Australia - HRE Act Technical & Commercial Evaluation Support

Description

For the purposes of section 11(2)(e) of the HRE Act, criteria need to be specified in the call for applications for Renewable Energy Feasibility Licenses (REFL).
Under Regulation 12 the criteria for assessing the tender applications are prescribed. One of the prescribed criteria require the applicant to address the following:

A description of the proposed project and its intended uses, timeframes and operating model including evaluation of technical and commercial risks that could impact the viability and deliverability of the proposal within the proponent’s specified timeframe, including strategies to mitigate such risks.

To evaluate the Renewable Energy Feasibility Licenses applications, DEM are proposing to establish an assessment panel comprising of various skill sets required to address the quality of applications against each of the relevant criteria.
However, in the case of the above identified prescribed criteria, DEM lacks the internal expertise and needs to source external expert panel of suppliers with relevant skill and experience in technical and commercial aspects of large-scale renewable energy and end use of such energy projects – including hydrogen as a feedstock to other industrial uses such as petrochemical and power generation and/or export.
This expert panel member must be able to provide quality reporting and advice to the DEM REFL Assessment Panel on the technical readiness of REFL applicants proposals, both for the renewable energy generation component and the end use component of the proposal. The advice must also address any current foreseeable risks that could negatively impact the feasible deployment of the technology within the timeframes proposed by the applicant and the strategies proposed by the applicant to mitigate any such risks.
Given REFL applicants are unknown at present, to mitigate risk of confidentiality or conflict of interest (CCOI) existing between REFL applicants and the supplier providing feasibility assessment, the establishment of a panel to select suitable supplier that has appropriate strategies in place to manage and avoid any actual, potential or perceived CCOI, or to select alternate supplier on a case-by-case basis to ensure the feasibility assessments are free of any bias or probity issues.

Opportunity closing date

10 May 2024

Value of contract

to be confirmed