Eco-Design Testing

The Department for Business and Trade (“DBT”) has a potential requirement for the provision of testing services of household appliances to verify and assess their compliance with the Eco-design Regulations for Energy-Related Products 2010, Energy Information Regulations 2011 and the Eco-design for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information Regulations 2021 within the UK.

DBT are requesting Expressions of Interest ("EOI") pertaining to this requirement. Please email: commercialbpo@businessandtrade.gov.uk by 17th February 2025 in order to register your interest.

At this stage, DBT wishes to understand the size and capability of the supply market. Information that it gathers will be used to refine requirements to ensure they are fit for suppliers to deliver against. Meetings will also be held directly with interested participants at a future date, subject to capacity.

The Secretary of State for DBT is the contracting authority responsible for meeting this anticipated requirement. DBT intends to publish the Contract/Tender Notice around April 2025.

The full specification shall be provided with the contract documents, but it is expected to incorporate the testing of a variety of household appliances obtained from the UK Market to test their efficiency and compliance against the designated Eco-design and Energy Labelling standards. Ecodesign - European Commission. The Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Amendment) Regulations 2021.

The testing requirements will be broken down into seven lots each covering a variety of seven (7) to eight (8) household appliances and a selection of test procedures.