Cambridgeshire Local Authorities - Energy Services and Project Delivery Contract

Tender description

The Contracting Authority is seeking a contractor to design and deliver energy efficiency, renewable energygeneration and storage projects across all of its asset types (schools, office buildings, rural estate, transportassets, waste assets, housing etc). This will include building energy efficiency projects, utility scale generationand storage projects and district heating schemes. There is a strong emphasis on both carbon reduction, inorder to support progress towards achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, and revenue generatingopportunities. Lot 1: The Contracting Authority is interested in securing a Partner to design and deliver energy efficiency, renewableenergy 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 administrativeboundaries,. The Service Provider may take a consortium approach if it does not have access to all the relevantexpertise within its own organisation. The Contracting Authority has experience of working with Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) since 2014.CCC has invested over £21 million in EPCs to date, with pipeline investments totalling a further £56milion. Theambition for this procurement is greater than ever as CCC and other local authorities have declared ClimateEmergencies. CCC has published a Climate Change and Environment Strategy including targets for reducingenergy consumption of CCC’s building stock, replacing heating in CCC owned and operated buildings with lowcarbon 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 candevelop new business models for projects. That team must be supported by senior managers willing to take riskand bring a culture of innovation and change. The successful contractor must provide a full range of engineering design, project management, constructionhealth & safety, energy market commercial and measurement & verification skills with appropriate qualificationsand registrations. Tenders will be required to provide CVs for the project team demonstrating the relevantexperience and qualifications. The contractor will be required to provide energy performance contracts for the majority of projects calledoff under the framework i.e. they will be required to guarantee energy savings/generation and back this upwith a Parent Company Guarantee or Performance Bond. In addition to reducing its direct carbon emissionsCambridgeshire County Council is committed to reducing its indirect carbon emissions by 50.4% by 2030relative to a 2018 baseline. The contractor will be required to demonstrate carbon emissions reductions in theiroperation and supply chain consistent with this trajectory. Where this is not achieved they will be required tooffset emissions to compensate for the shortfall.