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Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure & Associated Services - LEVI Fund Portsmouth Partner Operator Concession Agreement - Preliminary Market Engagement
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1. Introduction 1.1. Portsmouth City Council - the 'Council' - is undertaking preliminary market engagement over April - May 2025 to inform its procurement strategy for the delivery of electric vehicle charging infrastructure within Portsmouth to be delivered via an open book partnership concession agreement. 1.2. Once the preliminary market engagement process has been completed the Council will review findings, finalise its strategy and documentation and submit these for approval by the funder - Office for Zero Emission Vehicles - by no later than 13th June 2025. 1.3. Once approved the Council will then undertake a formal procurement process over Summer / Autumn 2025 instigated via issue of a Tender Notice to appoint a partner operator for the supply, installation, maintenance, operation and, at the council's option, decommissioning of electrical vehicle chargepoints within the city on a mutually incentivised commercial concession basis. 2. LEVI Funding & Concession Approach 2.1. The Council has secured Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) funding to the value of £3,682,000, the majority of which will be used to part fund the delivery of a minimum of 3,600 new electric vehicle chargepoints (sockets) over a phased 5-year delivery programme. 2.2. The LEVI funding cannot be utilised for the on-going operation, maintenance and end of contract decommissioning of the infrastructure which will have to be met by the operator. Whilst the Council will work in partnership with the successful operator to help maximise successful development of the scheme and mitigate risks the operator will take risk in respect of demand. 2.3. In line with the LEVI funding objectives concerning commercialisation of networks, leveraging high levels of private sector investment and cross subsidisation, the council expects that the successful operator to secure and deploy the significant majority of the capital funding required to supply and install the target number of chargepoints. 3. Infrastructure Deployment & Programme 3.1. In line with the objectives of the LEVI funding and the council's own strategic objectives, the deployment of the charging infrastructure will need to be targeted within areas of the city where there is a lack of off-street parking available to residents. 3.2. In line with LEVI fund objectives, the chargepoints will primarily be low powered (up to 7kW), on-street and for the use of residents. However, on a secondary basis and only where there is a clear benefit to the scale and commerciality of the on-street resident charging offer, the council may also target the deployment of higher-powered fast charging (up to 22 kW) chargepoints. These may serve, for instance, resident focused car club scheme bays and off-street Council owned -car parks used by residents and visitors to the city. 3.3. There is some flexibility on the type of chargepoint technology to be deployed, with lamppost charging, free-standing bollards and other innovative unit designs permitted. Currently, chargepoint gullies, rapid and ultra-rapid (50 kW and above) chargepoints will not fall within the scope of the future procurement process. 3.4. The installation locations will be decided collaboratively between the successful operator and the council after contract award. The successful operator should commit to providing equitable coverage across the city, focused on serving those without off-street parking who are currently unable to charge at home. There is a need to meet the demand for residential EV infrastructure now and in the future, to support residents of Portsmouth to convert to electric vehicles. It is not envisaged that a list of pre-defined sites will be released as part of the tender pack for the future procurement. 3.5. The Council is targeting to have appointed the successful partner operator by January 2026 who will then be required to work in partnership with the council to rollout a minimum of 3,600 new chargepoint (sockets) installations by a target date of 2031. 4. Out of Scope ORCS Funded Infrastructure 4.1. The Council has also recently undertaken a procurement process in Autumn 2024 to appoint an operator - Zest Eco Ltd - via a 15 year concession agreement to deliver and operate approx. 300 new on-street chargepoints (sockets) using approx. £887,000 of On-Street Residential chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) funding. Roll out of the new chargepoints is underway and is expected to be completed over the course of 2026. Under the concession agreement Zest will also take on delivery and operation of chargepoints at approx. 100 existing on-street chargepoint locations. 