The dynamic market framework – now reside and open-ended – means extra firms can nonetheless joinbut for now the preliminary most popular firms are in pole place to faucet into one of many UK’s largest upcoming pipelines of substation work.
Laing O’Rourke emerged as the massive winner, securing locations on all three workstreams overlaying EPC supply, M&E set up and main civils.
A good five-strong pack made the minimize for the top-tier EPC substation development lot – BAM Nuttall, Costain, Laing O’Rourke, Siemens Energy and Skanska. These firms will battle it out for turnkey schemes usually price greater than £20m on reside 400kV websites.
The M&E set up part – targeted on smaller upgrades and extensions – went to Kirby Group Engineering, Laing O’Rourke, Morson Projects, OCU Utility Services and Siemens Energy.
Nine firms landed spots on the foremost civils lot for packages above £5m. Alongside tier one gamers BAM Nuttall, Costain, Galliford Try, Laing O’Rourke and Skanska, the line-up consists of Alpha Construction, Amalgamated Construction, Trant Engineering and Tudorborne.
The dynamic market was first flagged in February as a part of National Grid’s push to streamline procurement and velocity up supply of crucial infrastructure.
It might be utilized by group companies together with National Grid Electricity Transmission and National Grid Electricity Distribution, with contractors competing for call-off jobs as schemes come to market.
