Deliver on target, efficient and effective energy projects in the UK
Accelerate your energy project via our SCAPE Utilities frameworks
At SCAPE, we have shaped frameworks to accelerate access to specialist construction and consultancy suppliers, so you can achieve your project targets efficiently and effectively.
We provide a range of Gold Standard Accredited Utilities frameworks that are UCR compliant and enable you to deliver low carbon energy solutions that meet community demands and sustainability goals through works and services, and consultancy.
Read on to discover how our frameworks can accelerate your energy projects today!
Why work with SCAPE?
Get immediate access to the resources you need for your energy project.
We support you with best practice, offering skills and resource support through an extensive local and national supply chain. Our UCR compliant frameworks are structured to save you time on the lengthy procurement process, providing cost-effective solutions with benchmarked rates from our suppliers, ensuring you access the right capabilities at the right price.
Using our frameworks means you unlock early contractor involvement so you can define and shape your energy project brief at the very start of your project or commission; saving you procurement time and money by strengthening project management and minimising risk from the moment we start working together.
Our framework gives you immediate access to world class consultants, for a full range of professional services, across the entire project life-cycle including: business case, design and construction supervisory services.
What benefits will you see from using our SCAPE Utilities frameworks for energy projects?
Enhance your energy project processes through our framework.
Our frameworks are designed with a clear sustainability mandate, incorporating financial, environmental, and social measures to embody responsible procurement.
The team ensures responsible and compliant procurement through our actively managed utilities frameworks. Our framework process, gateways and milestones helps to de-risk projects, as well as better ensuring buildability and constructability from early access to ECI (Early Contractor Involvement). We work alongside client appointed design teams, delivering value-for-money and sustainable outcomes.
Our frameworks offer market-leading routes to carbon reduction, social value delivery, and the digitisation of construction, helping clients achieve legislative compliance and deliver better, more cost-effective, value-driven projects.
A main benefit of using our framework for your energy projects is the instant access to the best-in-class delivery partners who work collaboratively with you to ensure your project is a success. A simple, no cost access agreement is all that is required to discuss your requirements with a delivery partner.
How our framework supports you
Widen capacity, increasing how energy can be stored, generated and transported
Accelerated procurement: speeding up your route to market
Early contractor involvement
Free project viability review
Increased resilience
Compliance
Cost certainty
Programme certainty
Performance management
Utilities delivery partners for projects in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland
Our utilities framework delivery partners have been specifically chosen as they can evidence their past achievements and have consistently demonstrated that best practice and innovation is embedded within their operations, policies, and processes to deliver projects that achieve enhanced community outcomes.
The SCAPE team can support your energy projects through two dedicated Utilities frameworks:
- Utilities Consultancy framework: you can deliver your project in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland with the support of AtkinsRealis or Perfect Circle.
- Utilities Works and Services framework: partner with Kier or McLaughlin & Harvey for project delivery in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland.
Partners who support across England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Utilities delivery partners for projects across Scotland
Our partners are dedicated to providing a first-class experience at every interaction and on every project. They work collaboratively to focus on your key project drivers, ensuring that your local economic needs and energy aspirations are met.
Our dedicated SCAPE Scotland team is here to help you find solutions for your energy projects to maximise social, environmental, and economic impact. We offer two tailored frameworks in Scotland to support your goals:
- Utilities Consultancy framework: you can deliver your project in Scotland with expert support from Arcadis or Perfect Circle.
- Utilities Works and Services framework: partner with McLaughlin & Harvey or RJ McLeod to optimise your energy projects across Scotland.
Partners who support across Scotland
FAQs about energy projects
How can I ensure compliance with energy regulations and policies?
All our frameworks are fully compliant with the UK and Scotland's Utilities Contracts Regulations. As a public sector procurement authority, you can be assured that we'll adhere to public procurement rules and regulations.
Our team can offer you guidance and assistance with compliance but you will remain responsible for undertaking your own due diligence on projects by seeking your own independent legal and professional advice.
Our legal guidance and support services include:
- Ensuring the framework procurement processes, framework agreements and NEC-based template delivery agreements are fully compliant
- Guidance over any changes proposed to the call-off contract
- Offering guidance on the consistency and compatibility of certain standard procurement documentation and templates with SCAPE framework provisions and template call-off contracts, suggesting any necessary amendments to achieve compliance with our frameworks.
- Guidance on risk allocation in the context of framework compliance.
What support is available for delivering energy projects in the UK?
Our frameworks provide a range of support required for delivering exceptional energy projects across the UK. By partnering with us, you benefit from a dedicated framework manager who oversees your project's progress, along with a commercial auditing team that evaluates your contractor's performance and provides detailed reports throughout the project's lifecycle.
We offer two key frameworks:
- Utilities Works and Services framework: This framework is designed to support and empower utility sector organisations, helping them accelerate their energy programmes and projects.
- Utilities Consultancy framework: This framework gives you access to a suite of professional services, including strategic advice, engineering services, design services, project management, and quantity surveying.
We offer free viability studies (Works & Services framework), active management, dedicated support, extensive local supply chains, and integrated social value and sustainability measures so you have all the support required throughout the life cycle of your energy project.
How can I optimise resource allocation during my energy projects?
Once you sign an access agreement to use the SCAPE Utilities framework, you immediately gain access to a team of experts who can enhance your project's resources. If you're facing resource challenges during your energy project, you can use our SCAPE utilities consultancy partners to provide specialised expertise in specific areas and roles, preventing delays and optimising resource allocation.
We also provide free project viability reviews for all our clients. This collaborative process helps determine if your project is financially sustainable and appropriately planned.
These reviews enable you to identify and allocate the necessary resources effectively, ensuring high-quality outcomes while minimising risks and waste throughout your energy project.
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