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# C410 (2025) Low Voltage Monitoring

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/c410-2025-low-voltage-monitoring-ocds-h6vhtk-046ed0). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Northern Ireland Electricity Networks Limited: "C410 (2025) Low Voltage Monitoring". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: £20,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Northern Ireland Electricity Networks Limited](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/northern-ireland-electricity-networks-limited-GB-COH-NI026041)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £20,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Detection and analysis apparatus, Detection apparatus, Electronic detection apparatus, Fault detectors, Machines and apparatus for testing and measuring (+2 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UKN
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-046ed0`

## Before you bid
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- **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/c410-2025-low-voltage-monitoring-ocds-h6vhtk-046ed0#tl-md)

## Description
NIE Networks intends to undertake a procurement process to acquire, install and manage Low Voltage (LV) monitoring devices for pole mounted and ground mounted secondary substations. LV monitoring devices will be located across NIE Networks’ infrastructure providing granular data from secondary substations to increase the visibility of low voltage distribution networks. This is critical for cost efficient LV network planning and operation in the face of rapid growth in distributed generation and flexible low carbon technologies driving more dynamic and complex power flows. LV monitors will measure voltage from busbars and current from LV feeders used to calculate other electrical features such as active, reactive, apparent power, current and voltage harmonics. These measurements will support use cases of LV monitoring data for LV network operation and LV network planning such as transformer loading and cable health assessment. Records will be periodically reported and stored in a data centre, allowing access to NIE Networks engineers for the analysis, planning and operation of the LV distribution network. 
NIE Networks intends to establish a framework arrangement under which it shall appoint economic operators to enter into separate framework agreements. It is anticipated that each framework agreement awarded will be for a period of five (5) years with an option, exercisable entirely at the discretion of the contracting entity and subject to the terms of the framework agreement, to extend by a further optional period of up to three (3) years, with a total potential duration of eight (8) years.
NIE Networks estimates that the total spend under framework agreements could be up to £20 million over the total potential eight-year duration.
This Periodic Indicative Notice is to undertake pre-market engagement only which will inform the further development of the future procurement process.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 31642000, 38430000, 38431000, 38431300, 38540000, 71700000
- **Delivery regions:** UKN

- **Description:** NIE Networks wishes to engage with LV monitoring suppliers in order to gain a greater understanding of the current market for LV monitoring devices for secondary substations and explore the range of supplies and associated installation and data manag...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F017923-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-06-10T16:07:10.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-23T00:46:18.333Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-046ed0