National Buildings Database

Published date: 5 June 2023

Last edited date: 13 July 2023

This notice was replaced on 10 November 2023

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Awarded contract (published 10 November 2023)

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Contract summary

Industry

Research services - 73110000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£2,600,000 to £2,880,000

Procurement reference

tender_363052/1220172

Published date

5 June 2023

Closing date

21 July 2023

Closing time

2pm

Contract start date

28 August 2023

Contract end date

31 March 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.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Description

This is a contract for a research project to produce a national database of all buildings in the UK. This will involve using a data engineering methodology (piloted by a previously commissioned research project to be provided to the successful bidder) with targeted surveys across all sectors of the non-domestic building stock. A contractor will be procured to:

- Apply the prescribed methodology to combine existing data on buildings and energy use;

- Design and carry out targeted sector-specific surveys to fill gaps in existing data;

- Combine the existing data and surveys to deliver a fully populated national buildings database;

- Provide robust documentation, guidance and training on use of the database;

- Develop a method for updating the database using underlying existing data;

- Develop a method for generating synthetic samples from the database.

More information

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