# FM22113 - Combined Heat and Power Quality Assurance \(CHPQA\) Programme

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Contract winner: [Ricardo-AEA Limited](/contract-winners/ricardo-aea/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £2,758,200
- Tender value: £2,758,200
- Award date: 24 November 2022
- Published: 28 December 2022
- Contract start: 1 January 2023
- Contract end: 31 December 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 5a6d679b-2f3e-4dbf-8f31-e3e5b86716f0-602023
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6cbac6bb-e581-4649-b9c3-3e97364eaf54

## Description

\*\*Please note this is an Award Notice and not a call for competition, this Contract has been awarded via the CCS Heat Networks and Electricity Generation Assets Dynamic Purchasing System\.\*\* The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy had a requirement for a supplier to undertake the following work, in the form of two contracts: one covering the delivery of the main CHPQA programme; the other to undertake audits of CHPQA schemes\. This requirement is broken down into 2 lots as follows: Lot 1 - Delivery of the Main CHPQA Programme Lot 1 tasks include the following: - Assessment, validation and certification of CHP schemes; - Maintaining and updating the CHPQA Standard and Guidance Notes; - Providing UK CHP data for CHPQA schemes and an estimate of all other schemes; - Providing Quality Assurance checks for publication statistics in The Digest of UK Energy Statistics \(DUKES\) and provide insights into current trends; - Technical advice and support to new and existing CHPQA applicants throughout the year; - Maintaining and updating promotional activities such as CHP Focus, CHPQA content on GOV\.UK websites and workshops; - Ad hoc policy support including delivery and service management of any future changes to CHPQA policy; and - Guarantee of Origin \(GOO\) Certificates\. Lot 2 - Auditing of a cross-section of CHPQA schemes The successful supplier is required to undertake a minimum of 75 audits of a cross-section of CHPQA schemes based on that year's certified sites\. Both lots are let as a 2-year fixed term with the option to extend for a further 1\+1 year\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/5a6d679b-2f3e-4dbf-8f31-e3e5b86716f0-602023)