Energy and related services. Energy-management services. Building services. Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; Lighting. Lighting systems. Cooling and ventilation equipment. Boilers. Heat-recovery systems. Engineering works and construction works. Construction works for power plants and heating plants. Heating plant construction work. Cogeneration plant construction work. Operation of a power plant. Heating-system design services. Building and facilities management services. Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking to enter into a contract for energy management services.

The Trust is looking to work in partnership with a bidder who is capable of delivering guaranteed energy savings on a per kilowatt hour consumption basis for the duration of the contract, through either, designing, building, maintaining, funding, owning, managing and guaranteeing the services through a service based contract, delivered directly or through a third party, either as a sub-contractor, consortium, or a partnering arrangement.

Bidders will need a proven track record of delivering energy and or carbon emissions and consumption savings, through managing and optimising energy consumption and resources.

Bidders will need to have access to a variety of on or off balance sheet funding options where self-funding may be limited by the Trust. Further in-depth detail will be available at the "Invitation to Tender" Stage as part of the Tender document.

Independent third parties may be required to undertake monitoring, verification, strategy and long term review of the guarantees offered to the Trust.

The Trust intend to procure the provision of the energy management services as follows:

Phase 1

Following evaluation of PQQ submissions, a maximum of 5 bidders to be Invited to Tender (ITT) to provide a minimum guarantee on energy consumption on a per kilowatt hour basis and demonstrate how best to achieve the guarantee through a service based delivery model. Innovations from across the globe are expected.

Following evaluations and clarifications at ITT stage, the successful bidder will be awarded a contract which will include obligations to undertake a detailed investment grade audit/proposal to deliver the proposed energy saving guarantee on a per kilowatt basis within a predetermined timescale.

Phase 2

Following the successful completion of the investment grade audit/proposal to deliver the proposed energy saving guarantee the contract shall continue in accordance with the agreed service based delivery model(s) for their proposed duration. However, if the successful bidder has failed to complete the investment grade audit/proposal to deliver the proposed energy saving guarantee and/or failed to deliver the minimum guarantee required as part of Phase 1, the Trust reserves the right to terminate the contract without any liability at this initial stage.