Find a TenderPast planning notice
Published 23 Sept 2021, 06:14 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Remote Mobile SIM Provisioning

Official notice

Authority: Northern Powergrid

Services
Planned pipeline value£700,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 6 Dec 2021from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Northern Powergrid, part of Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE) is seeking to let a contract for the provision of a solution to remotely manage and provision sims onto any MNO network without the need to do any interventions at the remote site. The terminal equipment will be ruggedised and in most cases will be a fixed installation.

Northern Powergrid uses a qualification system, the Utilities Vendor Database (UVDB) which is administered by Achilles Information Ltd, for supplier selection.

Companies interested in bidding for this opportunity, must be registered with the UVDB under category codes relating to Telecommunications, communications or IT solutions, in order to be considered for this opportunity. If you would like further details, please email [email protected].

Potential suppliers should note that the registration process with the UVDB can take up to 6 weeks to complete. As such, no contract notice will be issued for the requirement, as a Qualification system notice is issued by Achilles Information Ltd on behalf of the Company.

If you would like further details, please contact on how to register on Achilles, please email on [email protected].

This PIN is for information only and therefore no tender documents are available for publish at this time.

CPV: Communications equipment · Installation of telecommunications equipment · Integrated telecommunications services · Telecommunications services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Northern Powergrid wish to procure a sim solution that can be installed in any…Planned

Northern Powergrid wish to procure a sim solution that can be installed in any standard network device.

Once communication has been established over the Air Interface over any MNO, it shall be possible to re-provision the SIM onto any other MNO without the need to visit site.

The company anticipates that a contract could last up to 60 months with the option to extend for a further three x 12 months periods. Additional information: This will be dependent on whether "Solution Only" is provided or "Solution and Airtime" are provide together.

It is anticipated that the costs for the supply of sims and provisioning platform will be in the order of £700,000.

Delivery: UK · Northern Powergrid license areas across North East and Yorkshire.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
23 Sept 2021, 06:14 BST
Last source update
23 Sept 2021, 06:14 BST
FTS notice number
2021/S 000-023630
Classification (CPV)
Communications equipmentInstallation of telecommunications equipmentIntegrated telecommunications servicesTelecommunications services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
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How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

23 Sept 2021 → 6 Dec 2021 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    23 Sept 2021, 06:14 BST
  2. Tender notice expected
    6 Dec 2021

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

Northern Powergrid

Contracting authorityElectricity Lloyds Court 78 Grey Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, NE1 6AFContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.