II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UK

Main site or place of performance:

United Kingdom.

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

The United Kingdom Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) wishes to appoint a contractor to undertake the maintenance and support for their National Household Model (NHM) to ensure the NHM can be accessed and used effectively by DECC analysts over 2016-19.

DECC works to make sure the UK has secure, clean, affordable energy supplies and promote international action to mitigate climate change. In pursuit of this, the Government has committed to statutory Carbon Budgets which must be met to a specific timetable. It is DECC's responsibility to develop and monitor the UK strategy for meeting these budgets. As part of this commitment, there is an extensive range of economic, scientific and social models that are used to analyse the effects of policy interventions across all sectors of the economy.

The primary analytical model for the domestic sector is the National Household Model (NHM) which has been under continuous development and use since February 2014. The current version has the functionality to model DECC's main thermal energy efficiency and fuel poverty policies: Energy Company Obligation (private rented sector extension), Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and Affordable Warmth. It is anticipated that the application will be extended to incorporate the functionality to model other low carbon and renewable heat policies as and when necessary.

Written primarily in Java with some smaller associated programs written in R, the NHM is open-source and can be downloaded from public Github repositories as specified in the Invitation to Tender. There is a user community within DECC of 10-15 people from the policy and analytical professions who require support in both scenario development and creation of new functionality in response to a changing and challenging policy landscape. The proposed contract covers technical maintenance of the model, testing and integration of third party improvements, user support in terms of scenario coding, documentation and training as well as small-scale development work. The supplier must provide support in a timely manner to allow development of policies to combat climate change and comply with our statutory obligations.

The Department invites tenders from competent organisations to supply the services described in the Invitation to Tender. The final deadline for all applications is 24.6.2016.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

II.2.6) Estimated value

Value excluding VAT: 133 000.00  GBP

II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

Duration in months: 36

This contract is subject to renewal: No

II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited

II.2.10) Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: No

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No

II.2.14) Additional information

If you wish to take part in this procurement please register on the BIP solutions web site to receive the tender documents. Send your completed Proposal to Roger Lampert at address stipulated in the ‘Who to Contact’ section.

Please submit your proposal to the web site, in addition to e-mail your proposal by the deadline of Friday, 24.6.2016, 16:00 to: roger.lampert@decc.gsi.gov.uk Please also send 3 hard copies of your proposal and declarations by the tender deadline addressed to Roger Lampert, Area 6D, DECC, 3 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2AW. Envelopes/packages should bear no reference to the tenderer by name and must be clearly marked as ‘Tender’.

Tenders will be received up to the time and date stated and not considered after the deadline. DECC reserves the right to halt the procurement process and to not award a contract. DECC will not be held liable for recovery of costs from unsuccessful bids if a contract is not awarded. All costs will be borne by the bidding organisations. If a contract is created it will be upon DECC Standard Terms and Conditions, which are available on Contracts Finder with this notice.

For questions on the procurement process or if you require further information concerning the tender process, or the nature of the proposed contract, email: roger.lampert@decc.gsi.gov.uk All questions must be submitted by Monday, 6.6.2016. Should questions arise during the tendering period, which in our judgement are of material significance, we will publish these questions with our formal reply by Monday, 13.6.2016 and circulate — unnamed — to all organisations that have expressed an interest in bidding. All contractors should then take that reply into consideration when preparing their own bids. Please refer to the ITT for more details on the indicative timetable of this tender exercise.

To apply for this work log on to: www.delta-esourcing.com and register your details. Access Code: N5UV583T45.

Contract Reference: 203655831.

Department of Energy and Climate Change

Area 6D, 3 Whitehall place

London

E18 2BA

UK

Telephone: +44 3000685019

E-mail: roger.lampert@decc.gsi.gov.uk