Westminster City Council says the number of residents in the council area with an EV increased by 27% in the year to June 2023 and has reached nearly 6000. The council is looking for market information on managing its fleet of electric vehicle charge points. It intends to procure a service to manage the charge points within the next 12 months.
Westminster carried out its first pilot test of shared power supply charge points, or lamp column charge points, alongside residents’ parking bays in 2017. Since then, the council has embarked on expansion programmes in every year. It now has 2250 lamp column charge points on its public highway, 1,605 of which are in-column charge points with the remaining 645 in satellite bollards. Of these, 430 are positioned alongside dedicated resident EV charging bays, which provide for a 12 hour maximum stay while plugged in.
The charge points have all been manufactured by Ubitricity and were purchased through contracts procured via the TfL GULCS Framework. They have a working life of at least 10 years and are compatible with the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) version 1.6. Westminster says a supplier can provide a service for at least 5 years once all the initial contracts have concluded.
Wants to understand in greater detail how to could deliver this service and gain information from the market to help support its future chargepoint strategy.
It has asked for responses to a short questionnaire by midday on 7 September. This can be found at www.capitalesourcing.com, re project ref ‘RFQ/ITT: itt_WCC_17286 – WCC – Request For Information – On-Street Shared Supply EV Charge Points’.