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# Pre-Qualification Test Transformer – High Voltage (HV) Supply

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pre-qualification-test-transformer-high-voltage-hv-supply-ocds-h6vhtk-0502c6). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** ORE Catapult: "Pre-Qualification Test Transformer – High Voltage (HV) Supply". Published status: complete. Published Value: £1,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 4 Jun 2025, 15:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.delta-esourcing.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [ORE Catapult](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/ore-catapult-GB-PPON-PYJB-8958-TLYW)
- **Published Value:** £1,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 4 June 2025 at 15:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** High voltage installation work, Voltage transformers
- **Delivery Location:** UKC21
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £1,114,992 (exc. VAT, 1 award)
- **Official Documents:** 4 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pre-qualification-test-transformer-high-voltage-hv-supply-ocds-h6vhtk-0502c6#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0502c6`

## 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/pre-qualification-test-transformer-high-voltage-hv-supply-ocds-h6vhtk-0502c6#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [delta-esourcing.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.delta-esourcing.com)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pre-qualification-test-transformer-high-voltage-hv-supply-ocds-h6vhtk-0502c6#participate

## Description
ORE Catapult is seeking build on its capability to test HV cable systems at its testing facility in Blyth, Northumberland and as such is seeking to establish a facility for pre-qualification (PQ) testing of alternating current (AC) submarine export cables.   
The facility shall be able to accommodate testing of cables up to a maximum length of 200 m with potential voltage levels of interest.  It is also anticipated that this HV Test Supply will be used to test short (20m) lengths of cables using 600 kV water terminations to breakdown, at voltages up to 600 kV.
To view this notice, please click here: 
https://orecatapult.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=980860284

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 31172000, 45315400
- **Delivery regions:** UKC
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £1,000,000

- **Contract Period:** 01/07/2025 to 31/05/2026

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

  - Supplier(s): **TransVolt Power Solutions**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH:16091172`
  - Value: £1,114,992 (exc. VAT)
  - Date: 16/09/2025

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,124,492
  - Signed Date: 08/10/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F015066-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-10-10T11:05:11.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-23T03:22:09.556Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0502c6