Official UK procurement notice
Remote Mobile SIM Provisioning
Authority: Northern Powergrid
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorthern 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 publishedLot #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.
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)
- Delivery area
- 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- Notice published23 Sept 2021, 06:14 BST
- Tender notice expected6 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
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.