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Compare home chargepoint installation quotes across 12 items

Compare every quote against the same 12 scope items and mark anything unstated as missing rather than £0. The matrix checks what professional work is included, excluded or provisional; it does not teach you to specify that work. If a grant appears, use only the 2026-04-01 to 2027-03-31 E2 rule of 75% up to £500 and label the applicant possibly eligible, never approved.

Electric Vehicle Consumer Code: EVCC's response to CMA's Invitation to Comment

Reviewed

Key facts and evidence

As of 13 August 2026, UK home-chargepoint quotes should be compared across the same 12 declared scope fields, with every omission marked missing rather than £0. The matrix compares documentation only; it does not let a householder specify fixed electrical work. Any grant figure is possibly eligible and uses only E2's dated 75%-up-to-£500 rule.

Electric Vehicle Consumer Code: EVCC's response to CMA's Invitation to Comment

Put UK home chargepoint quotes into one fixed 12-item matrix, expose missing scope and keep technical design with the installer.

The fixed 12-item comparison

1) Fixed cable route and stated inclusion assumptions. 2) Trunking or containment and finish. 3) Wall penetrations, making good and any fire-stopping responsibility. 4) Groundworks or other civils. 5) Consumer-unit or remedial-work scope. 6) Protective-device scope. 7) PEN and earthing design responsibility. 8) Surge-protective-device inclusion or exclusion. 9) CT and load-management provision. 10) DNO route, responsibility, references and charges. 11) Professional testing, certificates and commissioning records. 12) Network, connectivity, App, subscription and support terms.

Expose omissions and provisional extras

For every row, record included, excluded, provisional, missing or not applicable, plus the quoted amount where one exists. Missing never means £0. Keep VAT treatment, cancellation terms, lead time, warranty and unforeseen-work rates visible beside the 12 technical-scope rows.

Keep a grant line conditional

If a quote displays an OZEV grant, the only amount used here is 75% of eligible costs up to £500 for the E2 period 2026-04-01 to 2027-03-31. Show both the undiscounted total and conditional deduction, label the customer possibly eligible and state that approval is not guaranteed.

What to do next

Use the matrix to reveal different assumptions, omissions and provisional extras before choosing an installer.

Immediate action: Copy each written quote into the same 12 rows and request written clarification for every missing field.

  • Pause selection if survey assumptions, DNO responsibility, certification or provisional extras remain unexplained.
  • Pause grant-dependent comparison if the policy source has passed its review date.

Checks that stay with this vehicle

  1. Place every quotation into the same 12-row comparison in the stated order.

    Each installer has one visible value, inclusion, exclusion, provisional note or missing label per row.

    Stop comparing headline totals when one or more scope rows remain blank or ambiguous.

  2. Mark every unstated amount, responsibility or deliverable as missing rather than zero.

    The matrix distinguishes a confirmed zero charge from information the installer has not supplied.

    Stop if the quote software silently converts blank or unknown entries to zero.

  3. Ask the installer to clarify exclusions, provisional sums and rates for unforeseen work in writing.

    The revised quote makes responsibility and price treatment visible before contract acceptance.

    Stop if material scope changes are offered only verbally or after pressure to sign.

Do not infer from missing evidence

  • Treat every technical row as a request for the installer's written scope, not as a household specification.

Professional hand-off

  • Ask the registered EV chargepoint installer to explain technical scope and issue a revised written quotation where anything is missing.

Questions this record can answer

What does the sourced evidence say about the fixed 12-item comparison?

1) Fixed cable route and stated inclusion assumptions. 2) Trunking or containment and finish. 3) Wall penetrations, making good and any fire-stopping responsibility. 4) Groundworks or other civils. 5) Consumer-unit or remedial-work scope. 6) Protective-device scope. 7) PEN and earthing design responsibility. 8) Surge-protective-device inclusion or exclusion. 9) CT and load-management provision. 10) DNO route, responsibility, references and charges. 11) Professional testing, certificates and commissioning records. 12) Network, connectivity, App, subscription and support terms.

What does the sourced evidence say about expose omissions and provisional extras?

For every row, record included, excluded, provisional, missing or not applicable, plus the quoted amount where one exists. Missing never means £0. Keep VAT treatment, cancellation terms, lead time, warranty and unforeseen-work rates visible beside the 12 technical-scope rows.

What does the sourced evidence say about keep a grant line conditional?

If a quote displays an OZEV grant, the only amount used here is 75% of eligible costs up to £500 for the E2 period 2026-04-01 to 2027-03-31. Show both the undiscounted total and conditional deduction, label the customer possibly eligible and state that approval is not guaranteed.

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