Official UK procurement notice
Request for Information – Engineered Electricity Poles – SSEN 2025
Authority: Southern Electric Power Distribution plc
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionScottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), comprising both Transmission and Distribution businesses, is seeking suppliers capable of providing Engineered Electricity Poles.
For further details regarding the requirement and instructions on how to respond, please refer to the opportunity listing available on our Jaggaer e-procurement system:
sse.app.jaggaer.com/esop/guest/go/opport… ↗
The purpose of this market engagement is to gather information from the market at this stage only. This engagement does not constitute a pre-qualification process, a tender, or a guarantee of any future procurement opportunities.
Participation in this process does not imply any commitment by SSEN to enter into agreements, award contracts, or proceed with the delivery of the requirement.
The details provided are not final or binding. They serve as a preliminary guide or general indication. Changes may occur based on market conditions and final requirements.
Please note that SSEN may utilise Achilles UVDB as the initial stage of supplier selection for any procurement activity that follows this preliminary market engagement process.
Please submit your responses via email to Deborah Johnstone ([email protected]) and Susan Beveridge ([email protected]) by 3:00 PM on Thursday, 26 June 2025.
CPV: Electricity poles · Poles for carrying overhead lines
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 5 Jun 2025, 00:00 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Jun 2025, 00:00 BST
- Authority reference
Project_10748- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-030065- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-054329Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Jun 2025 → 27 Jun 2025 · 4 dates- Planning notice published5 Jun 2025, 00:00 BST
- Tender notice expected26 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
- Market engagement26 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
For further details regarding the requirement and instructions on how to respond, please refer to the opportunity listing available on our Jaggaer e-procurement system:
- Contract starts27 Jun 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Jun 2025, 00:00 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender