INVITATION TO TENDER:
CARBON IMPACT ASSESSMENT SUPPORT
Area-wide Carbon Assessment
Materials for the Public Sector
Guidance
Issued by:
Keep Scotland Beautiful
First Floor
Strathallan House
Castle Business Park
Stirling
FK9 4TZ
www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org
Keep Scotland Beautiful is a registered Scottish charity. Number SC030332. Registered
Company Number: SC206984. VAT Registration Number: 856 2678 85.
ISSUED: 6 February 2014
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SSN CARBON IMPACT ASSESSMENT SUPPORT – GUIDANCE MATERIALS
Keep Scotland Beautiful (KSB) is the independent charity which campaigns, acts and
educates on a range of local, national and global environmental issues which affect
people’s quality of life. It enables action on sustainable development, by helping
organisations and communities reduce their carbon emissions and environmental
impact so that Scotland plays its part in meeting the challenges of climate change; it
is part of its work to help make Scotland clean and green, today and tomorrow.
The Sustainable Scotland Network (SSN) provides guidance and support to
Scotland’s public sector on climate change action and reporting. SSN co-ordinates
Scotland’s Climate Change Declaration (SCCD), which includes annual reporting
from all Scottish local authorities. SCCD is a voluntary commitment by Scottish local
authorities to report on emissions from their own estate and council areas and to
detail their plans to adapt to a changing climate.
SSN is managed and developed by Keep Scotland Beautiful, an independent
Scottish charity.
PROJECT OUTLINE
KSB is currently seeking consultancy support to develop Area Wide Emissions
Guidance Materials on the main carbon accounting methodologies and datasets.
These Guidance Materials will be made available to public sector officers working on
climate change in Scotland via the SSN website, SSN Climate Change portal and at
future SSN events (potentially as printed paper copies).
It is expected that these Guidance Materials will be generated to complement current
and past SSN work on carbon impact assessment. This includes alignment with a
series of area-wide emissions carbon assessment workshops being run in March
2014.
The Guidance Materials are likely to include information on (but not restricted to):
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The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol
The development and use of National Inventories e.g. DECC datasets
(including recent DEFRA update of conversion factors and the dataset on
emissions within the scope of influence of local authorities).
The Net Scottish Emissions Account (NSEA)
Developing local carbon emission data to Supplement National Inventories
Carbon assessment good practice principles and links to good practice
examples
KSB expects the appointed consultancy to work closely with KSB staff to agree the
design, content and material nature of the guidance materials. It is expected that
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these will include printable documents, PDF documents and related online content
and weblinks.
OUTPUTS
The outputs from this project will be guidance materials aimed at public sector
sustainability and climate change professionals on area-wide greenhouse gas
emissions, related accounting methodologies and datasets as described above.
TIMETABLE
The indicative timetable for the contract is as follows:
Key Actions
Timetable
Issue of invitation to tender
Closing date for questions
Tender return deadline
Award contract
Service commences
Materials 1st draft
Materials 2nd draft
Final draft for design and printing
*Keep Scotland Beautiful may vary these dates
06/02/2014
13/02/2014
20/02/2014
24/02/2014
26/02/2014
12/03/2014
26/03/2014
31/03/2014
QUOTES
Quotes to develop these Guidance Materials should be sent to
jennifer.anderson@keepscotlandbeautiful.org by 20th February 2014.
Detail should be provided on:
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the expected content to be contained within the Guidance Materials
the experience of the staff creating the materials
examples of Area Wide carbon assessment Guidance Materials previously
developed
suggestions on how best to build on these materials for the public sector
The contract will be awarded on criteria of innovation, expertise and value. Keep
Scotland Beautiful reserves the right not to award a contract or not award the
contract to the lowest priced tender.
If you have any questions, or would like to have an informal discussion about this
piece of work, please contact Jennifer Anderson, Sustainable Development Officer
(Climate
Change)
at
Keep
Scotland
Beautiful
by
email
at
jennifer.anderson@keepscotlandbeautiful.org or telephone on 01786 468780 by 13th
February 2014.
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