A. Procurement Project: Purchase of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) / Life Cycle Cost (LCC) Calculation Software
B. Intention Submission Period: March 10th to 25th, 2022
C. Procuring Entity: IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute
D. Software Requirements:
This procurement aims to acquire authorization for the following software tools:
- Robust user interface enabling diverse and multi-level superlative modeling of product systems.
- Comprehensive and diverse lifecycle unit process databases.
- Provision of support for various lifecycle impact assessment methods along with corresponding databases.
- Utilization of data resources from diverse content combination databases.
- Model editing, management, and reference functionality.
- Support for green design assessment and comparison of schemes.
- …
Additional Specific Features:
1）Provision of standalone software version.
2）Database requirements include: latest ecoinvent database, US LCI, ELCD, EU and Danish Input Output, Dutch Input Output, Industry Data v2, EI3-CN, etc.
3） Encompassing various impact assessment methods: Eco-indicator 99, USEtox, IPCC 2007, EPD, Impact 2002+, CML-IA, Ecological Footprint, EDIP 2003, Ecological Scarcity 2006, EPS 2000, Greenhouse Gas Protocol, midpoint methods, endpoint methods, and Life Cycle Cost assessment method.
4）Data processing functionalities required:
- Ability to export process flows in matrix format to Excel.
- Provision of Monte Carlo analysis for data uncertainty.
- Parametric modeling capability.
- Support for scenario analysis.
- Database editing functionality.
- Support for importing project data into the database.
- Capability to edit system descriptions.
- Database updatable as per requirements.
- Ability to present process flows.
- ……….
E. Information Submission：
Bidders are required to provide the following information:
- Software Description
- Database Description
- Detailed Quotation
F. Contact Details:
Procuring Organization: IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute Beijing Representative Office
Contact Person: Mrs Yao
Email：Juanjuan.yao@ivl.se