Published date: 29 April 2025

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


Closing: 6 March 2025, 1pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis - 71241000

  • Feasibility study - 79314000

Location of contract

BS1 6AL

Value of contract

£80,000 to £100,000

Procurement reference

CF-0006000DWS000000ED3p2AG

Published date

29 April 2025

Closing date

6 March 2025

Closing time

1pm

Contract start date

7 April 2025

Contract end date

26 September 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

With circa 100,000 homes above or near to former mines in the West of England, the potential for heat from mines needs investigation. The principle for investing £1.66m of Green Recovery Fund (part of the MCA Investment Fund) was agreed at Committee in March 2023. Heat From Mines is an investigatory project funded by the MCA in partnership with SGC to scope out potential for an operational mine water heating scheme(s) in the region.

We are looking for providers to conduct five detailed desktop studies concurrently from February to June 2025. These will be in the West of England Combined Authority Area which includes Bristol City Council, South Gloucestershire Council and Bath & North East Somerset Council . The specific locations that the detailed desktop studies will be required to focus on will be determined by the project working group in January 2025 and specified in the full procurement phase from mid/late January 2025. Decisions will have been made by consideration of the output reports from two current phases of studies commenced between September to December 2024 and from an earlier detailed desktop study of South Gloucestershire from 2023.

The detailed desktop studies will build upon knowledge and reports from previous study phases to produce output reports. The detailed desk top study output reports will need to provide us with detailed understanding of mines studied, water quality, structural and environmental constraints, potential drilling targets, costs of potential drilling abstraction and reinjection boreholes, all associated risks and to help us determine whether and where follow-on potential drill testing stages can take place. The studies must consider both heating and cooling potential and identify whether inter seasonal storage is possible. We also require an evaluation of the economic and social benefits and constraints from potential mine water schemes.

Award information

Awarded date

4 April 2025

Contract start date

7 April 2025

Contract end date

26 September 2025

Total value of contract

£91,600

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

TownRock Energy

Address

36 St Andrews Square
Edinburgh
EH2 2AD EH2 2AD

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Darron Jones

Address

Rivergate House, 70 Redcliff Street, Redcliffe
Bristol
BS1 6AL
United Kingdom

Telephone

07436601482

Email

darron.jones@westofengland-ca.gov.uk