Official UK procurement notice
Professional Qualifications (Electrical Distribution Sector)
Authority: UK POWER NETWORKS (OPERATIONS) LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionUK Power Networks is an Electricity Distribution Network covering the South East, Greater London, and East of England. We also have responsibility for private electricity networks which include Gatwick Airport, Heathrow Airport, Stansted Airport, London Airport, HS1, Canary Wharf, MOD Aldershot, and Salisbury Plan.
UK Power Networks delivers its own craft apprenticeship and is registered with DfE as an Employer-Provider.
UK Power Networks operates a Supported Studies programme for the employees providing an opportunity for them to develop the skills and knowledge required for career development.
Our Need:
We are conducting preliminary market engagement to understand experiences of delivering training to the electricity distribution networks. The purpose of the preliminary questions is help us gain market insight to shape the subsequent tender process, refining our requirements, identifying best practice and evaluation methods. By incorporating supplier feedback, UK Power Networks aims to create a more informed, competitive, and effective tender process that leads to the successful implementation of the training package.
CPV: Education and training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Oct 2025, 15:39 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Oct 2025, 16:36 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-064929- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ae7aFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Oct 2025 → 1 Sept 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published373 days ago13 Oct 2025, 15:39 BST
- Market engagement324 days ago30 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
Responses are being gathered via a Microsoft Forms Survey which can be found here: forms.office.com/e/mCrwUX8mWB ↗
Please view the scope of work here: ukpowernetworks.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/ProcurementDoc… ↗
Please note that this is intended as an information gathering exercise. Participation in the survey is no indication of a commitment to participate in any future tendering process, nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and organisations who participate.
- Contract starts51 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 13 Oct 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Oct 2025, 15:39 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Oct 2025, 16:36 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Scope of work link has been updated
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender