The Great Grid Upgrade Partnership

Organisation

NATIONAL GRID ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION PLC

Enterprise Partners in this lot will deliver architectural, engineering, engineering design, consenting and planning services. The scope is explained in the procurement documents and includes: 1) design services and 2) consenting services (including DCO services, Town and Country Planning and Section 37 services), in each case related to the outline and detailed design of OHL new build, OHL refurbishment, substation, civils and undergrounding, protection, control and cyber and multiple design; 3) environmental services related to environmental impact assessment, permitting and licensing and wider environmental assessments for projects and programmes; 4) project management services and programme management, consultancy resource to support NGET's delivery of a project and support for operational role(s). The resource requirement may comprise individual discipline elements of support or individual resource(s); and 5) acting as Principal Designer under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM) and NGET procedures. The above list of services is indicative and outlines the broad service categories rather than particulars. The services actually required may also include related, complementary or ancillary services within each category, and related information management and digital services (including hosting). The scope of this lot includes certain projects listed in Ofgem's decision on accelerating onshore electricity transmission investment (ASTI) and other identified projects that it is currently anticipated will be of similar size and value and will be identified as infrastructure to achieve Net Zero by 2050. An indicative list of such projects is contained in the pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ). The scope also comprises other ASTI projects as well as as-yet unidentified additional major projects on the high voltage electricity transmission network, the precise location and nature of which is not yet known but which will share the same key features as the other (ASTI and other identified) projects and will require the same Enterprise Partner capability. In addition to major project delivery, the scope extends to other network works of smaller size, scale and complexity, such that it is assumed Enterprise Partners will be able to deliver that alongside (and in between) the larger project commitments. It is envisaged that the Enterprise Partners will work together to innovate and collaborate to deliver the programme, meeting (or beating) the earliest in service dates for each project. This will be incentivised through a bespoke commercial model, incentivising all Enterprise Partners at programme level. Enterprise Partners will hold a notional shareholding for commercial model purposes. It is currently anticipated that the incentives payable under that model will be the principal source of profit for Enterprise Partners, derived from an additional fee, with the call-off contracts for each package delivered on a cost reimbursable basis with a smaller base fee. It is currently anticipated that harmonised fees (base and additional) will apply across all Enterprise Partners in a given lot, but the fee levels will be subject to negotiation and change through the procurement process. Where harmonisation is unachievable, the invitation to tender may make provision for fee levels to be bid back within a range, and scored accordingly. A Reserve Partner will be awarded an Enterprise Agreement but will not generally be eligible for the award of packages or other work at Enterprise Partner level, and will not share in the commercial model, unless and until certain trigger events occur and it is elevated to Enterprise Partner status. NGET gives no commitment as to the actual volume of work that will be made available and the projects and works that are delivered by the Enterprise Partners may be less than, and/or different to, those set out above and in the procurement documents. Additional information: As explained in the most recent periodic indicative notice (see IV.2.1), the registration process for ARIBA can take up to two weeks, so interested persons that have not already done so should email SIProcurement@nationalgrid.com in order to register as soon as possible to maximise the response time that is available to them.

Document pack· 1 file

15

total contracts

£70.0m

total value

£70,000,000

average contract size

Pipeline status

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