Procurement

HVDC Cable Framework

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0420f3

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)