4.2. There is no expectation that the successful operator secured to deliver the LEVI funded chargepoints (sockets) will take on any of the approx. 400 in total chargepoints operated by Zest. Neither the successful operator appointed to deliver the LEVI funded infrastructure or Zest will be granted exclusivity by the Council to operate on street chargpoints within Portsmouth. 4.3. When the existing chargepoint locations, new ORCS funded chargepoints and LEVI funded chargepoints are combined this should equate to approx. 4,000 on-street charepoint sockets being in operation within the city by 2031. These numbers have modelled using the LEVI Support Body's NEVIS Insights tool which shows that there should be sufficient demand for this number of on-street chargepoints within the city. 5. Contract Period, Terms, Estimated Value & Income 5.1. The contract will run for a period of 15 years, extendable by a further year if required to enable effective demobilisation. The contract will be let using flexible open book commercial concession terms prepared by the Council's Legal Advisors Browne Jacobson. 5.2. The council forecasts that the anticipated income that could be generated by the successful operator top deliver the minimum of 3.660 chargepoints could equate on average to £14,600,000 per annum. Over the contract period of 15 years this could equate to £219,000,000. 5.3. The anticipated forecast is based on the following: - an average of 3,200 operational sockets (only reaches 3,600 sockets by year 5) - consumption of 25 kWh per chargepoint per day, 365 days per year - underlying electricity costs of £0.35 per kWh - a £0.15 mark up between the energy supply cost and tariffs to cover overheads 5.4. The council is providing these estimates for transparency purposes only and is not placing any binding upper or lower volume and value parameters which could constrain development of the scheme in terms of scope and revenue generation. It is expected that the revenue generated will be impacted positively or negatively by numbers of chargepoints installed, speed of rollout programme, local electric vehicle sales, energy costs and a range of factors both within and outside of the control of both parties. The above figures, assumptions and associated demand projections will be tested as part of the preliminary market engagement process. 5.5. Whilst the Council is not seeking to make a direct profit from the operation of the chargepoint infrastructure, the operator will be required to provide an income stream to the Council which will be used by the Council to cover its own running costs. 6. Procurement Procedure & Programme 6.1. For the future procurement process, the Council envisages utilising an 'Open Procedure' procurement strategy in full accordance with the requirements of the Procurement Act 2023 that apply to above threshold 'concession contracts'. 6.2. The envisaged outline programme which will be tested as part of the preliminary market engagement process is set out below: • Issue Tender Notice & Procurement Documents - 1st August 2025 • Tender Return Deadline - 30th September 2025 • Completion of Evaluation & Submission to Funder for Approval - 24th October 2025 • Issue Assessment Summary & Contract Award Notice - 17th November 2025 • 8 Working Day Standstill Period Completes - 27th November 2025 23:59 • Confirmation of Award - 28th November 2025
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CPV Codes
48612000 - Database-management system
51112000 - Installation services of electricity distribution and control equipment
79342310 - Customer survey services
31681500 - Rechargers
79342100 - Direct marketing services
79342200 - Promotional services
79342311 - Customer satisfaction survey
45231400 - Construction work for electricity power lines
65300000 - Electricity distribution and related services
31213000 - Distribution equipment
71311300 - Infrastructure works consultancy services
48480000 - Sales, marketing and Business intelligence software package
71314100 - Electrical services
45233270 - Parking-lot-surface painting work
79342320 - Customer-care services
45233291 - Installation of bollards
45113000 - Siteworks
79342300 - Customer services
79341200 - Advertising management services
45233290 - Installation of road signs
71510000 - Site-investigation services
79312000 - Market-testing services
79341400 - Advertising campaign services
48110000 - Point of sale (POS) software package
48445000 - Customer Relation Management software package
9310000 - Electricity
Keywords
electricity
power supply
utility power
grid electricity
energy
electrical distribution equipment
distribution panel
power distribution board
service distribution
network distribution unit
recharger unit
charging device
battery recharger
portable charger
energy replenisher
siteworks
site development services
construction site preparation
infrastructure siteworks
earthworks support
industrial site setup
utility siteworks
groundwork services
