Official UK procurement notice
Digital Twin for Electrical Power Systems - National Grid
Authority: NATIONAL GRID UK LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPlease respond by 18.30 1st May 2026
Request for Information (RFI)
National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is developing a Digital Twin for Electrical Power systems to support transmission network design, analysis, planning, operations, and asset lifecycle management.
A critical enabler of this vision is a Network Master Model Manager: a controlled, authoritative environment used to create, govern, validate, and distribute trusted network model data (including associated metadata) across multiple engineering and operational tools.
Through the RFI, National Grid is seeking information on how your solution supports:
Robust model governance and lifecycle management
Standards based interoperability (e.g. CIM / CGMES)
Strong data quality controls and auditability
Secure deployment and operation at national infrastructure scale
Integration with existing planning, operations, and data platforms
Documentation outlining a request for information (RFI) will be provided to interested suppliers. Please contact Baljinder.besra@nationalgrid.com if you would like to receive the RFI documents and if you wish to submit a response.
This RFI does not constitute a formal competitive tendering process.
Should National Grid have a desire towards supplier selection and contract award, suppliers may be invited to the possible stages of pre-qualification and Request for Proposal.
Further stages are optional for National Grid.
National Grid is at the heart of a rapidly evolving energy system.
Our business units play a vital role in connecting millions of people to the energy they depend on, while continuously seeking ways to make the system cleaner and more sustainable. National Grid Ventures and National Grid Partners drive innovation to help revolutionise and decarbonise the future of energy.
To achieve our vision of being at the heart of a clean, fair and affordable energy future in a focused way we have a strategy that sets the bounds of our business. Guiding our efforts within this are five strategic priorities.
Enable the energy transition for all
Build the networks of the future now
Deliver for our customers
Operate safely and efficiently
Build tomorrow's workforce today
For more information, please visit: www.nationalgrid.com ↗
CPV: Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NATIONAL GRID UK LIMITED buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up
NATIONAL GRID UK LIMITED has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Across this market, small firms won 30% of awards with a known supplier size.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Across this market, 29% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 62 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Across this market, at least 66% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid16%
2–331%
4–632%
7+22%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate55%
Within ±2%25%
Above estimate20%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 48Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 48. The comparison uses that group.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 377 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–331%
4–632%
7+22%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 27 Apr 2026, 16:26 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Apr 2026, 20:49 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-038869- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068c03Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Apr 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published183 days ago27 Apr 2026, 16:26 BST
- Latest notice published182 days ago28 Apr 2026, 20:49 BST
- Market engagement179 days ago1 May 2026, 23:59 BST
National Grid will release the RFI documentation upon request by suppliers, contact Baljinder.besra@nationalgrid.com if you are interested.
- Contract starts57 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Apr 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Apr 2026, 16:26 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Apr 2026, 20:49 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
The changes were made because an NDA is not required and suppliers may compete in potential PQQ and RFP stages irrespective of response to this notice or not. The right to run further stages is optional for National Grid.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender