The procurement contact named on the official notice.

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)