Published date: 31 August 2023

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 26 September 2023

Contract summary

Industry

  • Meter reading service - 65500000

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West

Procurement reference

tender_373100/1253273

Published date

31 August 2023

Closing date

26 September 2023

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

The Employer is National Highways the government company charged with operating, maintaining and improving England's motorways and major A roads, including modernising and maintaining the highways. We also manage - and help prevent - incidents on England's motorways through our Traffic Officer Service. The Employer manages around 4,300 miles of carriageway and is made up of motorways and trunk roads.

National Highways (hereafter referred to as the Employer) procures un-metered electrical energy from bulk electricity suppliers, for its road lighting and lit traffic signs on Motorways and Trunk Roads in England.

As these electricity supplies are unmetered and traded Half Hourly (HH), the Service Information is required to conform to an industry procedure BSCP520 (Balancing and Settlement Code Procedure) and a Meter Administrator (MA), must be appointed.

The Service covers all of the DNO (Distribution Network Operator) Areas in England and some sections of Scotland and Wales: www.ofgem.gov.uk/electricity/distribution-networks/gb-electricity-distribution-network.


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if you able to provide the full required services as detailed in the specification attached to this Notice please contract Rebecca Jones via rebecca.jones2@nationalhighways.co.uk by 26 September 2023

Please note this prior information notice is a request for information only at this stage.


About the buyer

Address

The Cube, 199 Wharfside Street
Birmingham
B1 1RN
England

Email

Rebecca.Jones2@nationalhighways.co.uk