Industrial Decarbonisation Market Mechanisms Regulatory Support 24-28

The Environment Agency’s Climate Change Trading and Regulatory Services Team (CCTRS) regulate and administer various UK Government and International climate change policies. We are seeking to put a suitable call off contract(s) for consultants with skills, knowledge and experience to support our operational activities over the next four years to maintain both our current operational activities and enable us to plan and deliver for the future.

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For Lot 1 our ‘business as usual’ activities, the work will be dependent on each regime. The main work areas include permitting, account opening and assessing reports from businesses such as energy data, emissions data, and annual reports. Detailed below is a summary of the types of activities we undertake, although this list is not exhaustive:

• Determination of New Permits, Underlying Agreements, Registrations and Applications, Offsetting Obligations.
• Determination of subsequent Variations and Transfers Applications, Assess the eligibility of new facilities being added to agreements
• Review annual reports, monitoring plans, methodology plans, improvement reports, licence applications.
• Assessment of data submissions, process target period report submissions
• Undertake due diligence checks and assessments
• Respond to technical queries and produce technical guidance
• Submission of data to meet UK and International requirements

Skills and expertise required:

We are looking for suppliers who can provide consultants that are qualified to a degree level (or have significant experience) in a relevant field and have experience of working with relevant sectors or organisations in one or more of the following areas; energy management, climate change regimes, other environmental regulation and permitting experience.

Value is estimated £9m across the 4 years, across all 6 contracts and only an estimation & not guaranteed.