Contract for a Community Energy Programme.
Contract notice
Supplies
Section I: Contracting authority
NEPO
NEPO, Keelman House, Fifth Avenue Business Park, Team Valley Trading Estate
For the attention of: Marie Cairns
NE11 0XA Gateshead
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1914335975
E-mail:
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.gateshead.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: www.nepoportal.org
Section II: Object of the contract
Purchase
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: The initial role out for this programme, is for Durham Green LLP, a collective energy procurement scheme which is a Limited Liability Partnership formed by a group of housing associations in County Durham. The partners, which between them provide approximately 40 000 homes, are:- Dale and Valley Homes, Cestria Community Housing, Derwentside Homes, Durham County Council, Livin and East Durham Homes
The Contract will be made available to all NEPO Members. A list of member organisations is available at www.nepoportal.org
The Council intends to make this Contract available for use by all UK contracting authorities including but not limited to Government Departments and their Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, NHS Bodies, Local Authorities, Emergency Services, Educational Establishments, Registered Charities who have a need to purchase the above supplies.See the following websites for details:-
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/index.htm
http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml
http://www.schoolswebdirectory.co.uk/localauthorities.php
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/unicoll/
http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AcuteTrustListing.aspx
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/A-ZOfCentralGovernment/index.htm
http://www.police-information.co.uk/police-directory
http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk
https://www.buy4wales.co.uk/UsefulResources/buy4wales.html
http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/recruitment/departments-and-accredited-ndpbs
Access to the contract will be subject to the approval of NEPO. This may incur a fee.Any organisation able to access this Contract will be referred to in the documentation as a Contracting Authority.
NUTS code UK
Duration of the framework agreement
Duration in years: 2Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement
Estimated value excluding VAT:Range: between 30 000 000,00 and 500 000 000,00 GBP
This programme is primarily to help achieve an average 20 % reduction in the Customers' annual energy bills, through lower tariffs. Its aspirations are to create funds to support the marketing and administration of the programme and to support a range of local energy efficiency investments in education, jobs and energy infrastructure projects through Community Energy Champions. The Community Energy Champions will promote behaviour change to reduce energy usage. The programme also aims to roll out the installation of Smart Meters to all Customers who commit to the programme.
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Description of these options: The inital contract is for 24 months commencing with an option to extend for a further 1 x 12 months.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Description of particular conditions: As specified within the tender documentation.
As specified within the tender documentation.
As specified within the tender documentation.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As specified within the tender documentation.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
As specified within the tender documentation.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
As specified within the tender documentation.
Section IV: Procedure
Payable documents: no
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes
Additional information about authorised persons and opening procedure: Representatives of the Legal Department
Section VI: Complementary information
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 24-48 Months
This tender can be accessed via the NEPO eTender system at http://www.nepoportal.org
Suppliers wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and submit a tender through the NEPOeTender system. If not already registered, candidates should register on the NEPO eTender system at http://www.nepoportal.org. Any queries regarding the procurement process or tender documents must be raised noless than 4 days before the the tender return date, through the Q&A; section on the NEPO eTender system. Tenderers should note there will be ongoing engagement with other contracting bodies as identified in section II.1.2 to encourage uptake of this agreement. For any support in submitting your expression of interest or tenderresponse please contact the NEPO Portal Helpdesk at +44 1914335949 or . There are a number of get help guides available on the portal. Reading these will assist the supplier in completing and submitting their responses.
Gateshead Council
Legal Department Gateshead Civic Centre Regent Street Tel: +44 1914333000 URL: www.nepoportal.org BODY RESPONSIBLE FOR
NE8 1HH Gateshead
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1914333000
Body responsible for mediation procedures
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