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. The GHG Inventory System is used to calculate economy-wide emissions of GHGs across UK territory from 1990 to the present day, to measure progress against climate targets. We require: - Scientific/technical services which would take existing inventory methodologies and – using the latest available science – 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 where needed - Programme management, to ensure that the services commissioned through this contract are delivered on time, to quality and delivery risks are identified and managed This will be a time and materials contract over 34 months. BEIS is holding a supplier event on MS Teams on 22 March, consisting of a presentation by BEIS followed by 1:1s. 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 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 better accuracy, completeness & transparency • reliable, robust and transparent inventory software, to support production of accurate & open inventory estimates Skills needed are - 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