Industrial Decarbonisation Market Mechanisms Regulatory Support 24-28

Description

The Environment Agency’s Climate Change Trading and Regulatory Services Team (CCTRS) regulate and administer various UK Government and International climate change policies. We are seeking to put a suitable call off contract(s) for consultants with skills, knowledge and experience to support our operational activities over the next four years to maintain both our current operational activities and enable us to plan and deliver for the future. <br/><br/>"The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at https://defra-family.force.com/s/Welcome<br/><br/>Any questions, requests to participate or tender submissions must be submitted electronically via this portal." Lot Lot 1: Lot 1 - (a), (b) and (c) - Business as usual For Lot 1 our ‘business as usual’ activities, the work will be dependent on each regime. The main work areas include permitting, account opening and assessing reports from businesses such as energy data, emissions data, and annual reports. Detailed below is a summary of the types of activities we undertake, although this list is not exhaustive:<br/><br/>• Determination of New Permits, Underlying Agreements, Registrations and Applications, Offsetting Obligations.<br/>• Determination of subsequent Variations and Transfers Applications, Assess the eligibility of new facilities being added to agreements<br/>• Review annual reports, monitoring plans, methodology plans, improvement reports, licence applications.<br/>• Assessment of data submissions, process target period report submissions<br/>• Undertake due diligence checks and assessments<br/>• Respond to technical queries and produce technical guidance<br/>• Submission of data to meet UK and International requirements<br/><br/>Skills and expertise required:<br/><br/>We are looking for suppliers who can provide consultants that are qualified to a degree level (or have significant experience) in a relevant field and have experience of working with relevant sectors or organisations in one or more of the following areas; energy management, climate change regimes, other environmental regulation and permitting experience.<br/><br/>Value is estimated £9m across the 4 years, across all 6 contracts and only an estimation & not guaranteed. Lot 2: Lot 2 – ESOS Audits Lot 2 may be awarded up to two suppliers on the basis of a taxi ranking for ESOS audits. The rationale for two contracts is due to resilience in the market and the lack of suppliers who hold the relevant qualifications to carry this audit out. Therefore, it has historically and will continue to be awarded to two suppliers. This has worked well to date.<br/><br/>Skills and expertise required:<br/><br/>We are looking for suppliers who can provide consultants that are qualified to a degree level (or have significant experience) in a relevant field, have experience of working with relevant sectors, a high degree of knowledge of industrial processes and have experience of delivering detailed energy or emissions audits. For our ESOS audits, consultant must be an approved lead assessor for ESOS and have undertaken several ESOS compliance assessments for a range of companies in different sectors.<br/><br/>Value is estimated £9m across the 4 years, across all 6 contracts and only an estimation & not guaranteed. Lot 3: Lot 3 - Technical Advice Lot 3, where specific technical advice will be sought. For example, we might want to seek independent expertise to validate an operator’s request, we might need specific advice on a particular sector, or a particular process undertaken by an operator under any of our regimes, we might want independent advice on guidance we intend to publish.<br/><br/>Skills and expertise required:<br/><br/>We are looking for suppliers who can provide consultants that are qualified to a degree level (or have significant experience) in a relevant field, have the technical skills and experience of working with relevant operators and sectors and a high degree of knowledge of industrial processes and operations relevant to the regimes we regulate.<br/><br/>Value is estimated £9m across the 4 years, across all 6 contracts and only an estimation & not guaranteed. Lot Lot 1: Lot 1 - (a), (b) and (c) - Business as usual For Lot 1 our ‘business as usual’ activities, the work will be dependent on each regime. The main work areas include permitting, account opening and assessing reports from businesses such as energy data, emissions data, and annual reports. Detailed below is a summary of the types of activities we undertake, although this list is not exhaustive:<br/><br/>• Determination of New Permits, Underlying Agreements, Registrations and Applications, Offsetting Obligations.<br/>• Determination of subsequent Variations and Transfers Applications, Assess the eligibility of new facilities being added to agreements<br/>• Review annual reports, monitoring plans, methodology plans, improvement reports, licence applications.<br/>• Assessment of data submissions, process target period report submissions<br/>• Undertake due diligence checks and assessments<br/>• Respond to technical queries and produce technical guidance<br/>• Submission of data to meet UK and International requirements<br/><br/>Skills and expertise required:<br/><br/>We are looking for suppliers who can provide consultants that are qualified to a degree level (or have significant experience) in a relevant field and have experience of working with relevant sectors or organisations in one or more of the following areas; energy management, climate change regimes, other environmental regulation and permitting experience.<br/><br/>Value is estimated £9m across the 4 years, across all 6 contracts and only an estimation & not guaranteed. Lot 2: Lot 2 – ESOS Audits Lot 2 may be awarded up to two suppliers on the basis of a taxi ranking for ESOS audits. The rationale for two contracts is due to resilience in the market and the lack of suppliers who hold the relevant qualifications to carry this audit out. Therefore, it has historically and will continue to be awarded to two suppliers. This has worked well to date.<br/><br/>Skills and expertise required:<br/><br/>We are looking for suppliers who can provide consultants that are qualified to a degree level (or have significant experience) in a relevant field, have experience of working with relevant sectors, a high degree of knowledge of industrial processes and have experience of delivering detailed energy or emissions audits. For our ESOS audits, consultant must be an approved lead assessor for ESOS and have undertaken several ESOS compliance assessments for a range of companies in different sectors.<br/><br/>Value is estimated £9m across the 4 years, across all 6 contracts and only an estimation & not guaranteed. Lot 3: Lot 3 - Technical Advice Lot 3, where specific technical advice will be sought. For example, we might want to seek independent expertise to validate an operator’s request, we might need specific advice on a particular sector, or a particular process undertaken by an operator under any of our regimes, we might want independent advice on guidance we intend to publish.<br/><br/>Skills and expertise required:<br/><br/>We are looking for suppliers who can provide consultants that are qualified to a degree level (or have significant experience) in a relevant field, have the technical skills and experience of working with relevant operators and sectors and a high degree of knowledge of industrial processes and operations relevant to the regimes we regulate.<br/><br/>Value is estimated £9m across the 4 years, across all 6 contracts and only an estimation & not guaranteed.