Energy Services and Project Delivery Contract – Cambridgeshire
The contracting authority is seeking a contractor to design and deliver energy efficiency, renewable energy generation and storage projects.
United Kingdom-Cambridge: Energy and related services
2020/S 078-185498
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Postal address: Shire Hall, Castle Hill
Town: Cambridge
NUTS code: UKH
Postal code: CB3 0AP
Country: United Kingdom
Contact person: Chris Nunn
E-mail: chris.nunn@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Telephone: +44 1223699250
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.lgss.co.uk/about/
I.1)Name and addresses
Postal address: PO Box 700
Town: Cambridge
NUTS code: UKH
Postal code: CB1 0JH
Country: United Kingdom
Contact person: Lynn Thomas
E-mail: Lynn.Thomas@cambridge.gov.uk
Telephone: +44 1223457831
I.1)Name and addresses
Postal address: Fenland Hall, County Road
Town: March
NUTS code: UKH
Postal code: PE15 8NQ
Country: United Kingdom
Contact person: Julie Robinson-Judd
E-mail: jrobinson-judd@fenland.gov.uk
Telephone: +44 1354622423
I.1)Name and addresses
Postal address: Pathfinder House, St Mary’s Street
Town: Huntingdon
NUTS code: UKH
Postal code: PE29 3TN
Country: United Kingdom
Contact person: Mark Houston
E-mail: mark.houston@huntingdonshire.gov.uk
Telephone: +44 1480388388
I.1)Name and addresses
Postal address: South Cambridgeshire Hall, Cambourne Business Park, Cambourne
Town: Cambridge
NUTS code: UKH
Postal code: CB23 6EA
Country: United Kingdom
Contact person: Alex Snelling-Day
E-mail: alex.snelling-day@scambs.gov.uk
Telephone: +44 7562435547
I.2)Information about joint procurement
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Cambridgeshire Local Authorities — Energy Services and Project Delivery Contract
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
The contracting authority is seeking a contractor to design and deliver energy efficiency, renewable energy generation and storage projects across all of its asset types (schools, office buildings, rural estate, transport assets, waste assets, housing, etc). This will include building energy efficiency projects, utility scale generation and storage projects and district heating schemes. There is a strong emphasis on both carbon reduction, in order to support progress towards achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and revenue generating opportunities. Further detail on scope is provided in the ITT.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
The contracting authority is interested in securing a partner to design and deliver energy efficiency, renewable energy generation and storage projects across all of its asset types (schools, office buildings, rural estate, transport assets, waste assets, housing, etc.), irrespective of whether they are within its administrative boundaries,. The service provider may take a consortium approach if it does not have access to all the relevant expertise within its own organisation.
The contracting authority has experience of working with Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) since 2014. CCC has invested over GBP 21 million in EPCs to date, with pipeline investments totalling a further GBP 56 million. The ambition for this procurement is greater than ever as CCC and other local authorities have declared Climate Emergencies. CCC has published a climate change and environment strategy including targets for reducing energy consumption of CCC’s building stock, replacing heating in CCC owned and operated buildings with low carbon heating by 2025 and reducing indirect emissions by 50.4 % by 2030.
We need to partner with a team of skilled and imaginative engineers and commercial managers that can develop new business models for projects. That team must be supported by senior managers willing to take risk and bring a culture of innovation and change.
The successful contractor must provide a full range of engineering design, project management, construction health and safety, energy market commercial and measurement and verification skills with appropriate qualifications and registrations. Tenders will be required to provide CVs for the project team demonstrating the relevant experience and qualifications.
The contractor will be required to provide energy performance contracts for the majority of projects called off under the framework i.e. they will be required to guarantee energy savings/generation and back this up with a Parent Company Guarantee or Performance Bond. In addition to reducing its direct carbon emissions Cambridgeshire County Council is committed to reducing its indirect carbon emissions by 50.4 % by 2030 relative to a 2018 baseline. The contractor will be required to demonstrate carbon emissions reductions in their operation and supply chain consistent with this trajectory. Where this is not achieved they will be required to offset emissions to compensate for the shortfall.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The contract may be renewed at the discretion of the contracting authority.
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
III.2.3)Information about staff responsible for the performance of the contract
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.6)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.3)Additional information:
This Framework is open for use by:
• Cambridgeshire County Council,
• Cambridge City Council,
• Fenland District Council,
• Huntingdonshire District Council,
• South Cambridgeshire District Council.
By way of access agreement this framework is also open to new customers in England seeking to utilise the framework on an independent third party basis including:
• any city, district, borough or other local authority;
• any school, academy, university or other educational establishment; and
• any Public Body outlined in either Part I or Part II of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) Order 1972. Details of these can be found at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/853/made
Parish councils and community land trusts may use the framework either by way of an access agreement or by a contracting authority calling off work on their behalf.
The contracting authority will levy access fees (as a percentage of contract value) from those joining by way of access agreements.
VI.4.1)Review body
Postal address: One Angel Square, Angel Street
Town: Northampton
Postal code: NN1 1ED
Country: United Kingdom
VI.4.3)Review procedure
The Council will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract is entered into. Such additional information should be requested from (refer to address in part I.1). If an appeal regarding the award of contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Chapter 6) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules, to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly. Where a contract has not been entered into the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the Court may order the ineffectiveness of a contract where serious breach have occurred in addition to any fine, the Court may instead provide for alternative penalties, either contract shortening, fines or both.
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: