Palantir gets £21m from Britain’s grid operator, no competition
Britain’s publicly owned energy system operator has handed Palantir a £21.2m contract with no competition. The justification it filed is a plain description of why leaving will be difficult.
Lindsay Clark reported the award for The Register on Tuesday. The underlying transparency notice sits on Find a Tender. It went up on 26 August.
The National Energy System Operator runs two processes on Palantir’s Foundry platform, Connections and Skip Rates. The contract covers licensing and support for both. It is worth £17,700,270 before VAT and £21,240,324 with it. The term runs from Tuesday until 31 July 2027.
The legal basis and what it says
NESO used a direct award under Section 41 of the Procurement Act 2023, relying on paragraph 6 of Schedule 5. That paragraph covers the absence of competition for technical reasons.
The notice explains why. Foundry rests on “proprietary architecture licensed exclusively by Palantir”. The company,...
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