UK POWER NETWORKS (OPERATIONS) LIMITED

How to win their contracts

Measured from UK POWER NETWORKS (OPERATIONS) LIMITED's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 29 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 6 of their tenders.
• They publish about 0.7 tenders a month, measured over 66 months of history.
• Half of the tenders where they publish a value are estimated at £1.5m or less.
• Most of their buying falls in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, repair and maintenance services, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support.
• Their most frequent suppliers are ORACLE CORPORATION UK LTD (2), J.B. RAWCLIFFE & SONS LIMITED (2), National Grid electricity Transmission Plc (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.