Official UK procurement notice
Purchase and Supply of Electricity
Authority: SOUTH WEST WATER LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSouth West Water Limited is seeking (on behalf of itself and other subsidiaries within the Pennon Group from time to time) to enter into a framework with a single supplier for the flexible supply and management of electricity to both regulated utilities and other subsidiary entities within the Pennon Group for a five year period from 1 April 2027 to 31 March 2032. The ability to forward purchase volumes as part of the Group hedging strategy is required in the time preceding this period.
The Pennon Group is a large consumer of energy across a portfolio of c. 2500 sites with a range of connections. The Pennon Group's sites provide drinking water and sewerage services to customers within Devon and Cornwall with additional drinking water only services to customers around Bristol, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Sutton and East Surrey.
Current annual supply volumes are c. 450 GWh and it is anticipated that this will increase over the term of the framework due to growth in treatment quality and served population and also potential investments/acquisitions. At the time of this notice, the current subsidiary entities within the Pennon Group whose sites will covered by this procurement are South West Water Limited, Sutton and East Surrey Water plc, but bidders should note that this list of contracting entities which may call off supplies under this framework may change and/or increase over time in the event of further investments/acquisitions by the Pennon Group and/or any group restructuring.
CPV: Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 1 suppliers
The lotProcurement structure
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Purchase and Supply of Electricity” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 1 suppliers, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 21 Jan 2025, 09:53 GMT
- Last source update
- 30 Sept 2025, 09:40 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-060737- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04d4e8Find a Tender
Publisher note: This procurement is being conducted under regulation 47 of the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016, utilising the Negotiated Procedure with prior call for competition and will only be available through the Pennon Supplier Portal. Interested parties should note that this procurement may not result in the award of any contract, and issue of this Contract Notice does not create any form of contract, implied or otherwise, between South West Water Limited and any other party, and that participation in procurement process is entirely at potential suppliers' own risk.
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 4 Feb 2025, 10:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Supplier levy on call-offs (max %)
- document
Timeline
4 Feb 2025 → 30 Sept 2025 · 2 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown4 Feb 2025, 10:00 GMT
- Notice published392 days ago30 Sept 2025, 09:40 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete30 Sept 2025, 09:40 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates; the JSON mirror lists them.
Contracts
Contract 060737-2025-1
- Signed
- 12 Sept 2025
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of England and WalesReview body
- TBCReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.