National Grid
Vendor Selection
National Grid, an international energy delivery company with over 3 million electrical power customers in the U.S., uses Decision Lens proven technology and process to guide investments in new power transmission and delivery systems. Decision Lens "acquisition planning" framework combines the needs of multiple stakeholders into one comprehensive evaluation model with criteria, and using the judgments of the team, prioritizes the importance of each objective in selecting the vendor. Those priorities are used to evaluate the vendors, with specific comments provisioned as relative "strengths" or "weaknesses" of each vendor against each criterion. The final result was a quantified "best value" score among the vendors, with "what-if" analyses that were performed to ensure the team had made the right decision.
