Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 5 Jun 2025, 00:00 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Request for Information – Engineered Electricity Poles – SSEN 2025

Official notice

Authority: Southern Electric Power Distribution plc

GoodsAbove thresholdUtilitiesSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£1,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 26 Jun 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 moends 26 Jul 2025 · starts 27 Jun 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Scottish 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 published
Lot #1Planned 1 moSME
Contract period: 27 Jun 2025 – 26 Jul 2025 (1 mo)
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligible

Procedure 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)
Electricity polesPoles for carrying overhead lines
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-054329 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

5 Jun 2025 → 27 Jun 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    5 Jun 2025, 00:00 BST
  2. Tender notice expected
    26 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
  3. Market engagement
    26 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:

    sse.app.jaggaer.com/esop/guest/go/opport… ↗

  4. Contract starts
    27 Jun 2025, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    5 Jun 2025, 00:00 BST
    UK2

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

SOUTHERN ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION PLC

Contracting authorityPrivate utility GB-COH: 04094290 No.1 Forbury Place, 43 Forbury Road, Reading, South East, RG1 3JHContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure