Delivery of the Smart Energy Network Demonstrator

Tender description

The Keele University Smart Energy Network Demonstrator (SEND) will be Europe’s only at scale R&D facility of mixed energy vector supply and demand in a real-world living laboratory setting. The SEND will be part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Programme 2014- 2020 and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The demonstrator will be delivered under a single owner / operator model across power, gas, heat, water, waste and telecom utilities to provide a real community based demonstrator. The SEND will provide real world demand across domestic, commercial and industrial end users at the scale of a small town of 5,000 residents and a working population of 12,000. The demonstrator will provide a test bed for new technologies, enable demonstration, business models and behavioural studies. This tender is for the contractor to; (i) complete the final demonstrator design; (ii) to upgrade the existing utility network; (iii) removal of old utility infrastructure where required; (iv) the construction or refurbishment of new utility infrastructure and; (v) introduce and upgrade the control system for the SEND. Provided that all bidders invited to participate in the tender process agree subject to Reg.29 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015, the University reserves all rights to shorten the timescales for receipt of tenders to 10 days. The University reserves all rights in this competitive procedure with negotiation for it to take place in successive stages in order to reduce the number of tenders to be negotiated by applying the award criteria specified in the contract notice.