Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-16
Buyer: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
Country: IE
Region: IRELAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71314300: Energy-efficiency consultancy services | 71356300
Estimated value: 250000 EUR
Submission deadline: 2016-04-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: The objective of Lot 1 of the Request for Tender is to identify a qualified organisation for the provision of expert strategic and programme development services to SEAI in the delivery of the SEC Programme of activities.
Appointment: One Service Provider with sufficient capacity to provide 110 days per year. This is an estimate for support required, and the actual support required will be demand-led and determined by actual requirements of the programme and the rate of programme take up and development.
A core aspect of the SEC Network will be to share knowledge and build capacity within communities. SEAI will use electronic media as much as possible to share this information, and connect Ireland as one virtual SEC.
SECs will have opportunities to promote their successes through local, national and European award/ merit programmes, where these programmes are well established at a European level. SEAI would like to develop national award/ merit programmes with respect to SECs, which will promote Ireland's SECs. SEAI's SEC Programme is of interest to other countries who are working to develop the SEC or Smart Cities/ Community concept. SEAI will collaborate with organisations such as Covenant of Mayors and the EU Smart Cities Platform to disseminate information on the SEC Programme.
The appointed service provider will be required to visit the exemplar SECs and SEAI offices for regular meetings and site visits.
Task 24 poses that a better understanding of the human aspect of energy use, including behavioural and societal drivers and barriers and external and internal contexts, will greatly improve the uptake of energy efficiency and DSM policies and programmes.
Based on work already carried out in Task 24 to date, the IEA DSM programme has created a different ‘model of understanding’ of the energy system and its actors that offers a pragmatic approach proposed to further improve the co-creation of knowledge, learning, sharing and translation into practice among practitioners in the energy field. SEAI is joining the task at this point.
The main objective of this Task is to take good theory into practice to allow Behaviour Changers from government, industry, intermediaries, research and the third sector to:
— Develop the top 3 DSM priorities to identify the most (politically, technologically, economically and societally) appropriate DSM themes on which to focus.
— Identify and engage countries' networks in the 5 Behaviour Changers sectors for at least one of the top 3 DSM themes to co-create their Behaviour Changer Framework to collectively work on this problem.
— Use and test a Collective Impact Approach to develop shared methodologies, guidelines and a common ‘language’ based on narratives to aid Behaviour Changers' decision-making of how to choose the best models of understanding behaviour and theories of change and how to best measure the many multiple benefits of energy efficiency and DSM.
— Standardise how to evaluate behaviour change programmes ‘Beyond kWh’ and ‘Beyond Energy’ including multiple benefits analysis.
— Collate national learnings into an overarching (international) story to understand, compare and contrast the different behaviour change approaches, risks and opportunities and which recommendations can be universally applied.
SEAI requires a service provider to provide support in the development and implementation of Task 24 for Ireland.