National Framework Agreement for Smart Heating Systems

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, through its Commercial Procurement Services, has awarded a national framework agreement for the supply of Smart Heating Systems. Smart Heating systems incorporate control and communications technology with energy-saving heating systems to reduce costs and carbon emissions associated with heating.

Solutions primarily involve the installation of high-efficiency heaters that are connected, via a building's electrical circuit and/or wirelessly to each other and to external analytics and control centres enabling monitoring and control of energy usage, system status reporting and software updates. The system is scalable, with units working individually and together to create a coherent platform for managing buildings to drive efficiencies across estates.

The system requires zero maintenance input from the end-user and approaches as close as possible a "heating as a service" model. This will be a framework agreement with no commitment or guaranteed level of business.