Official UK procurement notice
FW Services - Specialist Engineering Services 1030
Authority: SCOTTISH HYDRO ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION PLC (Public body)
What is being bought4 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionSSEN Transmission is the licence holder for the transmission system in the north of Scotland. To meet the government’s target for renewable generation, and for the development of the existing infrastructure, significant work is being undertaken on the transmission system. This work includes the building and rebuilding of overhead lines, the development of grid substations, the construction of HVDC converter and cable systems, and the construction of FACTS devices. The projects and work being undertaken are in line with the NESO (National Electric System Operator) published Holistic Network Design (HND, Pathway to 2030 and Beyond 2030) reports. SSEN Transmission is responsible for delivering the complex technology and network solutions relating to any Scottish Island or network solutions with offshore assets. Particularly, any electricity system transmission infrastructure, either offshore or onshore, including HVDC, FACTs, AC networks, cable systems, and offshore installations
The purpose of establishing this Services Framework is to ensure SSEN Transmission has access to a range of specialist engineering services.
The Services will include but not be limited to engineering competencies related to engineering management, engineering drawings, plant/equipment/system specification, electrical design, civil design, offshore installation design, offshore works, construction-site support, installation support, commissioning support, consent related works, engineering compliance, risk management, risk analysis, and design assurance.
The Consultant will be able to provide support during all project stages including concept, option selection, FEED, detailed design, manufacturing, testing, construction, installation, and commissioning stages.
The Services will be Lotted.
Lot 1: HVDC & FACTS: Expertise in all aspects of HVDC and FACTS devices.
Lot 2 :Cable Systems: Expertise in HV Cable Systems, covering both AC and DC technology for land and submarine applications.
Lot 3; AC Networks: Expertise in all aspects of AC Networks.
Lot 4: Offshore and Subsea Services: Expertise in preparing requirements and specification documents to provide technical direction and governance for the design, delivery, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning of offshore substation installations.
- How the procedure runs: PQQ to be issued - Two step procedure under PA23 utilising Jaggaer / Find a tender. Following PQQ evaluation, down selection will be made to move to ITT stage. Awards will be made per Lot. Total of four (4) available Lots
CPV: Engineering design services · Engineering services · Technical services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Closed framework
- Call-offs
- call-offs may be awarded directly or by further competition
- Framework period
- 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs from 10 Dec 2025
Published description of the framework
Detailed in PQQ / ITT documentation
Lots and requirements (4)Procurement structure
4 lots · all with a published value · same conditions of participation on every lotEvery one of these 4 lots carries the same published figure, £55,000,000: it is the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each lot's own budget, and no share per lot is published. The cards below say ceiling above rather than repeat it.
Lot #1HVDC & FACTSRenewalceiling above
Expertise for all aspects of HVDC & FACTS devices including but
not limited to:
(1) System design,
(2) Network & system studies,
(3) Earthing system design,
(4) Station / Equipment layout design,
(5) Plant & Equipment design / testing,
(6) DC Control & Protection design and settings development,
(7) DC Control & Protection system testing using PSCAD and RSCAD/RTDS,
(8) AC & DC Control & Protection interfacing and integration,
(9) AC Protection & Control scheme designAC Protection & Control setting calculation including short-circuit modelling and
calculations,
(11) Operator interfaces & SCADA systems,
(12) Auxiliary power systems,
(13) Secondary mechanical & electrical systems,
(14) Commissioning and commissioning management, and
(15) Operations & maintenance.
- Economic & financial standing
As per PQQ documentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per PQQ documentation
Lot #2Cable SystemsRenewalceiling above
Expertise for HV Cable Systems: This scope pertains to AC and DC
technology, for land and submarine applications.
(1) Cable system design (i.e., thermal rating calculations using both analytical and finite
element methods, induced voltages / currents, electro-magnetic fields, etc),
(2) Cable routing design and risk assessment,
(3) Installation design (i.e., pulling tensions, thermo-mechanical & marine engineering
calculations),
(4) Mechanical protection design,
(5) Monitoring & communication fibre optic cable system design,
(6) Testing and test witnessing (factory and site),
(7) Site and vessel representation for installation activities,
(8) Factory audit (quality & technical),
(9) Failure investigation and root cause analysis (RCA),
(10) Reliability, availability & maintainability analysis,
(11) Operations & maintenance strategy and planning,
(12) Technical training to Employer’s personnel,
(13) Diagnosis, analysis, and interpretation of cable system health & integrity based on
monitoring data acquired from field.
