Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-11-11
Buyer: Greater London Authority (GLA)
Country: UK
Contract type: Works
Procedure: Innovation partnership
CPV classification: 09310000 | 09320000 | 09330000: Solar energy | 24962000 | 31000000
Estimated value: 10000000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-12-11
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: This procurement process is being managed by Transport for London (‘TfL’) on behalf of the Greater London Authority (‘GLA’).
This process is conducted as an innovation partnership under Regulation 31 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
The GLA has identified the need for an innovative solution that cannot be met by what is available on the market: a scaleable performance assured standard ‘whole house’ net zero energy (‘NZE’) solution for retrofitting homes at an economic price point. This process aims at the development of that innovative solution; and the subsequent purchase of it under a framework agreement, provided that specified performance levels and maximum costs are met.
2) provide an effective route to market for pipeline projects from Housing Providers (as defined in II.2.4); and
The ‘whole house’ NZE retrofitting of homes referred to in II.1.4) will involve design and installation to meet an outcome-based specification with assured monitored performance. Solutions will require significant improvement in fabric thermal performance, on-site renewable energy generation and heating equipment, as required to achieve annual NZE consumption by some or all of those means. Specified comfort levels have to be achieved with a contractually guaranteed maximum amount of imported grid electricity. Offsite approaches are required, and non-disruptive installation completed in days on-site without residents having to move out. Homes will typically be fully insulated using offsite manufactured integrated fabric solutions, ‘energy pods’ providing low-carbon high efficiency heating and hot water, with PV generation.
This procurement process commences with a supplier selection questionnaire (‘SSQ’) through which a shortlist of 15 suitably qualified bidders will be generated. Those bidders will progress to the ITT stage.
The outcome of the ITT stage of this initial competition will be that (subject to sufficient bidders meeting the stated requirements) 10 providers (‘Solution Providers’) will be identified and selected to appear on a ranking list and participate in the ‘IPP Phase’.
During the IPP Phase, each solution provider appearing on the ranking list will be entitled to develop specific retrofit solutions for defined ‘Schemes’ for Housing Providers (as defined below) in 4 sequential stages (summarised below), subject to meeting the contractual conditions for moving to the next stage. Funding contributions will be made in accordance with the relevant contracts to help pay for such development.
Schemes will be allocated to solution providers in tranches, with the first tranche allocated at the end of the ITT stage.
Those solution providers who performed best in the initial competition will appear at the top of the ranking list and will have priority of choice in selecting the schemes from the first tranche. For further tranches, a detailed contractual allocation process will apply, again using the original ranking list.
For each Scheme, the IPP Phase will involve 4 stages: research and development (design); prototypes (retrofitting of circa 5 to 40 homes); pilot (c. 50 to 100 homes); and commercialise (c. 100 to 250 homes). The precise number of homes will vary between Schemes. Each solution provider will enter into an Innovation Partnership Contract with the relevant Housing Provider covering the 4 stages and the performance criteria and financial terms.
The final element of the process is the ‘Framework Phase’. Solution providers that have successfully completed all 4 stages of the IPP Phase for a scheme will, under a framework agreement, be entitled to bid, through mini-competitions, for further Schemes involving delivery of a works contract to implement the solutions (including capacity and know how) developed during the IPP Phase.
Any in-scope contracting authority (as defined in this notice at VI.3) is entitled to submit a scheme during the IPP Phase and to call-off works contracts during the IPP Phase. A ‘Housing Provider’ is defined by the procurement documents as an in-scope contracting authority that releases a scheme during the IPP Phase and/or framework phase.
The Housing Providers for the first tranche of schemes during the IPP Phase are currently anticipated to be:
It is currently anticipated that Housing Providers for further tranches of Schemes during the IPP Phase may include one, some or all of:

Eligibility requirements: Bidders wishing to participate should access the detailed procurement documents referred to in this contract notice, decide on their interest in and capacity and capability for delivering the services and/or works which are the subject matter of this contract notice and complete and submit the SSQ by the deadline date specified in section IV.2.2). Further instructions and guidance are included in the SSQ and other procurement documents.

Award value: 10000000000