CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Smart Living – Whole System Business Research Innovation for Decarbonisation - WBRID

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

Project:

Smart Living – Whole System Business Research Innovation for Decarbonisation (WBRID) based on Research & Development Pre-Procurement Principles

Brief:

Developing a Smart Industrial and Commercial Energy Platform Model Solutions to achieve Net Zero Outcomes.

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council are launching a Whole System Business Research Innovation for Decarbonisation (WBRID) pilot competition based upon Research and Development Pre-Commercial principles to identify innovative solutions which will support energy supply, demand and storage for commercial end users (and in the future domestic end users), across Blaenau Gwent and to work towards creating zero energy parks as a USP for Blaenau Gwent.

NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=106895

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

Project Phases

The competition will have two phases. Phase 1 is intended to show the technical feasibility of the proposed concept. The Council is seeking Specialist Tenderers, with the necessary skill set, experience, competence and capacity to submit their Innovative Solutions and Proposals to develop a Feasibility Study during Phase 1 of the project and potentially move into Phase 2 subject to budget provision next year. Details of the two phases are summarised below:

Phase 1 – Technical Feasibility

The Council intends to select up to a maximum of Four (4) submissions received, as evaluated by a Specialist Evaluation Panel, and each will be awarded a contract with a maximum value of £25,000 (excluding VAT) and given a fixed time period of 7 weeks to develop their delivery solutions. See Procurement Timetable.

Subject to suitability and availability of funding, at the conclusion of phase 1, it is the Council intension to progress a maximum of 2 solutions to phase 2 of the project.

Phase 2 – Smart Industrial and Commercial Energy Platform Development:

Phase 2 is a prototyping exercise, which develops the product to the stage where it is ready for market. It is expected that contract period for Phase 2 will be 12 months.

The potential contract value for Phase 2 may be up to £500,000 (£250,000 per bid) and subject to available funding and financial viability for the selected successful feasibility studies from Phase 1.

The cost of prototyping each initiative will be determined after the Authority’s Specialist Evaluation Panel has decided which of the initiatives it wants to take further under Phase 2 subject to available budgets.

The Tenderer is required to provide the costs and time of prototyping each of the initiatives in the Feasibility Report associated with Phase 1.

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

Responses must be submitted in accordance with the tendering instructions listed within the published Invitation to Tender (ITT).

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

ITT85249

4.3

Time Limits

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

This Procurement exercise is being run via the Authority's e-tendering portal Bravo Solutions (https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk).

All documentation has been uploaded to enable direct access following registration.

NB: You must download all documentation directly from the portal, tender documents will not be communicated by any other means.

E-Tender access information:

— Tenders must be uploaded to the EtenderWales (BravoSolution) portal by 12:00 noon Monday 25th January 2021.

How to find the ITT:

— Once logged in you must click on ‘ITT's Open to all Suppliers'.

— The E-tender references for this contract is ITT_85249.

— Click on the title to access summary details of the contract. If you are still interested in submitting a tender, click the ‘Express an Interest button'. This will move the ITT from the ‘Open to all Suppliers' area to the ‘My ITT's' on the home page.

— You will then see the full details of the ITT in the Qualification, Technical and Commercial envelopes along with any relevant documents in the ‘Attachments' area.

— Tenderers are required to provide responses to:

—the Selection Questionnaire within the Qualification Envelope

—the Method Statements within the Technical Envelope

—upload the requested Pricing information within the Commercial Envelope.

— Should you have any questions on the ITT, please use the ‘Messages' area to contact the buyer directly -

Do not contact the named person at the top of this notice.

Deadlines for submissions is 12 noon the 25th January 2021 with clarifications allowed until 5:00pm on Monday the 18th January 2021.

(WA Ref:106895)

Under the terms of this contract the successful supplier(s) will be required to deliver Community Benefits in support of the authority’s economic and social objectives. Accordingly, contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations. The Community Benefits included in this contract are:

It is likely that the client will incorporate Community Benefits clauses into Phase 2 of the project.

The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia bidding.

5.2

Additional Documentation

5.3

Publication date of this notice