Published date: 19 November 2024
Open opportunity - This means that the contract is currently active, and the buying department is looking for potential suppliers to fulfil the contract.
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Closing: 10 December 2024, 5pm
Contract summary
Industry
Fraud audit services - 79212400
Location of contract
North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands
Value of contract
£495,000
Procurement reference
tender_468961/1426859
Published date
19 November 2024
Closing date
10 December 2024
Closing time
5pm
Contract start date
30 January 2025
Contract end date
30 June 2025
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
What is an open procedure (above threshold)?
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
This is an accelerated procedure.
Justification
Reg 27
(4) Where contracting authorities have published a prior information notice which was not itself used as a means of calling for competition, the minimum time limit for the receipt of tenders as laid down in paragraph (2) may be shortened to 15 days, provided that both of the following conditions are fulfilled:-
(a)the prior information notice included all the information required for the contract notice in section I of part B of Annex V to the Public Contracts Directive insofar as that information was available at the time the prior information notice was published;
(b)the prior information notice was sent for publication between 35 days and 12 months before the date on which the contract notice was sent.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
This notice is to alert bidders to a call for competition for the DESNZ; ECO4 Fraud and Error Assurance.
The specification and tender documents are published on the DESNZ Jaggaer portal https://beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/088750560193450A2C5E
The maximum value and length for this contract is £495,000 exc VAT over 5 months. However, bidders are encouraged to highlight where efficiencies in time and cost can be made in their bid.
DESNZ is seeking to commission a comprehensive review of fraud and error risks in ECO4, and of the capability of current delivery systems for managing those risks. The department wants to better understand the extent to which the scheme is providing support to the correct households and properties to enable evidence-based future policy design and best practice in delivery management.
The awarded supplier will be expected to provide all the necessary resource and capability, and have sufficient capacity to manage the work required including, but not limited, to the following key areas:
- Data and document analysis.
- Industry knowledge, specifically retrofit, low carbon heating and energy efficiency installation through the construction industry.
- Understanding in similar/comparable scheme/project delivery. Familiarity with government schemes and ideally energy supplier obligation schemes would be beneficial.
- Ability to conduct a low number of on-site audits of domestic properties and installation of funded measures (with national cover) to validate hypotheses around risks.
- Gathering and analysing relevant information, data, accounts, audits, project management artefacts and other relevant information sources.
- Business analysis (including understanding structure, policies and operations, identifying business need, determining solutions) and process modelling.
- Fraud management, analysis, detection and prevention.
- Working knowledge and experience of application of Counter Fraud Functional Standard (GovS 013) requirements.
- Interview design and analysis.
- Ability to recognise issues and their potential and ranked impact to make actionable recommendations both through regular and ad-hoc collaborative meetings and in final reporting with DESNZ
How to apply
Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.
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