Maintenance of High Voltage Equipment incorporating Low Voltage Switchgear Maintenance

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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (The Customer) has procured a contract for ongoing planned preventative maintenance (e.g.

testing, servicing and maintenance) as well as reactive maintenance (E.g.

responding to faults and failures, subsequent investigation, repair and testing) of its High Voltage Equipment and Low Voltage Switchgear.

The objective is to ensure the Customer's equipment remains safe, reliable, and operates with optimum efficiency.

The Services include, but are not limited to, testing, servicing and maintenance of the Customer's High Voltage Equipment incorporating Low Voltage Switchgear Maintenance at Nottingham City Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, Ropewalk House and the National Rehabilitation Centre.

The ring main units are to be serviced and maintained every 4 years with service visits conducted on an annual basis for transformers in line with OEM recommendations and HTM 06-03.

The Services will comprise planned maintenance, with provisions for fault and response restoration (Reactive Maintenance) as additional costs.

Estimate costs associated with Reactive Maintenance have been included in the values in this notice, however, this may increase or decrease depending on the number of faults with the HV equipment, for example.

The contract also includes provision for any work to the Customer's private HV network as well as any work required to upgrade the Distribution Network Operators network (E.g.

where additional capacity is required ).

The Term is 12 months with the option to extend for a further 36 months.

This extension shall take the form of three 12-month incremental periods.

The Contract has been procured via Lot 2 (Highway Electrical Connections on DNO/IDNO Networks ('Contestable' Works) and privately-owned cables, and Minor Installation Works) of the ESPO 256_24 (Highway Electrical Connections provided by Independent Connection Providers (2024)) Framework: https://www.espo.org/highway-electrical-connections-provided-by-independent-connection-providers-256-24.html