Invitation to Tender: Provision of Services to Support the Delivery of the Loughborough University-Led Programme, ‘Accelerating eCooking Uptake in Africa and South Asia (ACUASA).’

Lot 2: Institutional eCooking Support for ASCENT in East Africa

Overview

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition has funded Loughborough University to undertake an innovative new project entitled Accelerating eCooking Uptake in Africa and South Asia (ACUASA).

The project is led by Professor Ed Brown, Research Director of the UK Aid-funded Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) Programme and is being delivered in collaboration with the Loughborough MECS team and ESMAP.

ACUASA is intended to serve as a flag-ship initiative of the Global Electric Cooking Coalition launched at COP28 as a vehicle for promoting electric cooking. In essence, the goal of the project is to help integrate electric cooking components within the World Bank’s comprehensive energy sector and clean air programming via a number of inter-connected partnerships with key Bank programmes.

Lot 2: Institutional eCooking Support for ASCENT in East Africa

Value: GBP £168,258

The successful applicant will work with colleagues from Loughborough University and the World Bank’s ESMAP team to meet the growing demand from ASCENT countries for support in accelerating the use of eCooking for providing institutional clean cooking solutions (as for example evidenced in the launch of the Platform for Clean Cooking in Schools at COP30). The ASCENT programme aims to accelerate the adoption of electric cooking in its target countries and is responding to requests for help in expanding institutional electric cooking solutions. This Lot of the ACUASA project will support the ASCENT programme to identify and develop necessary supply chains to support institutional eCooking (with a particular focus on Schools) and help governments promote eCooking solutions to schools and authorities within an integrated nationally-led approach to the accelerated uptake of eCooking.

Timeline 

Contracts are expected to start April 2026 (or as soon as possible) and will continue through to mid 2027.

Making a bid

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• The project is entitled LU01024– Accelerating eCooking Uptake in Africa and South Asia (ACUASA).
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Deadline

Closing date for receipt of Tenders is 23:55 (GMT) Sunday 1^st March 2026. The portal will automatically close for applications at this point and it will not be possible to make an upload. Make sure to start the upload process in good time.