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title: "Navigator Project"
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# Navigator Project

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/navigator-project-ocds-h6vhtk-04b0e6). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS LIMITED: "Navigator Project". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/northern-gas-networks-limited-coh-05167070)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Development consultancy services, Research and development services and related consultancy services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04b0e6`

## 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/navigator-project-ocds-h6vhtk-04b0e6#tl-md)

## Description
This project is a follow on activity to further develop a modelling system first established during the Cost of Net Zero pathway project. In that project BMA and Durham university were selected via tender event to drive the project. Given this stage now leverages that work the approach is to single source their services to expand the model created [BMA] and for Durham university to again provide that specialist critique and steerage needed for such mathematically complex process.Separately DECCC are being brought into the work to create an interface to the capacity and demand statement process they currently support annually for NGN. Their existing relationship and expertise in this area means they are first choice to develop the interface between the BMA model system and the demand statements DECCC produce each year.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** Not published
- **CPV codes:** 73000000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** This project is a follow on activity to further develop a modelling system first established during the Cost of Net Zero pathway project. In that project BMA and Durham university were selected via tender event to drive the project. Given this stage ...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 034473-2024-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Not published**

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 034473-2024-1 (active)

  - Signed Date: 17/10/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F034473-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-10-24T12:08:54.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T19:02:59.576Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04b0e6