CR20116 — Energy and Climate Change Behavioural Science Framework

Tender description

UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) on behalf of The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), wishes to establish a framework for the provision of energy and climate change behavioural science services. UK SBS is managing this procurement process in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) (the ‘Regulations’). The duration of this framework will be 26 months (from award till the 31 March 2023). It is intended that there will be 3 suppliers awarded to this framework. These awarded suppliers will be ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd based of the scores awarded from this completion of this procurement. See Section I.3 for access to procurement documentation. UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) will be using the Delta eSourcing Portal for this procurement. To register on the Delta eSourcing portal please use the link https://uksbs.delta-esourcing.com and follow the instructions to register. Access code: 24349H7BJW Lot 1: UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) on behalf of The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), wishes to establish a framework for the provision of energy and climate change behavioural science services. UK SBS is managing this procurement process in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as may be amended from time to time) (the ‘Regulations’). The duration of this framework will be 26 months (from award till the 31 March 2023). It is intended that there will be 3 suppliers awarded to this framework. These awarded suppliers will be ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd based of the scores awarded from this completion of this procurement. This RFP sets out details of the contract and expectations of any successful supplier. Background: Behavioural science provides vital insight regarding the responses of citizens, consumers, businesses, and other groups to government policies. Many energy and climate change policies particularly require, and indeed encourage, individuals to change their behaviour in response to incentives, regulation, and other measures — behavioural insights can help to maximise the impacts of these. Insights from behavioural science are important to ensure that proposed policies, market incentives, and other interventions will elicit the desired response from consumers and businesses. In addition, advice from behavioural scientists could help to improve policy development and maximise the effectiveness of policy interventions. At present, the pace of policy work in a number of energy and climate change teams is rapid, particularly in light of the context of the economic recovery from Covid-19, in which BEIS is rapidly developing policies to stimulate clean growth to aid this recovery. There are also a number of policy areas related to net zero and fuel poverty that are of high priority for BEIS (e.g. heat, energy efficiency policies, smart technologies) and rely upon behavioural change – indeed, the Committee on Climate Change estimate that over 60 % of the emissions reduction required to reach net zero will need some form of behaviour change. One key challenge (especially within the current context) is ensuring behavioural science insights are taken into account at the right point within the policy development process. A Framework with fast paced call-off contract awards will enable behavioural science evidence to be gathered and disseminated rapidly, maximising impact on policy development. There are also a number of ad hoc behavioural evidence needs that can emerge at short notice. In addition, many opportunities to apply behavioural science expertise (e.g. applying behavioural science techniques to interrogate and improve policy proposals) are also for smaller behavioural science tasks which do not warrant the disproportionate amount of time/resources taken to procure them. This framework is Intended to enable BEIS to gain behavioural science insight within an appropriate timeframe to feed into policy development, while minimising the resources required to commission this work. Overall, we anticipate this contract will lead to greater utilisation of behavioural science insight within the development of energy and climate policy, helping to improve their effectiveness and uptake by the public and businesses.