Expired contract

Small World Consulting - Catapult budget 23/24

Details

Buyer: University of Sheffield
Supplier(s): Small World Consulting Ltd
Value: £60,190
Duration: 5 months
Topic: Carbon
Published: 7 November 2023
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

Since 2020, the AMRC has been working with Mike Berners-Lee and his team at Small World Consulting to develop: (i) an assessment of AMRC's readiness for the low carbon transition; (ii) a project classification tool so that all of AMRC's project can be assessed to determine the extent to which they are addressing the climate change emergency; (iii) a technology gap analysis to inform our strategic positioning in the drive to net zero; (iv) a clarified carbon target and net zero language review for our communication strategy. Work stream 2: Reviewing the current gaps in technology report to maintain strategic relevance and ensure that the AMRC can respond to the work needed to achieve a global low carbon transition. Work stream 3: Defining the decarbonisation targets for the AMRC, ensuring they are meaningful and realistic for our organisation, and supporting the sustainability language and messaging of the organisation to ensure greenwashing is avoided. We are now in a position to review the technology gap analysis, and define targets and language, to meet future business requirements that are linked to the development of the work provided by Small World Consulting over the last three years.

Timeline

Completed: Award published7 November 2023
Current notice
Completed: Award date8 November 2023
Completed: Contract expiry date31 March 2024

About the buyer

University of Sheffield is a higher education institution whose Procurement Office lets and manages contracts for its schools and departments. Tenders are run through the In-Tend portal, and where required on the Central Digital Platform. The university also buys through regional and national frameworks as a member of the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium, part of UKUPC. They cover catering, furniture, computing, laboratory supplies, postal services, domestic services, professional services and stationery. Once a contract is let, each school and department must buy from the contracted supplier. Lower-value purchases are handled by departments through quotation exercises.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Sheffield's contract awards have been in construction work, industrial machinery and laboratory and precision equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

24311800 · Carbon
71314300 · Energy-efficiency consultancy services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@university-of-sheffield.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@university-of-sheffield.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@university-of-sheffield.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@university-of-sheffield.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@university-of-sheffield.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@university-of-sheffield.gov