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# 2025 - National Grid - Request to Participate in tender establishing a Global Capability Centre for Engineering Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-national-grid-request-to-participate-in-tender-establishing-a-global-capability-centr-ocds-h6vhtk-05939e). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NATIONAL GRID UK LIMITED: "2025 - National Grid - Request to Participate in tender establishing a Global Capability Centre for Engineering Services". Published status: active. Published Value: £250,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 29 Sept 2025, 17:00 BST. Published submission portal: forms.office.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [NATIONAL GRID UK LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/national-grid-uk-limited-coh-04508773)
- **Published Value:** £250,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 29 September 2025 at 17:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive flexible procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Administration, defence and social security services, Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security, Engineering services, IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 6 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-national-grid-request-to-participate-in-tender-establishing-a-global-capability-centr-ocds-h6vhtk-05939e#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05939e`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-national-grid-request-to-participate-in-tender-establishing-a-global-capability-centr-ocds-h6vhtk-05939e#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [forms.office.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2Fr%2F37mdZZdR66)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-national-grid-request-to-participate-in-tender-establishing-a-global-capability-centr-ocds-h6vhtk-05939e#participate

## Description
This notice invites participants to submit a request to participate in a competitive flexible procedure for the award of a contract under Section 19 of the Procurement Act 2023.
This is not an invitation to submit tenders.
National Grid (NG) is an energy company operating in the UK and US. We deliver electricity and gas safely, reliably and efficiently to the customers and communities we serve - all while working towards a clean energy future.
The company is currently undergoing a strategic transformation of its Enterprise Business Services (EBS) organisation and as part of this initiative is successfully operating Engineering Support Services (ESS) activity in India via an incumbent supplier arrangement.
ESS is a proven, flexible, and scalable model providing highly skilled engineering support services with diverse technical, project, and analytics skills via an outsource model that transforms engineering processes.
At National Grid, these engineering services activities include, but are not limited to, System Modelling and Early Development, Work Management Support, Asset Management Support, Project Controls and Data Management Support.
We now wish to create our own Global Capability Centre (GCC) to deliver engineering services at scale and at pace, and we are looking for a single supplier* to
I.	Establish, grow and deliver engineering services capability at pace
II.	Co-create and collaborate with us to design the road map to get to the desired end state of an NG-led GCC
III.	Play an active role as we develop a detailed project plan and 
Statement of Work that allows us to establish an NG-led Global Capability Centre.
IV.	Operationalise the Global Capability Centre
This notice is for a wide range of services (and, where applicable, supporting goods, works or services) to support National Grid achieve its target end-state of a Global Capability Centre for engineering services in India.
Our preference is to establish its GCC using a design build, operate and transfer model, however we are open to other pathways
Phase 1 - Design
The successful party collaborates with NG to define the requirements of our GCC including location, physical space, office layout, IT infrastructure and network connectivity, service standards and operational requirements and compliance with local laws and regulations. These requirements must satisfy our needs for today and future needs.
This phase ensures the GCC is tailored to NG's strategic and operational needs before the Build phase and has the necessary plans and documentation, budget and internal approvals.
Phase 2 - Build
The successful party establishes the GCC infrastructure, recruits talent and focuses on delivering the planned design on time and within scope and budget.  We expect National Grid will be responsible to set up legal entities and gain regulatory approvals.
Phase 3 - Operate
The successful party will deliver and manage day-to-day operations including engineering services and the necessary enabling f...
> [Read full procurement scope and specification on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-national-grid-request-to-participate-in-tender-establishing-a-global-capability-centr-ocds-h6vhtk-05939e)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 71300000, 72000000, 75000000, 79000000

- **Estimated Value:** £250,000,000

- **Contract Period:** 31/08/2026 to 31/08/2031
- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F053715-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-09-24T13:32:59.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-21T12:31:11.124Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05939e