Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-06-06
Buyer: Welsh Government
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71314000: Energy and related services | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services
Estimated value: 10000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Welsh Government is developing a new energy service to provide the technical, commercial and project management support needed to deliver energy and resource efficiency and renewable energy projects that contribute to our energy and decarbonisation targets.
This new service will bring together a number of existing strands of work, that currently exist under the local energy service and Green Growth Wales areas of work.
The Welsh Government Energy Service will provide delivery support including pipeline development and opportunity identification, technical feasibility, commercial, procurement and project management expertise to existing and new clients of the local energy and Green Growth Wales services in the areas of energy and resource efficiency, and renewable energy. The Welsh Government Energy Service however is expected to be flexible enough to respond to new opportunities as they arise.
This support includes scoping opportunities, identifying projects, and supporting clients to take appropriate strategic projects through to delivery. A number of existing functions are not included within this framework, and the successful bidders will be required to work with them to ensure delivery: local energy investment fund, Salix finance, invest to Save Green Growth and Re:fit Cymru (or any replacements of those services that come into existence during the life of this framework). Outside of this service, other support will continue to be provided through the Rural Development Programme and Business Wales. The successful bidder will be expected to work effectively alongside these.
The Welsh Government Energy Service will operate across the sectors previously supported by the local energy and public sector services. Although the needs of these sectors are different, key functions are similar between them:
A project bank account will operate on this framework and is required to adhere to the minimum requirements detailed in the Welsh Fair Payment Policy. Payment for suppliers outside the project bank account must comply with the Welsh Fair Payment Policy.
It is anticipated that the Welsh Government Energy Service will commence in April 2018. Some functions may rely on a transition period from existing support operations, and so may not begin immediately. The value of call off contract will be dictated by the availability of funding. The estimated value for the full framework term is 10 000 000 GBP.
Whilst this is not a joint procurement, the following organisations may use the framework agreement throughout its term:
— Welsh Ministers, their agencies, sponsored and statutory bodies and other contracting authorities funded by them, whether or not they operate independently of Welsh Ministers, including:
— Local authorities in Wales their agencies, companies and limited liability partnerships or other corporate entities wholly or partly owned by or controlled by and any county and county borough, city, community or other council or local authority in Wales,
— NHS Health Boards in Wales, NHS Trusts in Wales, special health authorities in Wales, community health councils in Wales, the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and board of community health councils and any other contracting authorities operating within or on behalf of the NHS in Wales,
— higher and further education bodies in Wales, including colleges, community colleges and universities, WEA Cymru and Colleges Wales,
— One Voice Wales (town & community councils) and town & community councils in Wales (albeit the notice does refer to community under local authorities),
Please note award value published in this notice is the estimated value for the full 4 years framework agreement.


Winner: Eenergy Saving Trust
Award value: 10000000
Number of bids: 4