Unmanned aerial vehicles

Tender description

Northern Powergrid is an electricity distribution business, delivering electricity from the National Transmission System to 3,800,000 domestic and business customers covering an area of 25 000 km2. Northern Powergrid's network extends from North Northumberland, South to the Humber and Northern Lincolnshire and from the East Coast to the Pennines. The network consists of more than 31 000 substations and around 91 000 km of overhead line and underground cables. Northern Powergrid is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company and comprises, the electricity distribution business, operating through its subsidiary companies Northern Powergrid North East Ltd and Northern Powergrid Yorkshire Plc. The purpose of this PIN is to notify the wider market that we are intending to issue an Invitation to tender for the provision and maintenance of Unmanned Aerial Systems: Drones. The purpose of this tender is to seek the specific technical requirements of Northern Powergrid in relation to Unmanned Aerial Systems: Drones. To express an interest in this event please contact Farren Nevill at the following email address farren.nevill@northernpowergrid.com by no later than Wednesday 20.2.2019. This exercise is for information only and is not a call for competition. Any companies who wish to be included in any potential call for competition should be fully registered via Achilles UVDB UK under the following product codes: 1)10.23 Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS); 2)1.20 Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) support services. Please ensure you allow sufficient time for full registration as this can take several weeks.