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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS),

Smart Meter Enabled Thermal Efficiency Ratings (SMETER) Technical Assessment Contractor (TAC)

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000 38500000
Value£900k
Awarded7 Nov 2018
Published7 Dec 2018
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£900ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£972k

This is a large award for Laboratory & Precision Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

This contract is for a Technical Assessment Contractor (TAC) to perform independent testing and validation of products generated during the 'Smart Meter Enabled Thermal Efficiency Rating (SMETER) Innovation Competition being launched alongside this tender.

SMETER tools should be able to measure the thermal performance (i.e. calculate the whole house heat transfer coefficient (HTC)) of individual homes.

The TAC will be required to set up and run a testing and validation programme to provide BEIS with an independent assessment of the performance of the products in a representative scenario.

In addition the TAC should: • Provide guidance and feedback to competition participants on the performance of their SMETER and where they can be improved. • Provide an evaluation to BEIS of the performance of the SMETER products and the success of the overall program

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

SMETER tools should be able to measure

SMETER tools should be able to measure the thermal performance (i.e. calculate the whole house heat transfer coefficient (HTC)) of individual homes.

02

The TAC will be required to set

The TAC will be required to set up and run a testing and validation programme to provide BEIS with an independent assessment of the performance of the products in a representative scenario.

03

In addition the TAC should

In addition the TAC should:.

04

• Provide guidance and feedback to competition

• Provide guidance and feedback to competition participants on the performance of their SMETER and where they can be improved.

05

• Provide an evaluation to BEIS

• Provide an evaluation to BEIS of the performance of the SMETER products and the success of the overall program.

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