Notice Information
Notice Title
Purchase of CBtect Portable Circuit Breaker Monitoring
Notice Description
Supply of 10 CBtect portable circuit breaker monitoring units, plus licenses for connection to servers and warranty. Option for up to an additional 10 CBtect units depending on operational requirements included.
Procurement Information
Competition is absent for technical reasons and there are no reasonable alternatives (Procurement Act 2023, Schedule 5, paragraph 6): CBTect is a unique technology designed following an innovation project to enhance National Grid's ability to capture multiple aspects of condition data of in-service circuit breakers. The CBTect units being purchased have been developed as a portable monitoring system that does not require an outage to install and will provide flexibility when assessing the condition of, and subsequent maintenance of, circuit breakers. CBTect can identify a range of fault conditions including: Timing defects, interrupter defects, failing grading capacitors, mechanism damping problems and SF6 contamination. National Grid has not identified a reasonable alternative portable product that can analyse the range of fault conditions required and does not require an outage to be installed.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05f2b3
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/081474-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK5 - Transparency Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Goods
- Procurement Method
- Direct
- Procurement Method Details
- Direct award
- Tender Suitability
- SME
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
35 - Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment
-
- CPV Codes
35125100 - Sensors
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- £1,600,000 £1M-£10M
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 10 Dec 20252 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 10 Dec 20252 months ago
- Contract Period
- 9 Jan 2026 - 31 Mar 2031 Over 5 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Pending
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NATIONAL GRID ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION PLC
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- box.gp.ukbuyernget@nationalgrid.com
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- WC2N 5EH
- Post Town
- Central London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI35 Westminster and City of London
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Westminster
- Electoral Ward
- St James's
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/081474-2025
10th December 2025 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender
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