HVDC Cable Framework

  • NATIONAL GRID UK LIMITED

F14: Notice for changes or additional information

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-061176

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0420f3 (view related notices)

Published 1 October 2025, 10:19am



Section one: Contracting authority/entity

one.1) Name and addresses

NATIONAL GRID UK LIMITED

1-3 Strand

London

WC2N5EH

Contact

David Sugden

Email

david.sugden@nationalgrid.com

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKI32 - Westminster

Companies House

04508773

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.nationalgrid.com/


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

HVDC Cable Framework

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 45000000 - Construction work

two.1.3) Type of contract

Works

two.1.4) Short description

National Grid is an international Electricity and Gas

Network Company and one of the largest investor owned energy companies in the world, based in the

United Kingdom with operations in the north-east of

the United States of America too.

National Grid has established a multi-year

HVDC Cable Framework to service its growing

HVDC requirements. National Grid also has a

developing portfolio of HVDC projects in the US,

these works will be subject to a separate

Procurement exercise.

Please note that the scope of the HVDC Cable

Framework includes but is not limited to the

following areas:

- Design, manufacture, testing and commissioning

of HVDC submarine and underground cable

systems, including but not limited to extruded and

mass-impregnated non-draining cable systems at

different voltage ratings as well as all associated

cable accessories

- HVDC submarine cable lay and burial

- HVDC onshore underground cable system

delivery, installation and associated civil

engineering works as required (to be defined on a

project-specific basis)

- Cable spares requirements including spare cable

storage (to be defined on a project-specific basis)

- Design, engineer, prepare, procure and install

landfall HDD (Horizontal Direct Drilling) ducts asrequired for each landfall (To be defined on a

project-specific basis).

- Front-end engineering design services, in relation

to any or all of the aforementioned scope (to be

defined on a project-specific basis)


Section six. Complementary information

six.6) Original notice reference

Notice number: 2025/S 000-010596


Section seven. Changes

seven.1) Information to be changed or added

seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice

Section number

V.2

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5 additional suppliers were logged but names were not published on to the original contract award notice, for transparency, these suppliers are below. The original 2 should remain, therefore 7 suppliers in total.

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LS CABLE & SYSTEM UK LIMITED

New Malden

United Kingdom

Identifier: Companies house - 06482270

NUTS Cose: UK - United Kingdom

The contractor is an SME: No

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SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD

Osaka

Japan

Identifier: Companies house - 1200-01-077450

NUTS Cose: JP - Japan

The contractor is an SME: No

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TAIHAN CABLE & SOLUTION CO., LTD

Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do

South Korea

Identifier: Companies house - 1198110062

NUTS Cose: KR - South Korea

The contractor is an SME: No

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HELLENIC CABLES S.A.

Athens

Greece

Identifier: Companies house - 117706401000

NUTS Code: EL302 - Dytikos Tomeas Athinon

The contractor is an SME: No

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JAN DE NUL LUXEMBOURG SA

Grand Duchy

Luxembourg

Identifier: B 92.054

NUTS Code: LU000 - Luxembourg

The contractor is an SME: No

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Please be aware that HELLENIC CABLES S.A. & JAN DE NUL LUXEMBOURG SA have formed a consortium relationship, (together, the "Contractor")

seven.2) Other additional information

Some supplier names who were appointed to the HVDC Cable Framework had not been published. Rather than selecting not to publish this information, National Grid should have selected to share information about other awards.