Tender Results of Ofgem

Credit Rating Agency Licenses-Ofgem requires two rating agencies provide independent analysis of the credit worthiness of the companies that Ofgem regulate. The licences include the requirement to maintain an investment grade rating from one of these agencies and this requirement forms a cornerstone of delivering a financial resilient sector for the benefit of consumers. Access to the credit rating agencies will enable Ofgem to: - Access independent analysis on the credit worthiness of companies Ofgem regulate principa...

NCSC Cyber Incident Response (CIR) Service-The NCSC recommends that all UK organisations should use an NCSC-assured Cyber Incident Response provider when dealing with cyber incidents. Ofgem therefore requires a CIR Assured supplier to help to recover from major cyber incidents (if applicable) and deliver a full investigation of the incident along with recommendations on how to prevent it happening again.

Board Effectiveness Review-Good practice in corporate governance is for Boards to review their own effectiveness every year, and to have externally facilitated board evaluations at least every three years. This is also a government requirement for arms-length bodies. Ofgem wishes to carry out a board effectiveness review that fulfils the traditional requirements, including: a) Providing independent feedback on how well the Board carries out its duties and how this compares with best practice and relevant corporate g...

Digital Services and Consultancy Neutral Vendor-The provision of Neutral Vendor Managed Services for Professional Services to connect Ofgem with suppliers whilst controlling spend, mitigating risk and adding value to each and every project. Supporting Ofgem will include but not limited to, identifying the best routes to market, ensure sub-contracted providers are compliant with UK law and best practice governance and essential cyber security, manage the sub-contracted provider to ensure deliverables are achieved on time and on budget and to t...

Secure Design and Cyber Assurance Service-The required services from the supplier is to deliver security architecture, assurance and compliance service to align Ofgem with cyber assessment framework (CAF). The supplier will be required to carry out gap analysis, cyber risk assessment and provide security support aligned with National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) guidance and standards.

Ofgem RER MVP Development-The supplier will work with Ofgem as co-sourcing partner to deliver the MVP Development scope for the Renewable Electricity Register (RER). The next major project milestone is the launch of Public Beta, which is planned for January 2025. The key milestones to deliver the Public Beta launch are completing the recently surfaced additional MVP requirements development, MVP QA, MVP UAT, End to End Testing and data migration from the legacy system. The outstanding scope to deliver RER's MVP is d...

Governance Planning and Operational Model for Heat Networks Regulatory Framework-Ofgem requires support on the Heat Networks Programme to provide Programme Management and in particular with respect to transforming a Programme from policy into delivery

2024-092 - Interconnector Economic Modelling-To create an additional scenario for the existing cost-benefit model that substitutes the Future Energy Scenarios (Europe) with data from TYNDP 2022 and then conduct a re-run of the model for the two projects connecting to Ireland.

Rating Agency Licences Database-Ofgem requires the ability to obtain data export facility which enables Retail Financial Monitoring (RFM) to place a search for all licensees of interest and obtain an excel based export of financial statement data for all entities specified.

Business Change Services Consultancy-The provision of continuous improvement of business service delivery across the IT estate. A recent study completed several pieces of work to initiate, implement and recommend change under their Spin Cycle methodology. The new programme is required to implement multiple areas of change, covering support and access to expertise to design, advise and implement these changes within Ofgem.