UK Greenhouse gas Inventory improvement programme

Tender description

BEIS is seeking to procure services to deliver scientific, technical & digital improvements to the Greenhouse Gas Inventory System. We require: - Scientific/technical services which would take existing inventory methodologies using the latest available science to update these to improve the transparency, accuracy and completeness. - Technical/digital services to ensure methodologies in the inventory system use state-of-the-art software and existing software systems can be upgraded - A contractor with strong PPM expertise to ensure that this contract is delivered on time and to quality Lot 1: Our inventory meets domestic & international reporting requirements . A description of this system can be found at https://naei.beis.gov.uk/about/national-inventory-system and a full description of the methods used is available at https://naei.beis.gov.uk/reports/reports?report_id=1015 In order to allow a pipeline of R&D to underpin inventory improvements as we move to the 2050 net zero target, we require: • New inventory methodologies which estimate emissions from particular sectors with more accuracy, completeness & transparency • More reliable, robust and transparent inventory software, to support production of accurate & open inventory estimates We require - technical expertise in estimating GHG emissions from sectors, including land-use, industry, waste, energy [& agriculture]. - software expertise around the application of existing analytical tools (e.g. R, Python) to scientific problems, the development of models to process large datasets & SQL database expertise. - a contractor with strong PPM expertise to manage this work