UK Greenhouse gas Inventory improvement programme

Concepts

• environmental services
• greenhouse gas inventory system
• inventory system use state
• ghg inventory system
• inventory methodologies
• digital improvements
• programme management
• transparent inventory software
• inventory
• new inventory methodologies

Location

United Kingdom:

Description

BEIS is seeking to procure services to deliver scientific, technical & digital improvements to the Greenhouse Gas Inventory System. The GHG Inventory System is used to calculate economy-wide emissions of GHGs across UK territory from 1990 to the present day, to measure progress against climate targets. We require: - Scientific/technical services which would take existing inventory methodologies and – using the latest available science – update these to improve the transparency, accuracy and completeness. - Technical/digital services to ensure methodologies in the inventory system use state-of-the-art software and existing software systems can be upgraded where needed - Programme management, to ensure that the services commissioned through this contract are delivered on time, to quality and delivery risks are identified and managed This will be a time and materials contract over 34 months. BEIS is holding a supplier event on MS Teams on 22 March, consisting of a presentation by BEIS followed by 1:1s.

Total Quantity or Scope

Our inventory meets domestic & international reporting requirements. A description of this system can be found at https://naei.beis.gov.uk/about/national-inventory-system and a full description of the methods used at https://naei.beis.gov.uk/reports/reports?report_id=1015 In order to allow a pipeline of R&D to underpin inventory improvements as we move to the 2050 net zero target, we require: • New inventory methodologies which estimate emissions from particular sectors with better accuracy, completeness & transparency • reliable, robust and transparent inventory software, to support production of accurate & open inventory estimates Skills needed are - technical expertise in estimating GHG emissions from sectors, including land-use, industry, waste, energy [& agriculture]. - software expertise around the application of existing analytical tools (e.g. R, Python) to scientific problems, the development of models to process large datasets & SQL database expertise. - a contractor with strong PPM expertise to manage this work

CPV Codes

• 90700000 - Environmental services
• 71351611 - Climatology services
• 72212461 - Analytical or scientific software development services
• 73110000 - Research services
• 90730000 - Pollution tracking and monitoring and rehabilitation
• 90731000 - Services related to air pollution

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Please register your interest for the supplier event by 5pm on 10th March, by sending your name, email, organisation and job title to greenhousegas.statistics@beis.gov.uk, indicating whether you would like to book a 15-minute 1:1 slot with a member of the BEIS team; these are limited and allocated on a first-come first-served basis.