Official UK procurement notice
Great Grid Partnership · UK public procurement notice
Authority: NATIONAL GRID ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION PLC (Public body)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionNGET has appointed partners (Enterprise Partners) with the capacity and capability to deliver its strategic infrastructure priorities through a collaborative delivery model (the Great Grid Partnership). The procurement comprises two lots:
- Lot 1 is a design, consenting and environmental services lot under which NGET has appointed two Enterprise Partners plus one Reserve Partner (the appointment of the Reserve Partner remains subject to contract as at the date of publication of this notice).
- Lot 2 is a construction works and services lot under which NGET has appointed five Enterprise Partners plus one Reserve Partner (the appointment of the Reserve Partner remains subject to contract as at the date of publication of this notice).
The contractual arrangements comprise a main Enterprise Agreement regulating the rights and obligations of NGET and the Enterprise Partners, with call-off contracts for individual packages using the NEC4 family of contracts.
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Construction work · Electricity distribution and related services · Installation services of electrical equipment · Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 8 bids on the busiest of 2 lots · 9 suppliers appointed
Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · all with a published value · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1Design, consenting and environmental servicesAwardedRenewalPublished value£580,000,000
Please refer to the contract notice that was published on 30 May 2023 with notice reference 2023/S 000-015304 (the Contract Notice).
Lot #2ConstructionAwardedRenewalPublished value£8,700,000,000
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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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).
Published sub-criteria (4)
- Technical: 30%
- Integration: 30%
- Behaviours: 10%
- Commercial: 30%
Published award criteria (5)
- Technical: 30%
- Integration: 30%
- Behaviours: 10%
- Acceptance of Enterprise Agreement: P/F
- Commercial: 30%
- Suitability
Please see the PQQ.
- Shortlisting
- Please see the PQQ.
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “Great Grid Partnership” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 4 May 2023, 09:34 BST
- Last source update
- 30 May 2024, 16:07 BST
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-016929- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03c630Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Review procedure
In accordance with Part 5 (Remedies) of The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016 No. 274).
Publisher note: As anticipated by the Contract Notice, NGET has appointed a Reserve Partner in each Lot, alongside the Enterprise Partners. The Reserve Partners are Jacobs UK Limited (Lot 1) and Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions Limited (Lot 2). The final appointment of the Reserve Partners in each Lot remains subject to contract as at the date of publication of this notice. All financial values stated in this notice replicate those in the Contract Notice which were calculated using then-current prices plus assumed inflation based on RPI forecast rates to 2032. All of these values are estimates only and the final outturn values will depend on the precise works and services required to be delivered, the means of delivery, the way in which programme and project risks materialise, the actual rates of inflation up to completion of the programme, and other factors. Please refer to the Contract Notice for details of the scale of this procurement, the identified projects and the wider scope of the Great Grid Partnership. The Great Grid Partnership constitutes a single programme to achieve National Grid's Great Grid Upgrade (https://www.nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade). It is currently anticipated that this programme will be delivered by the Enterprise Partners through the Enterprise Agreement and the call-off contracts awarded under it, and the full scope of that is included in the scope advertised by the Contract Notice. However, and without limiting that, the works and services awarded to Enterprise Partner(s) may extend beyond that to involve additional works and services, through the award of further contracts in reliance on the procedure in Regulation 50(1)(f) of the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 and/or any successor provision in the new Procurement Act 2023, when enacted, concerning direct awards for additional or repeat or similar works or services (including, without limitation, paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023, for the purposes of which this contract award notice together with the Contract Notice is to be regarded as a "tender notice or any tender document"). Any contracts for new works or services consisting in the repetition of similar works or services will conform to the Great Grid Upgrade programme and / or a particular project for which packages are called-off under the Great Grid Partnership. The Enterprise Agreement may be awarded by, or novated to, a member of the National Grid group other than NGET.
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 30 Jun 2023, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Supplier levy on call-offs (max %)
- document
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
Timeline
31 May 2023 → 30 May 2024 · 4 dates- Next notice expected31 May 2023, 00:00 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown30 Jun 2023, 12:00 BST
- Invitations to tender expected1 Aug 2023, 00:00 BST
- Notice published30 May 2024, 16:07 BST
Notice history
6 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 30 May 2023- Published value published: £9,280,000,00030 May 2023, 16:46 BST
- Status changed to active30 May 2023, 16:46 BST
- Procurement method changed30 May 2023, 16:46 BST
- Deadline published: 30 Jun 2023, 12:00 BST30 May 2023, 16:46 BST
- Buyer details updated30 May 2023, 16:46 BST
- Status changed to complete30 May 2024, 16:07 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast2 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Contract 016929-2024-1
- Signed
- 30 Apr 2024
- Value
- £580,000,000
- Status
- active
Contract 016929-2024-2
- Signed
- 30 Apr 2024
- Value
- £8,700,000,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Design, consenting and environmental services | 5bids · 5 electronic | — | — | — |
| 2 · Construction | 8bids · 8 electronic | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of England and WalesReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
9 commercial parties on the notice- AECOM Arup Joint VentureFramework contractor
- Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions Limited (Reserve Partner)Framework contractor
- J Murphy and Sons LimitedFramework contractor
- Jacobs UK Limited (Reserve Partner)Framework contractor
- Laing O'Rourke Delivery LimitedFramework contractor
- Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure LimitedFramework contractor
- Morrison Energy Services (Transmission Networks) LimitedFramework contractor
- Powerteam Electrical Services (UK) Limited (t/a Omexom); and VINCI Construction UK Limited (t/a Taylor Woodrow) JVFramework contractor
- WSP UK LimitedFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria