Property related Professional & Design Services

• Provide detailed and robust cost estimates at all project stages, including feasibility, design, construction, commissioning, and post-completion phases
• Develop and maintain clear cost breakdowns split between SGN's Scotland and Southern Networks, enabling regional reporting, forecasting, and financial control
• Implement agreed cost control procedures to monitor expenditure throughout the project lifecycle, including change control, forecasting, and variance analysis
• Lead structured value engineering exercises where appropriate, aligned to agreed cost control targets, to optimise cost without compromising safety, quality, or operational performance
• Produce regular cost reports aligned to the agreed reporting cycle, including early warning indicators, risk allowances, and outturn cost forecasts Project Management Services
• Develop and manage detailed project programmes, including work breakdown structures, critical path analysis, and clearly defined milestones and deliverables
• Projects shall be delivered in accordance with an established and recognised methodology, e.g. PRINCE2
• Identify and actively manage key milestones, interdependencies, and deliverables, ensuring alignment across projects and avoidance of conflicts or delays
• Coordinate and manage resources across multiple concurrent projects (if required) to ensure efficient utilisation and delivery certainty
• Apply a structured risk management framework aligned to SGN's corporate risk approach, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and escalation
• Develop and implement a stakeholder engagement and communication plan, ensuring timely, accurate, and consistent communication with internal teams, regulators, contractors, and other stakeholders
• Ensure compliance with all applicable health, safety, and environmental legislation, standards, and internal policies Programme Management Services
• Establish and maintain an integrated programme plan covering all projects within scope, aligned to strategic business objectives
• Manage cross-project dependencies, interfaces, and sequencing to minimise risk and maximise efficiency across the programme
• Provide programme-level reporting, including KPIs covering cost, schedule, risk, and performance
• Operate a structured programme change management process, ensuring impacts on cost, schedule, and risk are clearly understood and approved Governance, Reporting, and Controls
• The successful contractor shall operate in line with an established risk management framework, integrating project and programme risks into SGN's wider corporate risk reporting where required
• Reporting will be provided through agreed governance forums, including project boards, programme boards, and senior stakeholder groups
• Reports will include cost, programme, risk, issues, and key decisions required
• Formal reporting and informal communications shall be aligned to the agreed stakeholder communication plan, ensuring clarity and consistency across both regions
• The successful contractors are expected to be able to provide an appropriate level of BIM integration (if required) to enable cost and programme tracking, including alignment with 4D (programme) and 5D (cost) principles where project maturity allows
• Ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements and support the integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) objectives into project delivery
• Support internal and external audits, gateway reviews, and lessons-learned exercises Additional information: All documentation pertaining to this opportunity is attached in the Source-to-Contract system. Applicants will be required to complete the following Microsoft Form - https://forms.office.com/e/hhjUxWPi6D The Tender documents are available with unrestricted access. https://sgn.tlb.app.jaggaer.com/esop/toolkit/opportunity/... Please note however to submit the response to the PQQ and also access the messaging facility the Applicant must have a registered account with Jaggaer which SGN can arrange by completing the required Microsoft Form linked above

