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To achieve The Great Grid Upgrade - the largest overhaul of the electricity grid in generations, in support of the UK's switch to clean energy - National Grid Electricity Transmission "NGET" has set ambitious environmental targets to ensure these works are done so sustainably. One such target is to reach net zero by the year 2050, with interim goals such as reaching carbon neutral construction activities by the year 2026. NGET is taking a multi-disciplinary and innovative approach to lowering emissions across our portfolio of assets and activities. One such technique is using carbon compensatory measures to aid the offsetting of residual emissions. NGET is seeking to partner with organisations/projects that specialise in carbon reduction and/or removal schemes that deliver co-benefits for places and lives around them. These organisations must demonstrate integrity and accountability in managing schemes that deliver reliable carbon offsetting services. Through these collaborative partnerships, NGET will compensate for the residual emissions that cannot be mitigated in the short term. These works will involve working across multiple organisations, and through differing scheme types. Within the current regulatory period (T2) Environmental Action Plan, NGET also has a commitment to deliver 10% Net Gain in Environmental Value (Including Biodiversity) on all construction schemes - The Biodiversity element of this commitment (BNG) became mandatory in Feb 2024 for all construction schemes under the Town & Country Planning Act, and to meet these requirements NGET will require the procurement of formal offsite BNG units from registered providers. In addition, to support delivery of non-mandatory net gain commitments, we want to establish a framework of organisations that can deliver nature-based solutions, biodiversity enhancements (including marine environments), and wider climate, biodiversity, and community outcomes.

On 6 January 2023, National Grid Electricity Transmission plc (NGET) published a PIN (Reference: 2023/2 000-000455) (Original PIN), advertising a market engagement exercise for a project referred to as the New Infrastructure Onshore Delivery Programme (NIODP). This PIN is an update to interested organisations in respect of the: 1) project name; 2) anticipated contract notice publication date; and 3) Ariba registration process (which as an essential step for interested organisations to complete before they can respond to the PQQ and may take up to 2 weeks) Within the Original PIN, NGET indicated its intention to publish a contract notice on or around the 13th February 2023, which was subsequently (in a revised PIN published on 16 January 2023 (Reference: 2023/S 000-001244 (Revised PIN) updated to be on or around the 28th March 2023. In the intervening time since this engagement, NGET has been busy refining its strategy, including taking into account feedback from the market engagement process, as it gets closer to going to market for this procurement. NGET is now in the position of preparing and finalising procurement documents for the process, with the expected launch of the qualification process now being late May/early June 2023. (Please note in respect of the date at II.3 that this is a mandatory field for completing this notice and, given the lack of a specific launch date, should be disregarded when viewing this notice in favour of the date range stated here.) Given the scale of investment that is required to deliver the ASTI projects successfully, NGET has recently set up a new business unit named "Strategic Infrastructure" to focus on the delivery of these projects as well as the early stage development of other future strategically important projects. With this in mind, the name of the programme that this procurement opportunity relates to will be subject to change from its current title of NIODP with an updated title to be confirmed in due course. NGET will be running the qualification process (and subsequent tender process) through the Ariba platform, with which interested organisations may be familiar. If interested organisations have not used this platform previously, they will need to sign-up ahead of the launch of the PQQ to ensure they are able to receive all of the documents straight away following the launch. As this Ariba registration process may potentially take up to two weeks, interested organisations should complete the following steps by no later than 12 May 2023 to ensure they are able to access the Ariba event when it is launched: 1. If interested organisations have an existing Ariba account that they use with NGET: please indicate, by e-mailing the email address provided at section I.1, which account they would like to be used, providing the organisation ID and specific user ID. The organisation ID should be able to be found within their account profile and may start with WS (for example WS12345789). 2. If interested organisations have an existing Ariba account, but do not believe this has been used with NGET previously: please provide the ANID associated with the account, by e-mailing the email address provided at section I.1, so we can ensure the account is within NGET's system. 3. If you do not have an existing Ariba account: please provide the following details to the email address provided at section I.1, to enable us to create an account: a. Organisation name; b. corporate phone number and email; c. corporate address; d. contact name; and e. contact phone number and email. NGET thanks interested organisations for their interest in the opportunity to date while we have moved through the pre-market strategy phase. NGET looks forward to launching the process in the coming weeks.

This notice is published to advertise a pre-procurement Early Market Engagement (EME) exercise being conducted by National Grid Electricity Transmission plc (NGET). NGET is seeking feedback from the market through pre-procurement Early Market Engagement (EME) to support and refine its approach to a forthcoming procurement process in respect of the Tilbury-Kingsnorth, Tilbury-Grain uprating project (known as "TKRE"). Economic operators wishing to express an interest for the pre-procurement EME must request a pro-forma Market Engagement Document ("MED"). To obtain the MED please e-mail: box.GP.UKBuyer@nationalgrid.com to request the document. In your e-mail, please state "TKRE - Request for MED" as the subject line. The MED (with all sections completed) should be submitted via email, to box.GP.UKBuyer@nationalgrid.com no later than 13:00 (GMT) on Friday 21 April 2023. The completed MEDs will be used by NGET for pre-procurement EME planning purposes. The market engagement exercise is open to all Economic Operators who are interested (or may be interested) in bidding for the EPC contractor role to deliver the works, directly contracted by NGET rather than as part of a sub-tier contracting arrangement. Please note that invitations to (and information on) future related market engagement events or activities (such as group sessions and further questionnaires) may be provided only to those Economic Operators who have registered by responding to the MED. No further notice of those subsequent events or activities will be given to the wider market. You are therefore encouraged to respond to the MED to register your details and interest.

This notice is published to advertise a pre-procurement market engagement exercise being conducted by National Grid Electricity Transmission plc (NGET). NGET is seeking feedback from the market to support and refine its approach to a forthcoming procurement process in respect of the NIODP. Further details are contained in this notice and in a market engagement document (MED). The MED has been prepared by NGET to describe the NIODP and NGET's current thinking on the delivery model, and contains questions to which NGET requests responses from the market. To access the MED please e-mail box.NImarketengagement@nationalgrid.com and a secure website link will be sent to you. In your e-mail, please state "Request for Access to MED" as the subject line and provide the following confirmation in the body of the e-mail: 1. Full name of nominated person to access the secured website 2. E-mail address of the nominated person This market engagement exercise is open to all persons who are interested (or may be interested) in bidding for a partner or member role in the enterprise delivery model (as described below), directly contracted by NGET, rather as part of a sub-tier contracting arrangement. The last date for submission of responses to the MED is 20 January 2023 at 16:00 (GMT). Depending on the information provided, NGET may seek to follow up with individual respondents or groups of respondents. Please note that invitations to (and information on) future related market engagement events or activities (such as group sessions and further questionnaires) may be provided only to those persons who have registered by responding to the MED. No further notice of those subsequent events or activities will be given to the wider market. You are therefore encouraged to respond to the MED to register your details and interest, even where you do not wish to respond to any specific question.

In order to achieve The Great Grid Upgrade - the largest overhaul of the electricity grid in generations in support of the UK's switch to clean energy - National Grid Electricity Transmission "NGET" has recently set up a new business unit "Strategic Infrastructure" to focus on the delivery of these 17 projects as well as the early stage development of other future strategically important projects. An important element is ensuring the local communities that host our infrastructure are properly and adequately informed and consulted via robust consultation exercises and on-going engagement through both the design and construction phases. This will require the services of community relations agencies that don't simply understand the consenting process but are able to clearly articulate project opportunities with a strong command of the English - and where appropriate Welsh - language. Doing so will maintain and enhance National Grid's reputation. This will involve innovative and flexible approaches working across multiple agencies given the complexity and stretching timescale. Depending on skills, experience, and requirements the work will be varied, such as producing best in class content, copy writing, and public narratives to organising engaging and first-rate consultations. The pipeline of projects will continue to grow as the UK's seeks to reach net zero by 2050. This will only be realised through a revitalised transmission network which enables us to carry more clean energy to communities in every part of England and Wales.

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NG ET) owns and maintains the high voltage electricity network in England and Wales comprising 4,500 miles of overhead line, 900 miles of underground cable and more than 300 substations. Our cables and substations are at the centre of the energy system. Every time a phone is plugged in, or switch is turned on, we've played a part, connecting homes and business to the electricity they need. It's a crucial role and pivotal in turning the UK's net zero ambitions into reality. NG ET aims to become an intelligently connected utility, with the ability to respond quickly to market opportunities and changes impacting the business. The enterprise integration platform is the nerve centre that connects internal business systems together and enables secure business flows and process automation between NG ET and other National Grid entities as well as between NG ET and various eco-system partners. The current suite of integration products and their operating model limit the Business' aspirations to be modern and agile. Building new integrations relies on a central pool of specialised resources and constrains the speed at which integration projects can be delivered.

National Grid Electricity Transmission is seeking to replace its existing helicopter mounted inspection and mission control systems. This system is currently used to provide condition data on a range of overhead line assets. The project includes the design, supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance of the inspection and mission control systems.

This notice is published to advertise an upcoming procurement event led by National Grid Electricity Transmission plc (NGET) for a new High Voltage (HV) Cable Tunnel EPC Framework. A Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) will be issued on or around 11 February 2025 via the Achilles platform (a qualification system established and operated under the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016). All Economic Operators interested in the opportunity must be registered on one of the following UVDB Achilles codes by 10 February 2025: 3.7.5 Underground Mains Cable - 200kV & above 4.1.7 Tunnelling and Shafts 4.1.7.6 Turnkey To register on Achilles UVDB Silver+ Subscription, please go to the following link (note that a subscription fee applies): https://my.achilles.com/join-community?communitycode=UVD&lang=en-GB&buyerid=00014456&minimumpackage=SLP NGET intends to issue a PQQ via Achilles. Economic Operators must be registered with Achilles to participate in this process. For Economic Operators who may wish to participate in the procurement event as a joint venture (JV), all members of the proposed JV must be registered individually with Achilles. Failure to register with Achilles as set out above will result in exclusion from further participation in the procurement process. Furthermore, in order to be eligible to be appointed, Economic Operators (including where relevant, individual members of any proposed JV) must attain Achilles Verify through a category B2 audit process by Framework award, which is currently forecast for March 2026.

We are conducting a market engagement exercise to explore the availability, capability, and maturity of tools and services that support cyber-attack path analysis. This initiative aims to assess solution readiness, innovation potential, and supplier experience in delivering outcomes aligned with proactive cyber defence objectives. We are particularly interested in understanding products or services that automate the generation and analysis of cyber-attack paths on a National Grid scale based on data from each of the following categories: . Computing assets . Network connections . Cyber vulnerabilities . Identity and access management This RFI is intended to inform our sourcing strategy and identify potential partners with relevant expertise and solutions. Please note: Detailed technical requirements and supporting documentation will be shared only upon receipt of a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). The NDA must be executed by both parties and is issued on a non-negotiable basis.