Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-06-18
Buyer: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
Country: IE
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 38221000 | 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services | 71356000 | 72212461 | 73000000
Estimated value: 1200000 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: Establishment of 8 Multi-Party Framework for the Provision of Expert Analytical Services in Support of SEAI’s Low Carbon Technologies Team
This RFT was to invite proposals from suitably qualified services providers to provide expert services in support of SEAI’s Low Carbon Technologies Team. This RFT was issued with the objective of concluding a total of eight frameworks to establish frameworks of experts comprising categories or ‘Lots’, as follows:
Lot 8: Provision of Training and Support to Public and Professional Bodies (in adopting SEAI Best Practice Methods).
SEAI will draw upon the policy analyst and researcher experts to undertake several diverse tasks to include the following:
1. Policy research (including reviews of published literature and provision of expertise) with a focus on driving uptake for low carbon technologies (including wind, bioenergy technologies, solar PV, heat pumps, hydroelectric) and energy efficiency measures.
4. Cost-benefit analysis of policies and measures including analysis of their impacts on a range of energy sector stakeholders (bill-payers, operators of both thermal and renewable plant, energy suppliers etc.). Policies and measures to be analysed will include a broad range of energy efficiency and renewable energy technology and policy options related to the development of a sustainable energy system (supply and demand) for Ireland.
5. Advising on energy sector financing, including project finance, innovative finance mechanisms for energy efficiency, and financial instruments for supporting community renewable energy.
6. Providing analytical and technical expertise to support the evaluation of projects received under the SEAI RD&D programme.
SEAI will draw upon the behavioural science and counterfactual impact evaluation specialists to undertake several diverse tasks to include the following:
1. Review of proposed lab/field experimental designs (Quasi-experimental and Randomised Evaluations) of behaviour change interventions for quality assurance purposes.
2. Review of completed analysis of results from quasi-experimental and/or randomised lab/field evaluations of behaviour change interventions for quality assurance purposes.
3. Advice and assistance in the design of large scale field behaviour change interventions which involve counterfactual impact evaluations (Quasi-experimental and/or Randomised Designs).
4. Provision of analytical and/or strategic expertise pertinent to the assessment of solutions that enable technical and other barriers to market uptake to be overcome.
1. Collection (via statistical representative surveys), collation, interpretation and presentation of high quality data relating to, inter alia; energy use at sectoral level; energy end-use profiles; energy user attitudes to energy, energy policy, incentives etc.; energy using technology up-take/diffusion; building conditions. This will often require the use of statistically significant/representative samples to ensure insights from new data are relevant at the sector and/or national level and for the calibration of assumptions in modelling of energy use.
2. Innovative use of existing data to present clear messages and insights relating to energy supply and use in Ireland, with a view to influencing behaviour (purchasing decisions, energy using activities etc.).


Winner: Element Energy Ltd
Award value: 1200000
Number of bids: 26