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HVDC Cable Framework
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01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- Not statedValue not stated in source
- Deadline (UK time)
- No deadline statedThe source does not state a submission deadline.
- Published
- 1 Oct 2025
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
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)
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 45000000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
3 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 1 Dec 2023Tender notice
Tender notice published 1 December 2023.
Deadline in this release: Mon 15 Jan 2024.
Release 035471-2023
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 21 Mar 2025Award notice
Award notice published 21 March 2025. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 010596-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 1 Oct 2025Tender notice update
Tender notice update published 1 October 2025. Stated change: 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.
Release 061176-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- The source does not state a submission deadline.
- The source does not state a usable value.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-0420f3
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- tender · Open
- Framework
- Yes, as recorded by the source
- Last verified
- Mon 6 Apr 2026, 21:15 BST
- Read at
- Sat 17 Oct 2026, 02:45 BST
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