Official UK procurement notice
FW Services - Operational Technology Framework - Extended Deadline
Authority: SSE PLC
What is being bought6 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionScottish Hydro Electric Transmission Plc (SHET) trading as SSEN Transmission has identified a requirement to establish an OT specific Framework of suppliers to maintain a dedicated pool of suppliers to support the successful delivery of our T3 programme. Details of the programme can be found at www.ssen-transmission.co.uk/globalassets/documen… ↗
*** Original notice published is Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-020450. This notice is to reflect change to dates, including change of deadline for PQQ responses from 09.06.25 @12:000 to 16.06.25 @12:00 ***
- How the procedure runs: PQQ to be issued -2 step procedure under PA23 utilising Jaggaer / Find a tender. Open Framework to be utilised. Following PQQ evaluation, down selection will be made to move to ITT stage. Awards will be made per lot. Total of 6 available lots
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Open framework · open framework scheme (admission reopens)
- Call-offs
- call-offs may be awarded directly or by further competition
- Framework period
- 8 yrs from 1 Feb 2026
- Scheme runs until
- 31 Jan 2034
Who may buy through it
SSE group companies
Published description of the framework
Refer to PQQ/ITT documentation
Lots and requirements (6)Procurement structure
6 lots · all with a published value · same conditions of participation on every lotEvery one of these 6 lots carries the same published figure, £240,000,000: it is the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each lot's own budget, and no share per lot is published. The cards below say ceiling above rather than repeat it.
Lot #1Substation OT Prof Services (security assurance in substations, firewalls, common platforms)ceiling above
- Design and build of security solutions to be deployed into substation environments, including the infrastructure and services for backup, monitoring, endpoint protection and firewalls.
- Design and build of physical security solutions for substation environments, including automated access control systems (AACS), CCTV, and other access control and monitoring solutions such as key safes and door contact sensors.
- Procure and supply the hardware for the security solutions. In most cases this will be free issued by SSEN-T.
- Provide ongoing 2nd line maintenance and support of the service / solution.
- Consultancy engagements focused on future development or addressing emerging challenges, specific to Lot 1.
- Economic & financial standing
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
Lot #2OT Security Services inc. Training & Awarenessceiling above
- Training and Awareness - Development of training content to educate users of operational technology about the risks from cyber security threats.
- Provide specialised OT Security Consultancy and related services including process development and assurance (IDAM, VM, Change Management), maturity assessment, collation and summary of threat intelligence, testing and configuring security tools (Firewalls, EDR, IDS, SIEM).
- Security architecture - risk assessing a new changed system IT/OT systems to ensure security principles are followed and residual risks are understood.
- Penetration testing - undertaking targeted investigations to highlight vulnerabilities within our existing systems and controls that could be exploited by a threat actor.
- OT Forensics - capability to undertake forensic investigations on low level devices used within the electricity sector. e.g. those running Realtime operating systems such as Vxworks.
- Consultancy engagements focused on future development or addressing emerging challenges, specific to Lot 2.
- Economic & financial standing
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
Lot #3OT Infrastructure and Network Services inc. Substations (hardware, networking)ceiling above
- Design and build of IT/OT infrastructure to be deployed into data centres and data rooms within offices. Including hardening of servers, software installation, network configuration, physical deployment (racking and wiring).
- Design and build supporting applications such as identity services, domain management, key management and backup servers.
- Provide infrastructure support, including patching, processing change requests, fault investigation and repair.
- Design, build or procurement of network infrastructure to include but not limited to Routers, Switches, Firewalls and typical Datacentre technologies
- Consultancy engagements focused on future development or addressing emerging challenges, specific to Lot 3.
- Economic & financial standing
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
Lot #4OT Operations (BAU Support and Development)ceiling above
- Provide specialist application support and development for OT Applications including PowerOn, PI to respond to incidents, facilitate configuration changes and deliver updates.
- Provide technical assistance for wider OT estate, including Active Directory and firewalls - often required as part of fault diagnosis, technical remediation and/or project resourcing
- Provide assistance and expertise with build and support of physical and virtual OT Windows clients. Building, applying and testing new client images via SCCM for use in Production OT environment.
- DR testing - provide technical expertise with backup solutions such as NetBackup & Rubrik, to assist with comprehensive DR restoration tests for our OT servers and applications.
- Consultancy engagements focused on future development or addressing emerging challenges, specific to Lot 4.
- Economic & financial standing
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
Lot #5Data Center Hostingceiling above
- Provide data center hosting in a secure and resilient environment suitable for critical national infrastructure (CNI) (likely to be Tier 3 as a minimum) with proximity to the SSEN Transmission OT network in the north of Scotland and connectivity to public cloud services.
- Provide data center hosting to Security Check Level to meet Cabinet Office requirements.
- Economic & financial standing
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
Lot #6Delivery Servicesceiling above
- Professional and Consultancy services.
- Skillset with Operational Technology (OT) expertise. Roles to include, but not limited to;
- Business analysis
- Design development
- Testing
- Change management
- Architecture
- Project delivery and management
- Technical design
- Service design
- Economic & financial standing
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Economic & financial standing
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
- Technical & professional ability
As per PQQ / ITT Doumentation
- “FW Services - Operational Technology Framework - Extended Deadline” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract: call-offs may be direct or by further competition.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Open framework scheme
- Who may use this agreement
- SSE group companies · open scheme: new suppliers can join during the term
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Jun 2025, 17:52 BST
- Last source update
- 11 Jun 2025, 17:52 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 1 Nov 2025
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-031698- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-054719Find a Tender
- How it runs
PQQ to be issued -2 step procedure under PA23 utilising Jaggaer / Find a tender. Open Framework to be utilised. Following PQQ evaluation, down selection will be made to move to ITT stage.
Awards will be made per lot. Total of 6 available lots
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 16 Jun 2025, 12:00 BST
- Appointment period ends
- 16 Jun 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
SSEN invite interested suppliers to view the Tender Documents on our Jaggaer e-procurement system under "Current Opportunities" here:
sse.app.jaggaer.com/esop/guest/go/opport… ↗
Full details of the service required and how to respond to the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire can be found on that page.
Timeline
11 Jun 2025 → 1 Feb 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice published11 Jun 2025, 17:52 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown16 Jun 2025, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by359 days ago1 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts268 days ago1 Feb 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published11 Jun 2025, 17:52 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender