Official UK procurement notice
UK Mobile Communications · UK public procurement notice
Authority: NATIONAL GRID UK LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe contracting entity for this contract is National Grid UK Limited, but will be available for use by any of the Group subsidiary companies within the National Grid UK Limited Group. This includes, but is not limited to National Grid Electricity Transmission, National Grid Ventures, National Grid Electricity Distribution East Midlands, National Grid Electricity Distribution West Midlands, National Grid Electricity Distribution South West and National Grid Electricity Distribution South Wales.
Delivery of Mobile Network Services including Data, Voice, Device Management and other related Services.
CPV: Telecommunications services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Mobile servicesPlanned
Mobile services
Service provision - Data services, Voice services & Voice and data services.
International roaming
International calling
Wi-fi calling - standard
IoT connectivity services
MTPAS Services
Supplied equipment (Catalogue and non-catalogue requests)
Handsets
Boosted solutions
Other mobile / network items (MIFI / accessories)
Sim and e sims
Direct to Device Satellite solution
MDM enrolment into NG's MDM platform when HW procured
In-building signal booster solution
Mobile Voice recording
Captured inbound/outbound calls and SMS messages and relays a cop to a platform in real time.
Voice only, voice and SMS or SMS only
Optional add Ons - orphaned user recorded data / bulk download / export Api / SMS to email forwarding / in call announcements / private call marking / forced comments
Service management
Account Management included
Service desk support
Reporting
Ability to record and track, business units, employee id (other user details) and if its VIP or not, do not disconnect flags against sims
Telecom Expense Management (TEM) integration
Allow for Customers TEM to manage services, including access to vendor portals and making changes to the accounts.
Allow TEM to download invoices/reporting/data - in suitable format
Project Services
Project Professional Services related to provision
Site surveys
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NATIONAL GRID UK LIMITED buys Telecommunications services (CPV 6420), and who usually turns up
NATIONAL GRID UK LIMITED’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Telecommunications services (CPV 6420) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
No supplier sizes published for this authority.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 84 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid29%
2–314%
4–614%
7+43%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate0%
Within ±2%80%
Above estimate20%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1Mobile servicesCPV 6420Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 13 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid62%
2–323%
4–68%
7+8%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Apr 2026, 16:18 BST
- Last source update
- 10 Apr 2026, 16:18 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-032958- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068052Find a Tender
Publisher note: Further to the enclosed PIN, please indicate your expression of interest and confirmation of registration of ALL UVDB codes relevant to the services you wish to provide for National Grid by emailing [email protected] You must be fully registered on Achilles and registered against ALL UVDB Codes below order to receive the Contract Notice and be invited to the Pre-Qualification Stage. 2.1.8 Telecommunication Network Services 2.1.8.1 Line Rental 2.1.8.2 Call Charges 2.1.8.3 Mobile Phones (with Service Agreement) 2.1.8.11 Voice & Data Management Services 2.1.8.12 Mobile Phone Services [email protected] can support any issues with completion of your registration process on Achilles ahead of the qualification event.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 30 Apr 2026, 17:00 BST
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
10 Apr 2026 → 30 Sept 2026 · 3 dates- Notice published194 days ago10 Apr 2026, 16:18 BST
- Submission deadline174 days ago30 Apr 2026, 17:00 BST
- Tender notice expected22 days ago30 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
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.