Official UK procurement notice
Pool & Rain Water Recovery System
Authority: Cambridge City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCambridge City Council (CCC) want to install (not maintain) Pwlltech's pool water recovery system, and other components necessary to support their installation, at Parkside, Abbey and King's Hedges pools. At Parkside, the supplier will also provide rainwater harvesting which would be filtered and then routed through the pool water recovery system in place of mains water to reduce the mains water used. This is for the Water Scarcity Project driven by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), who are providing grant funding for the whole project value.
This installation will save up to 90% of the pool water normally discarded to drain and save the energy used to heat replacement mains water.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- 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
- 27 Feb 2026, 15:34 GMT
- Last source update
- 27 Feb 2026, 16:09 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-018113- Latest notice
- Contract award notice (UK6)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065ea8Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
There is no known equivalent pool water recovery system on the market and Sterling Hydrotech have a contract for supply from the manufacturer.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Feb 2026 → 10 Mar 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published242 days ago27 Feb 2026, 16:09 GMT
- Standstill ends230 days ago10 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Feb 2026- Transparency notice published27 Feb 2026, 15:34 GMTUK5
- Contract award notice published27 Feb 2026, 16:09 GMTUK6
- Contract signature expected11 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling Hydrotech ltd11 Mar 2026 – 1 Aug 2026 | £423,520 | 27 Feb 2026standstill to 10 Mar 2026 | Standstill |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- STERLING HYDROTECH LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender