Notice Information
Notice Title
Design, commissioning and operating in-mineshaft heating experimental system (STEAM)
Notice Description
Design, commissioning and operating in-mineshaft heating experimental system (STEAM)
Lot Information
Lot 1
STEAM (short for GigaWatt-Hour Subsurface Thermal Energy storAge: Engineered structures and legacy Mine shafts) is a 2-year 1.2M GBP research programme funded by EPSRC and led by the University of Strathclyde. The STEAM project examines the potential to use abandoned mine shafts for interseasonal storage of curtailed wind energy in the form of thermal energy. In 2020, wind curtailment payments in the UK were 282M GBP: enough to power 1.25 million homes and equivalent to 4 GBP per MWh of energy generated. There is 120GW of 'spare' electricity in East Ayrshire alone. Thermal stores used previously are limited in size and by their need for insulation. Flooded mine shafts containing millions of cubic meters of water are ubiquitous across much of the UK, yet the thermal storage opportunity within shafts is unexplored. The rock mass around the shafts is a medium-quality insulator but pilot work by STEAM partners at the University of Edinburgh has shown that as the rocks heat up, the insulation efficiency rises considerably in as little as three years. We will investigate the feasibility of using the spare electricity on windy days to heat up water in abandoned mine shafts, to be extracted on cold days into homes and businesses. The UK is peppered with mine shafts from the days of coal mining - we want to turn these holes in the ground into thermal stores to help balance the electrical grid and to decarbonise homes and businesses. The University seeks the expertise of a suitably qualified and experienced supplier to submit a solution for the design and operation of the STEAM experiment. The experimental programme will be co-developed with the contractor and the STEAM delivery team in response to the baseline datasets as they become available (in the first 9-12 months of the contract), and limitations of monitoring. The delivery team are expecting approximately 4-5 experimental phases, each lasting 10-14 days, to take place in Q4 2023 - Q1 2024. The University is looking to secure the services of a single supplier, who will manage sub-contractors where needed, to deliver the listed objectives and requirements related to the safe establishment and operation of an in-shaft heating system and monitoring programme.
Options: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to request additional deliveries by the successful Tenderer, either intended as partial replacement of supplies or installations or as extensions of existing supplies and installations. The Contracting Authority may at its sole discretion exercise this option.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000719997
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=DEC495579
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- PCS Notice - Website Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
09 - Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy
39 - Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products
42 - Industrial machinery
44 - Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)
71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
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- CPV Codes
09320000 - Steam, hot water and associated products
09323000 - District heating
39715200 - Heating equipment
42511110 - Heat pumps
42940000 - Machinery for the heat treatment of materials
44622000 - Heat-recovery systems
71321200 - Heating-system design services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £100,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £100,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £99,998 Under £100K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 22 Dec 20232 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 20 Feb 2023Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 11 Aug 20232 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- magdalena.bamford@strath.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 7811592949
Buyer Location
- Locality
- GLASGOW
- Postcode
- G1 1QE
- Post Town
- Glasgow
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM3 West Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM32 Glasgow City
- Delivery Location
- TLM82 Glasgow City
-
- Local Authority
- Glasgow City
- Electoral Ward
- Anderston/City/Yorkhill
- Westminster Constituency
- Glasgow North East
Further Information
Notice Documents
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