The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) requires Technical Third Party Support to assist with the delivery of the Net-Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP). The objective of the NZIP portfolio is to facilitate delivery of the UK’s Net-Zero commitments, continuing to invest in climate science and energy innovation to reduce human impact on climate change. BEIS therefore intends to procure Support, Advisory and Engineering-related scientific and technical services to assist with the delivery of the portfolio.
This lot would provide BEIS the single point of contact for any new requirements, focusing TTPS coordination activities. The technical coordinator would be responsible for monitoring the delivery contractors of Lots 2-4, allocating and managing work pipelines, management reporting and performance reporting
This lot will allow for specialist expertise to provide social research and evaluation support and advice across the NZIP portfolio during new programme design/development and programme delivery. This will include:
•Evidence reviews (e.g. Literature review, Rapid Evidence Assessment)
•External stakeholder and public engagement (including qualitative focus groups)
•Customer, consumer, and behavioural insights
•Social research planning/advice
•Programme evaluation planning/advice (process and impact evaluation)
This lot will focus on the delivery of technical support to the following technical themes:
-Long Duration Energy Storage
-Industry & CCUS (including biomass conversion)
-Greenhouse Gas Removal
-Hydrogen & Fuel Switching
-Systems, networks and integration
-Energy markets and regulatory expertise
-Manufacturing expertise
This lot will focus on the delivery of technical support to the following technical themes:
-Hydrogen
-AI
-New build
-SMART and in-home energy management systems
-EEF – Energy Entrepreneurs Fund
-Disruptive Technologies
This lot will focus on the delivery of technical support to the following technical themes.
-Bioenergy
-Nuclear
-Floating Offshore Wind
-Onshore wind
-Manufacturing expertise
-Biomass boilers
-Solar Heating
-Hydrogen Supply
-Heat Pumps + Retrofit
-Manufacturing expertise
-Heat distribution