Utilities Consultant Partner

United Learning is seeking to appoint a Utilities Partner via a Concessions Contract for a four-year period to tender and manage a Framework or suite of Frameworks compliant with the Public Contract Regulations 2015 for the procurement and supply of mains gas, electricity, metering agreements, liquid fuels, biomass, and water. Additionally, the partnership service should include the management of utilities portfolio asset information, management and analysis of billing, consumption and export data, management of on-site generation and associated export agreements.

The Partner must be capable of providing complimentary services including bureau support and bill validation and audits of historic import, export, and invoicing data to identify and recover overpayments including through the identification of incorrect allocation of industry charges (forensic revenue recovery). It is expected that the Partner will enable access to a central energy database and facilitate the availability of key energy data for nominated United Learning Central Office staff/schools on a needs basis via a web portal or other digital platform so that data can be scrutinised going forward.

Ancillary products and services may be requested from the successful Provider at the discretion of United Learning; these may include but are not limited to:

• Demand Side Response (DSR)/Frequency Response services

• Onsite Energy Generation Solutions

• Energy Storage Solutions

• Electric Vehicle Charging Points

• Energy As A Service options

• Other services related to the effective management of energy and sustainability in the education estate, including through the deployment of new technologies and innovation strategy.

To apply you must return a comprehensive response as set out in the Invitation to Tender document. The response should be in the format at a single pdf document which should be sent to energytender@unitedlearning.org.uk