- Economic & financial standing
As per PQQ documentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per PQQ documentation
Lot #3AC NetworksRenewalceiling above
Expertise for all aspects of AC Networks including but not limited
to:
(1) Station design,
(2) Earthing system design,
(3) Plant & Equipment design / testingProtection & Control scheme design,
(5) Protection & Control setting calculation including short-circuit modelling and
calculations,
(6) Protection & Control system testing,
(7) Operator interfaces & SCADA systems,
(8) Overhead line design, consenting, and installation,
(9) Auxiliary power systems,
(10) Secondary mechanical & electrical systems,
(11) Commissioning and commissioning management, and
(12) Operations & maintenance
- Economic & financial standing
As per PQQ documentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per PQQ documentation
Lot #4Offshore and Subsea ServicesRenewalceiling above
Expertise for all aspects of preparation of requirements &
specification documents to provide technical direction and governance for design, delivery,
operation, maintenance, and decommissioning of offshore substation installations
including but not limited to:
(1) Site selection and desktop studies for option selection stage,
(2) Cable routing design and selection including burial risk assessment (CBRA),
(3) Unexploded ordinance (UXO) survey and risk assessment,
(4) Cable protection system (CPS) design and analysis,
(5) On-bottom stability and free span analysis for subsea cable installation,
(6) Burial assessment study (BAS) for subsea cable installation,
(7) Design, feasibility and risk assessment for horizontal directional drilling (HDD),
(8) Corrosion analysis for subsea cable installation,
(9) Loadout, spooling, unspooling of subsea cable systems,
(10) Jacket primary & topside secondary structural design,
(11) Pile foundation and grouted connection for jacket sleeved piles,
(12) Geotechnical ground modelling and interpretation (structures, piles, and subsea
cable installation)
(13) Metocean interpretation for structural design jacket & topside,
(14) Fabrication, transportation, and installation studies (HLV & float over options),
(15) Material, fabrication, corrosion, & protection design for topside and substructure,
(16) LV electrical design for ducting, cable routing and cable cabinets, interfacing with
topside structural design
(17)Lifecycle and condition monitoring for jacket primary and secondary topside
structures,
(18) Operations and maintenance requirements for complete offshore substation asset,
(19) Design risk management, from concept design through to decommissioning,
(20) Decommissioning, and
(21) Design verification and certification support
- Economic & financial standing
As per PQQ documentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per PQQ documentation
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Economic & financial standing
As per PQQ documentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per PQQ documentation
- “FW Services - Specialist Engineering Services 1030” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract: call-offs may be direct or by further competition.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Jul 2025, 14:09 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Sept 2025, 11:16 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 24 Nov 2025
- Authority reference
10244- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-051536- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055cfbFind a Tender
- How it runs
PQQ to be issued - Two step procedure under PA23 utilising Jaggaer / Find a tender. Following PQQ evaluation, down selection will be made to move to
ITT stage. Awards will be made per Lot. Total of four (4) available Lots
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 2 Oct 2025, 12:00 BST
- Appointment period ends
- 2 Oct 2025, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 25 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission plc invite interested suppliers to view the PQQ Documents on our Jaggaer eprocurement system under "Current Opportunities" here:
sse.app.jaggaer.com/esop/guest/go/opport… ↗
Full details of the service required and how to respond to the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire can be found on that page
Timeline
10 Jul 2025 → 10 Dec 2025 · 8 dates- Planning notice published10 Jul 2025, 14:09 BST
- Tender notice published27 Aug 2025, 11:38 BST
- Latest notice published394 days ago22 Sept 2025, 11:16 BST
- Clarification questions by391 days ago25 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST
- Next notice expected385 days ago30 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
- Admission / appointment period ends384 days ago · period end, not a bid countdown2 Oct 2025, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by330 days ago24 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts315 days ago10 Dec 2025
Notice history
7 events · 5 releases on Find a Tender · since 10 Jul 2025- Pipeline notice published10 Jul 2025, 14:09 BSTUK1
- Tender notice published27 Aug 2025, 11:38 BSTUK4
- Status changed to active27 Aug 2025, 11:38 BST
- Procurement method changed27 Aug 2025, 11:38 BST
- Tender notice published27 Aug 2025, 14:11 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published27 Aug 2025, 14:24 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published22 Sept 2025, 11:16 BSTUK4
Published amendments (1)
Submission deadline extension to 02/10/25
Routine re-releases (5)
- 2025-08: 1 release · 27 Aug 2025
- 2025-07: 1 release · 10 Jul 2025
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (5)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender