Official UK procurement notice
Water Retail Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSevern Trent Water is looking to appoint a suitable, qualified and experienced licensed water retailer to provide water and wastewater retail services for its eligible non-household sites in England. Through this procurement, Severn Trent Water intends to consolidate its eligible portfolio into a contracted single-retailer arrangement. The objective is to achieve greater consistency, improve portfolio visibility, simplify administration and payment processes, enhance billing accuracy and establish a more effective account management and governance structure. The successful bidder will be expected to provide the full range of water retail services and support the transfer of eligible supply points from the incumbent retailers.
The requirement currently covers approximately 250 non-household sites across England and Wales. The final portfolio may change during the procurement and mobilisation periods as sites are added, removed, validated or confirmed as eligible. The proposed initial contract term is three years, covering the period 2027 to 2030, with an option to extend subject to satisfactory performance, ongoing requirements and the agreed contractual provisions. The planned contract commencement date is 1 June 2027.
CPV: Consulting services for water-supply and waste consultancy · Water distribution and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED buys Water distribution and related services (CPV 6510), and who usually turns up
SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Water distribution and related services (CPV 6510) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 60 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid17% / 27%
2–30% / 9%
4–650% / 27%
7+33% / 36%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate29%
Within ±2%57%
Above estimate14%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 6510Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 11 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid27%
2–39%
4–627%
7+36%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 Oct 2026, 14:42 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Oct 2026, 14:42 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-101098- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-079054Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 Oct 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published12h ago26 Oct 2026, 14:42 GMT
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 13 days9 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Market engagementin 13 days9 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Expressions of interest can be submitted via email to Nishtha Ganotra on nishtha.ganotra@severntrent.co.uk with the subject line 'Water Retail Services Tender- Expression of Interest'.
STW will answer clarification questions related to this tender.
All questions and queries should be sent through the online tendering system of SAP Ariba, through the messaging facility.
The deadline to submit clarifications is 16:00 hrs on the 04.01.2027. To ensure all Suppliers are treated equally, STW will publish all clarifications received from Suppliers, together with STW’s answers (but not the source of the questions).
- Contract startsin 216 days1 Jun 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 Oct 2026, 14:42 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender