HVDC Cable Framework

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        "description": "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)",
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                "description": "The scope of this Procurement includes c.15 HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) projects; certain projects, and other identified projects that it is currently anticipated will be of similar size and value and will be identified as infrastructure to enable the connection of 50GW of Offshore Wind by 2030 and Net Zero by 2050. The scope also comprises other as-yet unidentified additional major HVDC projects, the precise location and nature of which is not yet known but which will share the same key features as the other projects. The HVDC Cable Framework is intended to be used for the delivery of National Grids HVDC Cable portfolio of projects.",
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                            "text": "5 additional suppliers were logged but names were not published on to the original contract award notice, for transparency, these suppliers are below. The original 2 should remain, therefore 7 suppliers in total. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LS CABLE & SYSTEM UK LIMITED New Malden United Kingdom Identifier: Companies house - 06482270 NUTS Cose: UK - United Kingdom The contractor is an SME: No -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD Osaka Japan Identifier: Companies house - 1200-01-077450 NUTS Cose: JP - Japan The contractor is an SME: No -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TAIHAN CABLE & SOLUTION CO., LTD Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do South Korea Identifier: Companies house - 1198110062 NUTS Cose: KR - South Korea The contractor is an SME: No -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HELLENIC CABLES S.A. Athens Greece Identifier: Companies house - 117706401000 NUTS Code: EL302 - Dytikos Tomeas Athinon The contractor is an SME: No -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JAN DE NUL LUXEMBOURG SA Grand Duchy Luxembourg Identifier: B 92.054 NUTS Code: LU000 - Luxembourg The contractor is an SME: No -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please be aware that HELLENIC CABLES S.A. & JAN DE NUL LUXEMBOURG SA have formed a consortium relationship, (together, the \"Contractor\")"
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