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Keele University

Delivery of the Smart Energy Network Demonstrator - AWARD

ConstructionCPV 45000000 38551000 45315400 71320000 45333000 32421000 42961200 45251200 44161110 45231100 45314300 48151000 44161100 45333200 38554000
Value£6.1m
Awarded20 Feb 2017
Published23 Nov 2017
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£6.1mtotal contract value
median £158k
this tender£0£6.6m

This is a large award for Construction — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 64,002 valued Construction tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Keele University SEND will provide a real community based at-scale demonstrator, across multiple energy vectors, to support RD&I into smart, flexible energy supply, storage and monitoring to deliver improved energy security, reduce energy costs and reduce carbon emissions within a mixed environment and community.

The purpose of this procurement is to appoint a Contractor to complete the final design, deliver the new and upgraded/refurbished utility infrastructure to enable demonstration, introduce and upgrade (to enable demonstration) the control system for the SEND, and oversee the introduction of procedural changes.

The SEND project has the following functional objectives: * Basic Information Management * Basic Demand Side Management * Advanced metering infrastructure and heat load analysis * Integrated Energy Systems, Leveraging Advanced Information Management * Realising Micro-grids through advanced DER management * Unlocking low carbon transport potential * Introduce self-healing network characteristics The form of contract to be utilised will be the FIDIC Silver Book First Edition 1999 as will be amended by the University as specified in the procurement documents.

The SEND is part funded from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds England Growth Programme 2014-2020 and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Key requirements

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01

The purpose of this procurement is

The purpose of this procurement is to appoint a Contractor to complete the final design, deliver the new and upgraded/refurbished utility infrastructure to enable demonstration, introduce and upgrade (to enable demonstration) the control system for the SEND, and oversee the introduction of procedural changes.

02

Integrated Energy Systems, Leveraging Advanced Information Management

Integrated Energy Systems, Leveraging Advanced Information Management.

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Stage
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KU/174/RR/CP/2016 - AWARD
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