site facility preparation
construction siteworks
electric power line installation
high-voltage line construction
overhead transmission line build
power grid erection
electrical distribution infrastructure
utility line installation
energy corridor build
electric conductor installation
overhead cable line work
power transmission structure
parking lot marking
car park painting
parking space marking
bay marking
asphalt parking lines
parking lot coating
directional painting
reserved spot painting
lot striping
parking zone paint
road sign installation
traffic signage fitting
highway sign setup
regulatory sign placement
directional sign mounting
traffic sign erection
street sign placement
road marking signage
bollard installation
safety bollard fitting
traffic bollard mounting
pedestrian bollard placement
anti‑ram bollards
parking bollard installation
street bollard works
protective post fitting
POS software package
retail cash register system
sales transaction software
point-of-sale system install
checkout software
CRM platform
lead nurturing tool
customer profiling engine
sales pipeline tracker
opportunity management system
client interaction log
marketing automation suite
customer dashboard UI
contact segmentation tool
customer feedback analyzer
sales pipeline tool
lead analytics platform
campaign performance tracker
BI dashboard software
customer segmentation engine
ROI analysis tool
competitor intelligence suite
market trend predictor
sales forecasting engine
DBMS platform
client-server database
database security manager
user privilege control
concurrency control engine
data integrity module
replication manager
high-availability cluster
schema versioning tool
database audit logs
switchboard assembly
distribution panel wiring
busbar installation
relay coordination setup
control cabinet mounting
MCC panel install
circuit protection device setup
cable organzing
voltage monitoring installation
power distribution test
electric power supply
grid operation
electricity delivery
power infrastructure
electrical network management
public utility services
electricity transmission
energy distribution
electrical utility
voltage regulation
infrastructure planning consulting
public works advisory
infrastructure systems design
utilities infrastructure services
civil infrastructure consultancy
urban works advisory
infrastructure project feasibility
infrastructure engineering consultancy
municipal infrastructure support
road/rail/airport infrastructure advisory
electrical installations
electrical maintenance
wiring services
power distribution
electrical systems management
lighting installation
electrical repair works
circuit installation
electrical safety audits
power systems servicing
geotechnical analysis
soil mechanics testing
groundwater condition evaluation
bedrock profiling
foundation feasibility testing
environmental borelogging
contaminant level surveys
stratigraphic sampling
construction soil risk evaluation
laboratory soil classification
groundwater table analysis
geochemical analysis
preliminary site diagnostics
terrain behavior study
stability testing
market testing services
product testing
consumer response testing
pilot marketing
test marketing
market validation studies
prototype testing
test campaign conduction
product trial evaluation
consumer feedback collection
advertising management
ad campaign oversight
media buying management
campaign execution support
ad account management
budget management
campaign logistics
campaign services
campaign planning
campaign implementation
campaign coordination
integrated ad campaigns
thematic advertising
promotional drives
campaign execution
direct marketing
direct mail campaigns
email marketing
telemarketing
targeted marketing
customer outreach
database marketing
direct-response advertising
promotional services
event promotions
promotional staffing
product promotion
brand activation
promotional materials
giveaways
promotional event support
customer services
client support
consumer assistance
helpdesk services
service desk
customer interaction
service experience management
client relations
after-sales support
customer care
customer survey services
customer feedback surveys
satisfaction survey design
survey execution
opinion polling
client questionnaires
consumer survey analysis
customer insight gathering
satisfaction metrics
feedback collection
customer satisfaction survey
client satisfaction measurement
CSAT surveys
satisfaction benchmarking
post‑service evaluation
satisfaction index
consumer satisfaction polling
customer experience feedback
satisfaction assessment
customer-care services
customer support
proactive support
issue resolution
after-sales care
account management
service follow-up
care coordination
relationship maintenance
service recovery
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2 Tender Lots
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Possible Competitors
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