2025 - National Grid - Request to Participate in tender establishing a Global Capability Centre for Engineering Services

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        "description": "Merger/Affiliates Participation Rule. \nWhere two or more suppliers in this competition become connected persons (including by acquisition, merger or common control) at any time: \n(i) pre-completion they must participate independently and maintain effective information barriers; \n(ii) post-completion the group must nominate one supplier to remain in the competition within five (5) working days of completion and withdraw the other(s). \nNational Grid may set evidence requirements, request undertakings and, where necessary, exclude one or more suppliers for breach of procedure or improper behaviour, applying equal treatment and proportionality.",
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    "description": "This notice invites participants to submit a request to participate in a competitive flexible procedure for the award of a contract under Section 19 of the Procurement Act 2023.\nThis is not an invitation to submit tenders.\nNational Grid (NG) is an energy company operating in the UK and US. We deliver electricity and gas safely, reliably and efficiently to the customers and communities we serve - all while working towards a clean energy future.\nThe company is currently undergoing a strategic transformation of its Enterprise Business Services (EBS) organisation and as part of this initiative is successfully operating Engineering Support Services (ESS) activity in India via an incumbent supplier arrangement.\nESS is a proven, flexible, and scalable model providing highly skilled engineering support services with diverse technical, project, and analytics skills via an outsource model that transforms engineering processes.\nAt National Grid, these engineering services activities include, but are not limited to, System Modelling and Early Development, Work Management Support, Asset Management Support, Project Controls and Data Management Support.\nWe now wish to create our own Global Capability Centre (GCC) to deliver engineering services at scale and at pace, and we are looking for a single supplier* to\nI.\tEstablish, grow and deliver engineering services capability at pace\nII.\tCo-create and collaborate with us to design the road map to get to the desired end state of an NG-led GCC\nIII.\tPlay an active role as we develop a detailed project plan and \nStatement of Work that allows us to establish an NG-led Global Capability Centre.\nIV.\tOperationalise the Global Capability Centre\nThis notice is for a wide range of services (and, where applicable, supporting goods, works or services) to support National Grid achieve its target end-state of a Global Capability Centre for engineering services in India.\nOur preference is to establish its GCC using a design build, operate and transfer model, however we are open to other pathways\nPhase 1 - Design\nThe successful party collaborates with NG to define the requirements of our GCC including location, physical space, office layout, IT infrastructure and network connectivity, service standards and operational requirements and compliance with local laws and regulations. These requirements must satisfy our needs for today and future needs.\nThis phase ensures the GCC is tailored to NG\u0027s strategic and operational needs before the Build phase and has the necessary plans and documentation, budget and internal approvals.\nPhase 2 - Build\nThe successful party establishes the GCC infrastructure, recruits talent and focuses on delivering the planned design on time and within scope and budget.  We expect National Grid will be responsible to set up legal entities and gain regulatory approvals.\nPhase 3 - Operate\nThe successful party will deliver and manage day-to-day operations including engineering services and the necessary enabling functions such as HR, payroll, IT support, compliance, and employee engagement.\nThis phase resembles traditional outsourcing, with service levels and governance models aligned to NG\u0027s expectations.\nPhase 4 - Transfer\nThe successful party is jointly responsible with NG to complete appropriate transfers including operational knowledge, systems and staff to NG within the agreed timescale in such a way that service delivery and service standards are not affected.\nPhase 5 - After completion of the Transfer phase, both parties may agree additional works for example, enduring functional support such a Finance or IT etc.\nThe deadline for completed requests to participate to be submitted via https://forms.office.com/r/37mdZZdR66 is 17:00 London 29-Sep-25.\nPlease Note\nNational Grid\u0027s offshore operations are currently based in India via an incumbent supplier arrangement and India is a preferred location for our Global Capability Centre. However, we intend to explore location strategy as part of our qualification and sourcing activities.\nNational Grid wishes to provide additional insight into the estimated total value figure included in this notice because this public notice permits only a single figure.\nNational Grid used best endeavours when estimating the total cost over the planned duration of this contract and believes the total cost to be in the range of \u00a3100,000,000 to \u00a3250,000,000 excluding VAT (\u00a3100 million to \u00a3250 million)\nMerger/Affiliates Participation Rule. \nWhere two or more suppliers in this competition become connected persons (including by acquisition, merger or common control) at any time: \n(i) pre-completion they must participate independently and maintain effective information barriers; \n(ii) post-completion the group must nominate one supplier to remain in the competition within five (5) working days of completion and withdraw the other(s). \nNational Grid may set evidence requirements, request undertakings and, where necessary, exclude one or more suppliers for breach of procedure or improper behaviour, applying equal treatment and proportionality.\n* A \u0027single supplier\u0027 could include a joint venture or prime contractor although it should be noted a prime contractor will be responsible for management and delivery of all sub-contract elements.",
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      "features": "This notice invites participants to submit a request to participate in a competitive flexible procedure for the award of a contract under Section 19 of the Procurement Act 2023.\nThis is not an invitation to submit tenders.\nThis procurement will follow a Competitive Flexible Procedure under the Procurement Act 2023 in multiple phases, namely\n1.  Qualification.\n2.  Supplier Selection.\n3.  Award.\n1.\tIn the Qualification phase, National Grid will assess participants against conditions of participation.  National Grid will use these conditions of participation assess a participant on their legal and financial capacity and technical ability to perform the contract.\nNational Grid reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to exclude participants not satisfying a condition of participation from participating in, or progressing as part of, the competitive tendering procedure.\nNational Grid may request evidence that is independently verifiable as a condition of participation\nParticipants wishing to request to participate should complete visit ( https://forms.office.com/r/37mdZZdR66 ) and complete the necessary registration details.  Details must be submitted no later than 17:00 London 29-Sep-25 to allow sufficient time to process requests.\n2.\t Participants assessed as satisfying the conditions of participation will be invited to participate in the first activity in the Supplier Selection phase,\nThe Supplier Selection phase will contain a number of activities designed to identify participants best able to meet National Grid\u0027s requirements.  Participants will be assessed and evaluated at each the conclusion of each activity against requirements detailed in the relevant instructions for that activity and National Grid reserves the right to evaluate and exclude participants not meeting the requirements.\nThe Supplier Selection phase will include but is not limited to: \nService Stories, Initial Proposal, Collaboration and Alignment Sessions, Final Proposal including negotiation, Site Visits and Best and Final Offers including negotiation.\nNational Grid reserves the right to refine award criteria prior to issuing the final invitation to submit a tender, in accordance with Section 24 of the Procurement Act 2023.\n3.  The Award phase will include necessary internal approval activities, publish a contract award notice and completing the required 8-working day standstill period."
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    "riskDetails": "a.\t\u0027Known risks include: (i) host state legal or regulatory change affecting service location or personnel mix; (ii) cross-border data transfer, localisation constraints and security assurance requirements; (iii) export control sanctions outcomes; (iv) pace of transition and stabilisation; (v) sector approvals (including national security) affecting timing. National Grid may issue proportionate modifications to address such risks.\u0027\nb.\t\u0027The contract may be transferred, in whole or part, to a National Grid group company (including an overseas subsidiary) to reflect corporate structuring of the dBOT operating model.\u0027\nWe advise that a conflicts assessment has been prepared and will be kept under review and revised as necessary",
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