National Highways - LTC - Green Hydrogen Supply & Associated Services

National Highways is dedicated to achieving the lowest possible carbon solution to deliver the comprising works of the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP), Lower Thames Crossing (LTC).

We are seeking to engage with the market to ascertain the solutions available to achieve this ambitious engineering accomplishment that integrates the projects carbon reduction agenda.

NH wish to invite interested parties to partake in a second phase of market engagement exercise in relation to "Green Hydrogen Supply & Associated Services" pertaining to the LTC NSIP. The aim of this exercise is for us to better understand what is possible in regards of the Green Hydrogen value chain.

The aim of the market engagement event will be to understand the capability and the capacity of the market in potentially delivering the following services:

1. Full Turnkey managed service - Generation, supply, compression, on-site, storage & refuelling of Green Hydrogen

2. Supply of Green Hydrogen

3. Compression & Liquification of Green Hydrogen

4. Transport/ logistics of Green Hydrogen

5. Distribution & refueling of Green Hydrogen on site

The format of the market engagement will be a series of online 1-2-1 sessions led by NH from 6th February 2023 - 28th February 2023,.To register your interest in attending this session, which will be held via MS Teams, please complete this form

https://forms.office.com/e/DQcWqw7LNR

Following the market engagement exercise and ratification of the procurement strategy, a PCR2015 compliant procedure will be undertaken to appoint suitably qualified supplier(s) for the provision of the identified requirements.

Additional information:

Interested parties will not be prejudiced by any response or failure to respond to this Early Engagement Notice. Nor shall a response to this Early Engagement Notice guarantee an invitation to participate in any future procurement process that National Highways may conduct. This Early Engagement Notice does not constitute a call for competition to procure any works or services and is not published to reduce time limited for the receipt of tenders. National Highways is not bound to accept any proposals offered.

National Highways is not liable for any costs, fees or expenses incurred by any party responding to this Early Engagement Notice or any party who may participate in any future procurement process. In the event that National Highways decides to proceed with any procurement, it is currently assumed that such procurement will be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 unless any legal requirement requires a different procedure to be adopted.

This Early Engagement Notice does not constitute any commitment by National Highways to undertake any public procurement exercise for Lower Thames Crossing.