Technical services for assessing the energy performance of buildings

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; and the Department of Communities and Local Government wishes to appoint suppliers for technical support for development and maintaining the methodologies for assessing the energy performance of buildings and associated mechanisms and software. .The key areas of expertise needed are: LOT 1: Maintaining and developing the SAP National Calculation Methodology and energy assessment models and the operation of the process for the consideration of new technologies; and ad-hoc technical support for SAP LOT 2: The maintenance and development of the products characteristic database LOT 3: Testing third party produced SAP software LOT 4: Quality assurance of SAP model LOT 5: Maintaining and developing the Simplified Building Energy Model and its associated interface tool LOT 6: The maintenance of SBEM Appendix Q LOT 7: Testing third party produced SBEM and non-domestic EPBD software