Warmer Homes - Local Authority Delivery - Project Management & Delivery Administration Services

Portsmouth City Council - the 'Council' - in partnership with AgilityEco Services Ltd - the 'Supplier' - has successfully secured further Local Authority Delivery grant funding to the value of £6,027,497 from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy's (BEIS) Local Authority Delivery (LAD) scheme, round 1B.

The securing of this funding builds upon previous funding which the Council and the Supplier successfully secured in October 2020 from BEIS to the value of £3,100,500 under round 1A of the LAD scheme.

The round 1B funding will be used to extend the scheme to provide 914 additional domestic households with energy efficiency measures, including the addition of offering solar PV.

The additional funding also allows for extension of overall scheme operation from March 2021 to the end of September 2021, and is open to a much wider cohort of properties in the city; including SAP rated band D properties, which make up approximately 40% of Portsmouth's homes.

This project will continue to support other partner authorities already engaged with round 1A of the scheme, as well as further additional councils who have subsequently engaged under round 1B. The participating authorities are as follows:

In accordance with the grant funding application submitted to BEIS the Council has commissioned the Supplier to undertake Project Administration Activities and Customer Process Management Activities required for effective delivery of the scheme in accordance with the stated grant conditions.

The Council will commission these activities from the Supplier via variation of the existing contract between the parties for the provision of activities associated with round 1A which was entered into in October 2020 for an approx. term of 6 months and at an estimated value of £182,500.

The technical scope of the round 1A activities included for within this contract are identical to those required for delivery of round 1B. The cost for delivery of the activities associated with round 1B is £568,118 over the additional 6 month delivery programme bringing the overall estimated value of the contract to £750,618.