1pm on 17 February.

About the buyer

Contact name

Steve Smith

Address

7 Holbein Place
London
SW1W 8NR
England

Telephone

020 7591 6123

Email

stephen.smith@theccc.gsi.gov.uk