UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

Linklaters provide all commercial legal advice to the New Nuclear a critical enabler to the financing / technical / policy and investment workstreams of this complex and fast paced project. Linklaters have supported the project since its inception and their experience on similar projects (including the Thames Tideway Tunnel which was funded through a regulated asset base (RAB), which is the approach for the SZC project), expertise in the nuclear sector and corporate knowledge/experience of the project and its multiple workstreams / stakeholders makes them a critical enabler for project success. Linklaters are intrinsically involved in multiple concurrent and planned negotiations and workstreams, and it is not feasible or desirable to extricate them at this critical juncture. The introduction of a new supplier would disrupt sensitive negotiations, and the read-in time and background would be significant. Under PCR 2015 Regulation 72(1b) (ii) which permits 50% of the original contract value to be varied (£5,000,000 ex- VAT). This will ensure consistent support to the project through the capital raise process and provide enough time to consider longer term procurement / commercial positions in more detail.

This notice is for an extension to an existing awarded contract, with the original notice having been published on Contracts Finder and linked to this notice. It does not constitute an award for a new contract. This variation increases the value of the contract from £5,000,000, as originally published on Contracts Finder, to £7,073,000. This variation is being made in accordance with Regulation 72(1)(c) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015. This variation increases the duration of the contract is unchanged. This was a pre-existing option in the contract and the initial procurement documents made in accordance with Regulation 72(1)(a). As per the original award notice, the scope of the contract remains the same: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2335f859-c9a3-4788-b40f-d948f45803bd

Provision of Intranet support services to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The contract was awarded through Crown Commercial Service G-Cloud 12 framework. Contract extended on 11/2022.

To provide support and legal services to the BEIS Renewable Electricity Directorate in a range of commercial areas including contracts, procurement, grant funding and supply chain assessment to deliver the Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Scheme (OWMIS) and Floating Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Scheme (FLOWMIS)

Stream 2 aims to identify, support and then develop credible innovative hydrogen supply or enabling technologies to bring about a step change in their development. Stream 2 competition was run as a single-phase competition. Stream 2: Demonstration (up to £30m) The Stream 2 competition will support the physical demonstration of a wide range of technologies and solutions over a number of themes which are Low Carbon Hydrogen Production solutions, Zero Carbon Hydrogen Production solutions, Hydrogen Storage and Transport solutions and Net Zero Hydrogen Supply solutions. This competition will support the physical demonstration of the hydrogen supply solution, including engineering design, build, trial, decommissioning, market assessment, and knowledge dissemination. The demonstration study should either demonstrate the entire hydrogen supply solution (where necessary simulating scenarios of the hydrogen uses), or key components or a prototype in a relevant environment, or further develop and demonstrate the physical design of new solutions to enable low carbon hydrogen supply solutions. Companies will also develop technical and business plans for market deployment. Please Note: This notice was previously published on the 28th February 2022. Due to a technical error the original notice was removed - this notice replaces the original notice. Additional information: Please note: Contract values in this notice have been rounded up to the nearest whole pound.

Stream 2 aims to identify, support and then develop credible innovative hydrogen supply or enabling technologies to bring about a step change in their development. Stream 2 competition was run as a single-phase competition. Stream 2: Demonstration (up to £30m) The Stream 2 competition will support the physical demonstration of a wide range of technologies and solutions over a number of themes which are Low Carbon Hydrogen Production solutions, Zero Carbon Hydrogen Production solutions, Hydrogen Storage and Transport solutions and Net Zero Hydrogen Supply solutions. This competition will support the physical demonstration of the hydrogen supply solution, including engineering design, build, trial, decommissioning, market assessment, and knowledge dissemination. The demonstration study should either demonstrate the entire hydrogen supply solution (where necessary simulating scenarios of the hydrogen uses), or key components or a prototype in a relevant environment, or further develop and demonstrate the physical design of new solutions to enable low carbon hydrogen supply solutions. Companies will also develop technical and business plans for market deployment. Additional information: Please note: Award values have been rounded to the nearest whole pound.

The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has completed the procurement, for the procurement of a grant administrator / delivery partner for the a financial support scheme, know as the Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) a targeted financial grants scheme to enable transition of new and existing heat networks to low carbon technologies. . GHNF aims to incentivize the transition to low carbon heat sources for existing and new heat networks, whilst stimulating the increase deployment of low carbon technologies at scale. In addition, GHNF will help prepare the heat networks market for future low carbon regulation and ensure compliance with existing regulations.

The CCUS programme is moving from the policy development stage into the delivery stage in Q2 this year, this will change the size, shape and ways of working within the team. The external facilitator will deliver a work package that builds on this work and culminates into a whole team (circa 100 people) day that focuses on: • The need to align different teams and directors behind the scope and direction of travel • How to consider and establish the longer term future of CCUS • Understand and manage expectations • Develop resilience while working with uncertainties • Prepare for transition into the next stage

The supplier will provide BEIS with MS Call plans and Azure licences.

Research consultancy services

Provision of media buying services for BEIS to be used for the promotion of its campaigns. This spans a range of media channels (TV advertising, print, digital display, search engine, social medial, video on demand, broadcast video on demand, 'out of home' advertising such as billboards, tube etc.)

This research project is urgently needed with outputs by Easter to inform BEIS and HMG of a) whether government intervention can further enhance security of supply in the UK gas market ahead of next winter, and b) if so, what the most (cost) effective mitigations might be

Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and a request for the supply of generators by the Government of Ukraine as the escalating bombardment is causing an humanitarian disaster, BEIS wishes to purchase generators and have them delivered to an identified location for handover to a representative of the Ukrainian Government Government are aware of the extreme urgency for generators, of various sizes, due to the growing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and the vulnerability of their grid. Ukraine's need for assistance to sustain power generation is unforeseeable and urgently required, thus we are procuring contracts under Regulation 32 (2)(a)(c) of the Public Contracts Regulation 2015, which allows government to procure via negotiation without prior public publication due to reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events that were unforeseeable

The supplier will provide technical development support and services to support BEIS's Information Governance blueprint through iteration and technical support for the provisioning MVP.

The supplier will provide DXW service support (Application support each month, plus 11 service hours per Q and provide a dedicated account manager).

The supplier will support delivery of the Better Information Architecture programme and address BEIS skills gaps, whilst at the same time upskill the BEIS core team to deliver future projects.

BEIS has appointed BVA BDRC to provide BEIS with a subscription to their Landlord Panel Survey. The survey is ran quarterly and includes both 'Core' and 'Small' landlord panels. BEIS will receive a full subscription to quarters 1 and 3, in which BVA BDRC will accept bespoke topical questions from BEIS to include in the survey. This full subscription will provide BEIS with a full data set of survey findings in these quarters. In quarters 2 and 4, BVA BDRC will provide BEIS with data from a set of topical questions only.

This procurement allows BEIS Digital colleagues access to live learning events, Special Interest Groups and a library with over 5,000 training videos.

The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has appointed a supplier to support Adaptive Technology Implementation within BEIS.

The supplier will provide BEIS with specialist support for the BEIS Data Management System.