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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: DELIVERY OF THE SMART ENERGY NETWORK DEMONSTRATOR
2. Awarding Authority: Keele University. Web: (Darren Pearce).
3. Contract type: Service contract
Negotiated
4. Description: The Awarding Authority 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 Prior Information Notice was published in OJEU in October 2016 and anticipated that the award criteria would be 60% in respect of quality and 40% in respect of cost. Following further consideration, the University has adjusted the weightings to 70% for quality and 30% for cost, given the critical importance of quality to the success of the SEND project.
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 available on the website below.
5. CPV Code(s): 73000000, 72260000, 71314000, 45000000
6. NUTS code(s): UKG, UKG2, UKG24
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: West Midlands, Shropshire And Staffordshire, Staffordshire Cc.
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: KU/174/RR/CP/2016. OJEU Notice : TBC
9. Estimated value of requirement: Estimated Value : #7,000,000.00
10. Date documents can be requested until: 20.2.2017.
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information on the above contract please visit Web:
12. Other information: Award : 20 September 2017
Contract Start : 03 October 2017
Contract End : 30 September 2021
OJEU Notice Date : 20 January 2017
Customer : Directorate of Estates and Development
Process : OJEU
Directive : Works
Awarded Procedure Type : Negotiated
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