Social Housing Energy Retrofit Framework Service
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TIMELINE
RfP publication date: March 5th, 2026
Questions submitted to C40: March 12th, 2026
C40 responds to questions: March 16th, 2026
Deadline for receiving Offers: March 26th, 2026, 23:59 SAST
Evaluation of Proposal: March 30th, 2026 – April 8th, 2026
Appointment and regret notifications: April 10th, 2026
Inception meeting: April 20th, 2026
Project initiation phase must be completed by: April 24th, 2026
Project end date is expected to be completed by: March 31st, 2027
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Issuing Agency
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Inc.
Organization overview and procurement intelligence available on paid plans.
DESCRIPTION
This RFP seeks a vendor to deliver a social housing energy retrofit framework service with a global and New York focus. The goal is to improve climate governance in cities by reducing regulatory complexity, increasing technical capacity, and unlocking financing constraints to enable effective and inclusive energy actions.
The framework includes integrated approaches to grid infrastructure and affordability, to ensure fair access to clean energy, manage grid defection risks, maintain cross-subsidisation, and expand services to informal settlements. The service will emphasize enhanced governance and capacity building to support municipal leadership in delivering equitable, climate-resilient energy solutions.
Key tasks include conducting a desktop review of selected Global South social and affordable housing retrofit programs, synthesizing transferable lessons on sequencing, affordability, and institutional models, and clarifying definitions of social housing and city-level enabling roles. The vendor will also develop a screening-level baseline energy estimation framework applicable to each housing typology, utilizing available secondary data, including GIS or spatial datasets, to create a high-level spatial overview of social housing stock per metro area.
Source attribution
This Settle analysis is based on the issuing organization’s public RFP listing.