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title: "Black Start Infrastructure and Gas engines in Northern Ireland"
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# Black Start Infrastructure and Gas engines in Northern Ireland

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/black-start-infrastructure-and-gas-engines-in-northern-ireland-ocds-h6vhtk-02b146). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** EP UK INVESTMENTS LTD: "Black Start Infrastructure and Gas engines in Northern Ireland". Published status: active. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 31 May 2021, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.epuki.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [EP UK INVESTMENTS LTD](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/ep-uk-investments-ltd-coh-09255154)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 31 May 2021 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Installation services of electric motors, generators and transformers
- **Delivery Location:** UKN
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02b146`

## 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/black-start-infrastructure-and-gas-engines-in-northern-ireland-ocds-h6vhtk-02b146#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [epuki.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.epuki.co.uk%2Fgetmedia%2Faf03dab3-2895-4fc1-a662-3ecfec8b4bb5%2FEPUKI-SQ-Black-Start-NI)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/black-start-infrastructure-and-gas-engines-in-northern-ireland-ocds-h6vhtk-02b146#participate

## Description
EPUKI on behalf of EPKL (together, the "Client") is inviting qualification responses from Economic Operators to Engineer, Procure and Construct (EPC) electrical infrastructure associated with black start and the provision of a new containerised Gas Engine package to provide the site standing loads which have a range from circa 1MW to 3.5MW at its Kilroot site in Northern Ireland ("Procurement"). This package of work forms part of a wider site programme.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active

- **Delivery regions:** UKN

- **Description:** Kilroot Power station has 2 coal fired units, 4 GT units and a Battery Energy Storage System ("BESS"). Soon the 2 coal fired units may be decommissioned and 1 or 2 new gas-fired Open Cycle Gas Turbine ("OCGT") 4 peaking units will be installed. These...
- **Contract Period:** 31/07/2021 to 

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F010709-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-05-14T14:14:13.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T01:05:36.227Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02b146