# Local Area Energy Plans \(LAEPs\)

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [West Yorkshire Combined Authority](/buyers/west-yorkshire-combined-authority/contract-awards)
- Published: 14 September 2023
- Planned start: 10 October 2023
- Planned end: 11 October 2023
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 70f67369-ff00-4e52-8d8b-42bdf8057234-680579
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-f6bfceb3-57e1-4263-9684-cf81efdd7eac

## Description

Procurement for a supplier to provide the following: • Stakeholder engagement - supporting WYCA and four local authorities \(LAs\) to define stakeholders' roles; preparing an engagement plan; engagement activities to ensure a credible, cohesive and sustained approach to governance and delivery of the LAEPs\. Organising stakeholder events • Representing the regional area and its energy system; spatial mapping; identifying relevant data sources and analysing them; reviewing outputs with stakeholders • Modelling options for the future to decarbonise the regional area; establishing potential scenarios and modelling approaches with stakeholders; modelling a range of costed options and assessing them • Refining scenarios and selecting pathways through techno-economic analysis; evaluating wider factors; engagement with stakeholders • Assessing national, regional and local policy at the level of government and key stakeholders • Desk research and overview of consumer acceptance of and preference for different technologies, based on income quintiles/deciles • Creating LAEPs for the four LAs • Ensuring that all five LAEPs are aligned in terms of topics addressed and cross-boundary opportunities • Drafting an overview report of the LAEPs for the five LAs \(including Calderdale\)\. This will bring together the content of each LAEP, address cross-boundary issues, etc • Actions, priorities and decisions - assessing the pathways to identify interventions and timelines for deployment with: - Diversity/flexibility in different places - Priority project identification - Long-term \(opportunities for scale up\) • Revising finalised LAEPs to take account of any significant policy, technological or regional/local changes

## Related contract awards

- [Airborne Data Link](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-c1061a90-ff56-4ab4-bcbc-1df7e157bed2): West Yorkshire Combined Authority
- [People Professional Apprenticeships](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-392978e2-a986-460a-84c9-51ade9c205e9): West Yorkshire Combined Authority
- [Provision of E-Learning and Learning Management System](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-46b69c48-c6e7-4598-82ef-4927470b112e): West Yorkshire Combined Authority

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/70f67369-ff00-4e52-8d8b-42bdf8057234-680579)