Awarded contract

Provision of Economic Consultancy Support for a new Irish Water Trade Effluent Charging Policy

Details

Buyer: Commission for Regulation of Utilities
Supplier(s): Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA)
Topic: Public utilities
Published: 15 February 2022
Source: ie:e_tenders

Tender description

The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (“CRU”) is Ireland’s independent energy and water regulator. The CRU’s mission is to protect the public interest in Water, Energy and Energy Safety. The CRU is guided by four strategic priorities that sit alongside the core activities we undertake to deliver on the public interest. In July 2019, the CRU published its decision on Irish Water’s Non-Domestic Tariff Framework which will apply to Irish Water’s non-domestic customers . This Framework will introduce a harmonised suite of tariffs for non-domestic water and wastewater customers on 1st October 2021. Developing enduring TE charging proposals was originally within the scope of the Non-Domestic Tariff Framework. However, Irish Water informed the CRU that it did not have sufficient data on TE discharges to propose an enduring charging policy at that time. Therefore, the CRU decided that Irish Water maintain the existing Local Authority TE charging arrangements for an interim period as Irish Water had insufficient cost evidence at the time to propose an enduring policy for charging TE discharges. Irish Water still does not have sufficient data to generate enduring TE charging proposals. However, the CRU is of the view that it would not be beneficial to wait for greater cost and discharge data to be available to Irish Water as this may take a number of years for Irish Water to gather. The CRU therefore is considering a number of options to develop interim TE charging arrangements that could be implemented in the near term, that is, until Irish Water has greater cost and discharge data (and the enduring arrangements can be implemented). The high-level approach to the project is as follows: 1) Consult on the future (enduring) and interim TE arrangements; 2) Decide on interim TE arrangements and specific interim TE charge levels; 3) Assessment of how well the enduring and interim TE charging arrangements meet the tariff principles.

Timeline

Completed: Award published15 February 2022
Current notice
Completed: Award date15 February 2022

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Relevant CPV codes

65000000 · Public utilities
65100000 · Water distribution and related services
65110000 · Water distribution
65111000 · Drinking-water distribution
65120000 · Operation of a water-purification plant
65121000 · Water demineralisation services
65122000 · Water desalination services
65123000 · Water softening services
65130000 · Operation of water supplies
73000000 · Research and development services and related consultancy services
73100000 · Research and experimental development services
73110000 · Research services
73120000 · Experimental development services
73200000 · Research and development consultancy services
73210000 · Research consultancy services
73220000 · Development consultancy services
73300000 · Design and execution of research and development
79300000 · Market and economic research; polling and statistics
79310000 · Market research services
79400000 · Business and management consultancy and related services
79410000 · Business and management consultancy services
79411000 · General management consultancy services
79411100 · Business development consultancy services
79412000 · Financial management consultancy services
79415000 · Production management consultancy services
79415200 · Design consultancy services
79417000 · Safety consultancy services
90000000 · Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services
90400000 · Sewage services
90410000 · Sewage removal services
90420000 · Sewage treatment services
90430000 · Sewage disposal services
90440000 · Treatment services of cesspools
90450000 · Treatment services of septic tanks
90460000 · Cesspool or septic tank emptying services
90470000 · Sewer cleaning services
90480000 · Sewerage management services
90481000 · Operation of a sewage plant
90490000 · Sewer survey and sewage treatment consultancy services
90491000 · Sewer survey services
90492000 · Sewage treatment consultancy services
90500000 · Refuse and waste related services
90510000 · Refuse disposal and treatment
90511000 · Refuse collection services
90513000 · Non-hazardous refuse and waste treatment and disposal services
90513500 · Treatment and disposal of foul liquids
90513600 · Sludge removal services
90513700 · Sludge transport services
90513800 · Sludge treatment services
90513900 · Sludge disposal services
90700000 · Environmental services
90710000 · Environmental management
90713000 · Environmental issues consultancy services
90713100 · Consulting services for water-supply and waste-water other than for construction
90720000 · Environmental protection

Decision makers

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