Official UK procurement notice
Integrated Platform for Networks
Authority: YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionYW seek an integrated platform as managing separate, disconnected systems for each functionality creates operational inefficiencies, increases the risk of data gaps, and complicates timely decision-making. Having all required capabilities within a single, unified solution ensures a holistic view of the network, seamless data flow between modules, and faster, more effective operational responses.
The integrated platform must deliver all of the following functionalities within a single, unified solution (not as separate modules across different, disconnected systems):
- Blockage Prediction: Identifies early signs of potential blockages within the wastewater network, based on abnormal patterns detected through flow or level data. This enables proactive maintenance to prevent incidents before customer impact or pollution occurs.
- Network Spill Forecasting: Estimates the likelihood of network spills based on rainfall, capacity, and system behaviour. The goal is to trigger early operational interventions to avoid environmental non-compliance and reduce pollution events.
- Pumping Station: Tracks pump activity across the network, identifying underperformance, abnormal operation, or potential failures. This helps improve operational visibility, reduce downtime, and support asset efficiency.
- Customer Sewer Alarm (CSA): Provides alerting mechanisms in customer-facing parts of the network where issues such as blockages or overflows could lead to property flooding. It allows for early warnings before customers are affected using both digital and analog pressure data.
- Burst Rising Main Detection: Assure accurate burst detection to prevent and reduce the impact of pollution from pressurised sewage mains;
- Excess Water Detection: Detects excess water entering the wastewater network from sea, river, ground or misconnected rainwater, causing spills, damage and inefficiencies.
The platform must be fully developed and commercially available. For clarity this means the product is not in early-stage development, not unproven, and not awaiting first deployment or first operational results.
The solution must have already demonstrated successful outcomes with other water companies, preferably within the UK and particularly with other WASCs.
The platform must be capable of integrating with core utility systems (e.g., SCADA, telemetry, SAP, GIS) and must meet minimum interoperability requirements to interpret data from devices and sensors currently deployed in our network.
CPV: Industrial control software package · Information technology services · Sewage services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Sept 2025, 16:48 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Oct 2025, 16:45 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-069876- Latest notice
- Transparency notice (UK5)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0598eaFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
Yorkshire Water conducted a market engagement exercise, for which a Market Engagement Notice (2025/S 000-055964) dated 11 September 2025 was published, to which 10 companies submitted responses.
This market engagement exercise was carried out to understand whether there were suppliers capable of delivering a single, fully-integrated platform covering the six required functionalities/modules (blockage prediction, network spill forecasting, pumping station, customer sewer alarm, burst rising main detection and excess water detection). The solution needed to be commercially available, already deployed with proven outcomes in other water companies (particularly UK WASCs) and ready for immediate use rather than still in development or awaiting first implementation. This is as Yorkshire Water are prioritising mitigation of the risks in implementation and risks of poor outcomes.
The engagement demonstrated that no supplier, other than the proposed contractor, was able to provide all required capabilities within one integrated platform with proven operational benefits. Other suppliers could only offer partial coverage, standalone modules, solutions still under development, or platforms without sufficient evidence of successful implementation in comparable UK networks. As a result, a competitive tendering process would not generate genuine competition.
For these reasons, a direct award is justified a feasible route to securing the required integrated solution with proven performance, interoperability with our systems, and readiness for deployment.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Sept 2025 → 1 Mar 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published11 Sept 2025, 16:48 BST
- Market engagement396 days ago25 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
Yorkshire Water is undertaking a market engagement exercise in relation to the potential procurement of an integrated digital platform to support wastewater (and potentially water) network operations.
The market engagement will run from 11 September 2025 until 25 September 2025 at 17:00 (UK time).
Suppliers wishing to participate are invited to submit their expressions of interest and access further information by contacting Marta Jalles at marta.jalles@yorkshirewater.co.uk
- Latest notice published361 days ago30 Oct 2025, 16:45 GMT
- Contract starts240 days ago1 Mar 2026
Notice history
5 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 Sept 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Sept 2025, 16:48 BSTUK2
- Transparency notice published30 Oct 2025, 16:45 GMTUK5
- Status changed to complete30 Oct 2025, 16:45 GMT
- Procurement method changed30 Oct 2025, 16:45 GMT
- Contract signature expected1 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| STORMHARVESTER LIMITED1 Dec 2025 – 30 Nov 2028 · up to 30 Nov 2030Extensions: The initial contract term is three years (36 months), with the possibility of extension up to a maximum duration of five years. | £8,000,000 | — | Standstill |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- STORMHARVESTER LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender