Great Grid Partnership

Concepts

• construction work
• great grid partnership
• the great grid partnership
• partnership
• grid
• architecture and construction
• engineering and inspection
• complete or part construction
• civil engineering
• electrical equipment

Location

LONDON

Description

NGET has appointed partners (Enterprise Partners) with the capacity and capability to deliver its strategic infrastructure priorities through a collaborative delivery model (the Great Grid Partnership). The procurement comprises two lots: - Lot 1 is a design, consenting and environmental services lot under which NGET has appointed two Enterprise Partners plus one Reserve Partner (the appointment of the Reserve Partner remains subject to contract as at the date of publication of this notice). - Lot 2 is a construction works and services lot under which NGET has appointed five Enterprise Partners plus one Reserve Partner (the appointment of the Reserve Partner remains subject to contract as at the date of publication of this notice). The contractual arrangements comprise a main Enterprise Agreement regulating the rights and obligations of NGET and the Enterprise Partners, with call-off contracts for individual packages using the NEC4 family of contracts.

Lot Division

Award Detail

Renewal Options

As explained in the Contract Notice, the duration of the Enterprise Agreement is an initial 8 years, but extendable up to 12 years at NGET's option.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 45000000 - Construction work
• 71000000 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
• 45200000 - Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
• 51110000 - Installation services of electrical equipment
• 65300000 - Electricity distribution and related services

Indicators

• Options are available.
• Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

As anticipated by the Contract Notice, NGET has appointed a Reserve Partner in each Lot, alongside the Enterprise Partners. The Reserve Partners are Jacobs UK Limited (Lot 1) and Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions Limited (Lot 2). The final appointment of the Reserve Partners in each Lot remains subject to contract as at the date of publication of this notice. All financial values stated in this notice replicate those in the Contract Notice which were calculated using then-current prices plus assumed inflation based on RPI forecast rates to 2032. All of these values are estimates only and the final outturn values will depend on the precise works and services required to be delivered, the means of delivery, the way in which programme and project risks materialise, the actual rates of inflation up to completion of the programme, and other factors. Please refer to the Contract Notice for details of the scale of this procurement, the identified projects and the wider scope of the Great Grid Partnership. The Great Grid Partnership constitutes a single programme to achieve National Grid's Great Grid Upgrade (https://www.nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade). It is currently anticipated that this programme will be delivered by the Enterprise Partners through the Enterprise Agreement and the call-off contracts awarded under it, and the full scope of that is included in the scope advertised by the Contract Notice. However, and without limiting that, the works and services awarded to Enterprise Partner(s) may extend beyond that to involve additional works and services, through the award of further contracts in reliance on the procedure in Regulation 50(1)(f) of the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 and/or any successor provision in the new Procurement Act 2023, when enacted, concerning direct awards for additional or repeat or similar works or services (including, without limitation, paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023, for the purposes of which this contract award notice together with the Contract Notice is to be regarded as a "tender notice or any tender document"). Any contracts for new works or services consisting in the repetition of similar works or services will conform to the Great Grid Upgrade programme and / or a particular project for which packages are called-off under the Great Grid Partnership. The Enterprise Agreement may be awarded by, or novated to, a member of the National Grid group other than NGET.