Voluntary ex ante transparency notice
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
1 Victoria St
London
SW1H 0ET
UK
Telephone: +44 2072151732
E-mail: steve.loades@beis.gov.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.delta-esourcing.com
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Hy4Heat – WP7 Training Standards
Reference number: TRN: 2194/01/2020
II.1.2) Main CPV code
80531200
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Single tender action to contract with Energy and Utility Skills, the sector skills council responsible for National Occupational Standards (NOS), qualifications and apprenticeship frameworks for gas (upstream and downstream), to create a training standards framework to enable personnel working with hydrogen gas downstream of the ECV to acquire the required knowledge and skills to operate in a competent and safe way.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
231 800.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
Main site or place of performance:
UNITED KINGDOM.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) intends to appoint Energy and Utility Skills to develop an appropriate training standards framework to enable personnel working with hydrogen gas downstream of the emergency control valve to acquire the required knowledge and skills to operate in a competent and safe way.
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Negotiated procedure without prior publication
Justification for selected award procedure:
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason: absence of competition for technical reasons
Explanation:
(ii) competition is absent for technical reasons: Energy and Utilities Skills are the standards setting authority for the gas industry, with the role and remit for developing the UK standards, under the licence granted to them as a sector skills Council by the government through the UK Commission for employment and skills (a non-departmental public body). Therefore EUS are the only body able to carry out this work due to their singular authority and official remit to set training standards for the gas industry.
(iii) the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights: EUS is the standards setting body for the gas industry with the remit of setting National Occupational Standards; therefore they have the IP bound up with the existing standards and any additions made to them for the use of hydrogen. Ultimately, looking to appoint any other organisation to perform this function would undermine the integrity of the standards.
As per the justifications given above, there are no reasonable alternative suppliers to EUS for the development of a hydrogen gas training standards framework, due to the impartial and final authority this body has been afforded under their remit to set National Occupational Standards under the licence granted to them through the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
Section V: Award of contract/concession
V.2 Award of contract/concession
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract/concession
23/03/2020
V.2.2) Information about tenders
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Energy and Utilities Skills
03812163
Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road, Shirley
Solihull
B90 4BN
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the concession and main financing terms (excluding VAT)
Total value of the concession/lot:
231 800.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=484026554
GO Reference: GO-2020324-PRO-16233976
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
1 Victoria St
London
SW1H 0ET
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
24/03/2020