HEETSA Framework Planning and Discovery

Tender description

The Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of Heat and Energy Efficiency Technical Suitability Assessment Framework Planning & Discovery Services. Lot 1: The purpose of this Discovery project is to set out in clear terms the resource requirement and market impact for a HEETSA. This will allow Scottish Ministers to consider a full deployment of HEETSA into the Scottish retrofit assessment landscape. The scope of Discovery will consider: - the overall concept of HEETSA and how it relates to the EPC and other parts of the heat and energy efficiency retrofit assessment landscape; -current assessment methodologies that could be used to underpin HEETSA and how potential gaps in the market could be filled; -the skills, qualifications, and accreditation processes that would be needed to ensure that assessors were able to offer detailed advice to building owners on technical suitability of heat and energy efficiency retrofit measures; -the way in which HEETSA can be standardised into a common certification / reporting format; -detailed costed options for the delivery of the above.