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Tender description

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) seeks to award a contract to British Standards Institute (BSI) for undertaking Publicly Available Specification (PAS) standards for the installation of energy efficiency measures in non-domestic buildings. To support the Clean Growth Strategy BEIS has publicly committed to exploring the requirements for a PAS standard for energy efficiency in the non-domestic sector and that we will consider modelling a non-domestic PAS on the new domestic standard (PAS 2035: 2019). Quality standards for the installation of energy efficiency measures are currently set out in a PAS standard covering both domestic and non-domestic energy efficiency installation. However, when previously updating these standards to align them with an Each Home Counts review recommendation, a decision was taken by industry and BEIS to remove the non-domestic element and address that at a later stage. This work will be undertaken through a single tender action by the British Standards Institute (BSI). BSI is the only organisation that can provide the required services as they are the only national standards body with legal responsibility for maintaining standards in the UK. The new domestic standards were introduced in June 2019 with a transition period running until January 2021. At the end of the transition period, unless this work is undertaken, there will be no PAS covering non-domestic energy efficiency installations. The continuation of PAS standards for the non-domestic sector will set an agreed level of quality and good practice and help to maintain and build trust in the market products and services.