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Heat Pump Ready Project, Veritherm contract award
Decision Maker: Director: Economy of Place
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
•To enable the delivery of the project in
accordance with the Cabinet Decision of 7 February 2023 to accept
the funding and deliver this project.
From our market research and consultation with industry experts
Veritherm are the only company able to have the technical
capability and capacity to offer a combination of home survey tools
as required. We estimate that their combined offer provides a
discount of at approximately 65%.
Decision:
To appoint Veritherm through the route of
‘compliant exception: Particularly advantageous commercial
terms’ to deliver up to 270 heat pump readiness home surveys
following an innovative methodology as part of the Heat Pump Ready
Project.
Alternative options considered:
Option 1 - To award the components of the
survey to different companies. Our market research gathered
evidence of industry capability and pricing on the individual
survey elements available today. 8 different suppliers have
provided quotations or have publicly available pricing, none of
whom are able to immediately deliver more than 4-6 of the required
survey components with most only being able to directly deliver 1-2
items. A nearest comparator supplier cost be £1450 compared
to our price quoted of £499
Option 2 -
Option 3 -
Publication date: 29/03/2023
Date of decision: 07/03/2023