Contracts awarded by the government and its agencies, valued at over £12,000. This includes
contracts from government departments, local councils, and other public bodies.
Northamptonshire stop smoking service is looking to procure Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) to form part of the treatment plan for service users as part of their 12 week treatment programme. These will only be given to service users who are signed up to the Northamptonshire stop smoking programme and are engaged with the service for up to 12 weeks and are receiving behavioural intervention with regular contact from a stop smoking advisor. The stop smoking programme intends to support service users to quit smoking entirely. NRT will only be provided to persons over the age of 12 years old. The Council is appointing multiple providers to a Framework agreement, in order that they may provide a range of NRT products to enable customer choice. The award of the contract will be for an initial two years, with an option to extend for one year.
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
There is an urgent need to accelerate clean energy technology demonstration, uptake, and commercialisation globally. To realise global net zero by 2050, almost half the emissions reductions will need to come from technologies that are not yet commercial (currently at the demonstration or prototype phase) (IEA 2021). Globally, we must prepare for the next phase of the transition by boosting innovation by investing in RD&D.
Most innovation support to date has utilised push mechanisms, directly subsidising the up-front RD&D costs. However, in many cases this approach has not yet sought to incentivise innovations' uptake and usage, in particular addressing factors specific to low-and middle-income countries. It is envisaged that incentive-based, pull funding for innovative clean technologies could play this role.
This tender is for a research project to address knowledge gaps on types of climate /clean technology and applications appropriate for pull financing. The research will focus on the potential scale, costs and impacts of potential Official Development Assistance (ODA) funded interventions for clean technologies in hard-to-abate sectors to inform further action and potential investment proposals.
Overarching objectives of this research activity:
- A greater understanding of the opportunity and possibility for UK Government (or others') intervention in this space through development of exemplar case studies that could demonstrate potential impact, scale, and design considerations for this funding approach, in relevant Ayrton Fund thematic challenge areas. This helps respond to wider questions on whether/how this kind of approach could be effective, at what scale, to support global climate and development goals.
- Greater insights into the broader global landscape for clean technology pull finance, through the lens of where development assistance in this form could best contribute, taking account of the status of the current offer through pull financing, any unfulfilled gaps or unknowns. This will provide the authority with a clearer picture of the positioning of the UK (and Ayrton Fund thematic challenge areas), of global markets or needs for different types of clean energy RD&D, and of UK's role as a major ODA provider in various countries. This would help respond to wider questions on whether (and where/how) this type of approach could be additional.
- Provide clear, relevant evidence from an independent source to feed into the development of internal proposals for investment.
Output 1: Exemplar Case studies
Output 2: Landscape review and analysis
The objective of this tender exercise is to procure a support partner and contract for our current Check Point Infrastructure.
See Invitation to Tender for details.
NOTE: The figure for estimated contract value is to take account of optional extensions.
The Council is seeking quotations from organisations able to provide Animal Boarding Services in accordance with the Care Act 2014 and any future revisions or new legislation. It is anticipated that the contract will commence on 03/01/2023 and will run for a period of 24 months making the expiry date 02/01/2025. The contract will have an option to extend by 2 x 12-month extension at the sole discretion of the Council making the latest possible expiry date 02/01/2027. The total anticipated spend is in the region of £12,000 per annum giving a potential total contract value of £48,000.