• Stage 0-1: Strategic Definition / Preparation & Brief (where required)
• Stage 2: Concept Design
• Stage 3: Developed Design
• Stage 4: Technical Design
• Stage 5: Construction Support (design assurance only, where required)
• Stage 6: Completion and Handover (commissioning, O&M, H&SF etc) The successful contractors will act as design authority, responsible for producing and coordinating compliant, buildable design solutions. Design disciplines may include, as a minimum:
• Architecture
• Fire Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• MEPH
• Sustainability and energy modelling
• Acoustics
• Inclusive access and accessibility design
• Temporary works design (design input and review)
• Principal Designer (CDM) support Design responsibilities include:
• Coordination of multidisciplinary design inputs
• Management of design risk and compliance
• Compliance with Building Regulations, CDM Regulations, fire safety legislation, British Standards, Eurocodes, and SGN technical standards
• Stakeholder engagement, design reviews, and approvals
• Integration of sustainability, whole-life value, and operational requirements Digital Design and BIM
• BIM Level 2 as a minimum, progressing where appropriate
• Federated models and coordinated clash detection
• Compliance with SGN information management and digital standards Pre-Construction Services (Delivery Planning and Risk Reduction) Pre-construction services focus on preparing projects for construction and shall include:
• Review and validation of design information from a buildability and delivery perspective
• Development of construction methodologies and sequencing
• Site logistics, access, and operational interface planning
• Temporary works and enabling works planning
• Coordination and review of surveys and investigations (e.g. ground, utilities, asbestos, ecology)
• Early procurement advice for long-lead items Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) and Value Engineering
• Participation in ECI activities to influence design development
• Delivery of structured value engineering and value management workshops
• Identification of opportunities to improve cost, programme, safety, and buildability
• Preparation of option appraisals with clear cost, risk, and programme implications Cost, Programme and Commercial Development
• Development and validation of pre-construction cost estimates
• Input into cost benchmarking and market testing
• Development of construction programmes, key milestones, and critical paths
• Identification of assumptions, constraints, and dependencies
• Support for target pricing, fixed pricing, or pain/gain mechanisms where applicable Risk and Opportunity Management
• Preparation and maintenance of design and delivery risk registers
• Identification and quantification of cost, programme, technical, and safety risks
• Development of mitigation and contingency strategies
• Alignment with SGN governance and assurance processes Additional information: All documentation pertaining to this opportunity is attached in the Source-to-Contract system. Applicants will be required to complete the following Microsoft Form - https://forms.office.com/e/hhjUxWPi6D The Tender documents are available with unrestricted access. https://sgn.tlb.app.jaggaer.com/esop/toolkit/opportunity/... Please note however to submit the response to the PQQ and also access the messaging facility the Applicant must have a registered account with Jaggaer which SGN can arrange by completing the required Microsoft Form linked above

• Topographical surveys
• Boundary and land ownership surveys
• Rights of access and wayleave support (survey input only)
• Laser scanning and point cloud surveys
• Civils Ground, Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Services
• Ground investigations
• Geotechnical surveys and reporting
• Geo-environmental assessments
• Contaminated land assessments and remediation advice
• Earthworks validation and materials testing Environmental, Ecology and Sustainability Surveys
• Ecological surveys (e.g. Phase 1 habitat, protected species)
• Arboriculture surveys and assessments
• Environmental impact inputs (survey-level support only)
• Flood risk and drainage assessments (specialist inputs)
• Sustainability and climate resilience assessments Building and Asset Specialist Assessments
• Occupied building risk assessments
• Dilapidations surveys (survey and advisory input only)
• Asbestos surveys (management and refurbishment/demolition)
• Legionella risk assessments
• Fire compartmentation and intrusive surveys
• Building pathology and defect investigations
• Measured building surveys
• Structural surveys
• Construction works assessment Acoustic, Vibration and Specialist Technical Design
• Acoustic surveys and noise impact assessments
• Vibration monitoring and mitigation advice
• Specialist façade and building performance assessments
• Wind microclimate assessments Landscape and External Works Design (Specialist Input)
• Landscape surveys and assessments
• Landscape design support (concept to technical input)
• Public realm and external works specialist advice
• Biodiversity net gain specialist inputs (where applicable) Temporary Works, Lifting and Logistics Specialists
• Lifting plans and appointed person services
• Crane and heavy lifting consultancy
• Temporary works design (specialist elements only)
• Abnormal load and logistics planning support Relocation, Decant and Specialist Operational Services
• Office and operational facility removals
• Decant and relocation planning
• Secure storage and records management support
• Specialist decommissioning and recommissioning support Additional Specialist Services
• Accessibility audits and inclusive design assessments
• Security and hostile vehicle mitigation assessments
• Wayfinding and signage specialist design
• Specialist surveys or assessments required to support statutory compliance or project delivery Additional information: All documentation pertaining to this opportunity is attached in the Source-to-Contract system. Applicants will be required to complete the following Microsoft Form - https://forms.office.com/e/hhjUxWPi6D The Tender documents are available with unrestricted access. https://sgn.tlb.app.jaggaer.com/esop/toolkit/opportunity/... Please note however to submit the response to the PQQ and also access the messaging facility the Applicant must have a registered account with Jaggaer which SGN can arrange by completing the required Microsoft Form linked above

• Lot 1Cost Consultancy, Project & Programme Management   Lot 2: Asset/Estate Management   Lot 3: Core Design & Pre-Construction Services   Lot 4: Specialist Services No hard copy documents will be issued by SGN

• Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016

Please note however to submit the response to the PQQ and also access the messaging facility the Applicant must have a registered account with Jaggaer which SGN can arrange by completing the required Microsoft Form.