Notice Information
Notice Title
Household Water Saving Retrofit Audits
Notice Description
A contract has been awarded for the following - NWL has set itself challenging targets to achieve real and quantifiable water savings through its water efficiency strategy to reach a long-term goal of 110 litres per person per day by 2050 and a 9.7% reduction between 2025 and 2030. Water saving visits have been a key component of our water efficiency strategy. The tried and tested approach successfully combines the provision and fitting of water saving products in customer's homes and effective water efficiency education with each customer. This approach has proven to deliver long-term behaviour change. Water's Worth Saving is our household retrofit water saving visit project. We are seeking to employ a contractor to deliver the project to our highest use customers across our Northern, Essex and Suffolk supply areas for the whole of AMP8 (2025 - 2030).
Lot Information
Lot 1
A contract has been awarded for the following - NWL has set itself challenging targets to achieve real and quantifiable water savings through its water efficiency strategy to reach a long-term goal of 110 litres per person per day by 2050 and a 9.7% reduction between 2025 and 2030. Water saving visits have been a key component of our water efficiency strategy. The tried and tested approach successfully combines the provision and fitting of water saving products in customer's homes and effective water efficiency education with each customer. This approach has proven to deliver long-term behaviour change. Water's Worth Saving is our household retrofit water saving visit project. We are seeking to employ a contractor to deliver the project to our highest use customers across our Northern, Essex and Suffolk supply areas for the whole of AMP8 (2025 - 2030). Below is an overview of the core components for this project to give you an idea of what the contractor will be responsible for, and some of the practical and logistical requirements and deliverables we expect: *Inbound and outbound call handling *Arranging appointments, including rescheduling *Organise/plan technician routes/diaries around appointments, *Organise/facilitate the transfer, storage and monitoring of stock *Gaining an understanding of customers, who they are and how/why/when water is used the way it is *Engaging with customer through relevant behavioural change messaging, making the interaction personal and tailored to the customer *Delivery and installation of suitable water saving interventions, taking flow measurements, and substituting alternative products *Minor internal leak repairs (such as leaking toilets, tap washer replacements etc.) *Remedial visits *Monitoring call centre and field staff productivity *Robust and quality assured data collection, for example collecting data from visit around products installed, meter reads, any other areas of interest, on an electronic form *Reporting, for example a weekly report of work complete, a monthly overview, and a final project review report *Collection of water consumption data to assess water savings *Post intervention customer survey *Post interventions follow up to customers, *Quality assurance random sampling, *Providing feedback and recommendations of improvement prior to review phase, *Regular catch ups with the project team to cover aspects such as training, project progress and any support required. The regulatory year runs from April to March with a requirement to report activity completed to regulators covering this period every year. The objective is to provide validated data on the details of the work completed annually so that this data can be analysed and used for NWG's annual reporting. The project for the first year of the contract will be completed by January 2026 including a period for review of the final report and database by NWG, followed by any required amendments and clarification. Please note: Due to the nature of the project, we require the contractor to be able to deliver the work across all three operating areas, throughout the duration of the contract. This is due to mailing customers in several areas to ensure the target number of properties if achieved. We aim to achieve a minimum of 16,500 visits per year.
Options: The contract will be for 24 months (with 3 month remedial period each year) with a further 36 month optional extension
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-044c54
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/041095-2024
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Selective
- Procurement Method Details
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
-
- CPV Codes
71800000 - Consulting services for water-supply and waste consultancy
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 20 Dec 20241 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 15 Apr 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 19 Nov 20241 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NORTHUMBRIAN WATER GROUP LIMITED
- Contact Name
- Laura McMain
- Contact Email
- laura.mcmain@nwl.co.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 7805786518
Buyer Location
- Locality
- DURHAM
- Postcode
- DH1 5FJ
- Post Town
- Durham
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLC North East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLC4 Northumberland, Durham and Tyne & Wear
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLC41 Durham
- Delivery Location
- TLC North East (England), TLH14 Suffolk CC, TLH3 Essex
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- Local Authority
- County Durham
- Electoral Ward
- Framwellgate and Newton Hall
- Westminster Constituency
- City of Durham
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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