Nine contractors have been named on the National Grid’s £1.5bn RIIO-2 Electricity Construction EPC framework.

The five-year framework relates to design, engineering, manufacture, supply, project management, construction, erection and commissioning in respect of overhead lines, undergrounding and/or substation works.

Balfour Beatty is the only company to have made it on to all three lots:

Lot 1 ( Overhead Lines)

  • Babcock Networks
  • Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions
  • Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure

Lot 2 (Undergrounding)

  • Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions
  • Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure
  • Murphy Power Networks
  • VolkerInfra

Lot 3 (Substations)

  • Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions
  • Morrison Utility Services & Jacobs UK Unincorporated Joint Venture
  • VINCI Construction & Omexom Unincorporated Joint Venture
  • Murphy Power Networks
  • Linxon UK
  • Burns & McDonnell (UK) Europe