The Water Services Regulation Authority: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Non-ministerial department·Central government·West Midlands·Birmingham·Ran 1 procurement for other authorities
Official UK PPONPPCX-7855-VXBTWebsiteofwat.gov.uk ↗
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
37 awarded tenders, 32 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting4 procedures · 10%73 Research and development services1 procedures · 3%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 39 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 100% (39 notices)
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
- Direct award 69% (27 notices)
- Limited / restricted 21% (8 notices)
- Open 5% (2 notices)
- Route not published 5% (2 notices)
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 39 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Moorhouse Consulting Limited | 3 | 8.1% | 3 | 3 | 9 Jul 2026 |
| HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED | 2 | 5.4% | 2 | 2 | 31 Jul 2026 |
| HR Wallingford Ltd | 2 | 5.4% | 2 | 2 | 12 Jan 2026 |
| Michael Page International Recruitment Limited | 2 | 5.4% | 2 | 2 | 27 May 2026 |
| L.E.K. CONSULTING LLP | 1 | 2.7% | 1 | 2 | 28 Apr 2026 |
| FTI Consulting LLP | 1 | 2.7% | 1 | 2 | 16 Oct 2025 |
| Softcat Plc | 1 | 2.7% | 1 | 1 | 31 Jul 2026 |
| KPMG | 1 | 2.7% | 1 | 1 | 19 Jun 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 37 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 32 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Independent Monitor | L.E.K. CONSULTING LLP | — | — | £7,500,000 † |
| Independent Monitor | L.E.K. CONSULTING LLP | — | — | £3,000,000 † |
| System Consultancy | Wayne Holdings No.3 Ltd | — | 7 mo | £171,168 † |
| Interim support for Credit and Collateral Arrangements (CCA) Review | Edge Economic Consulting Ltd | — | 5 mo | £169,904 † |
| Website Maintenance | JAMES BLAKE SOLUTIONS LTD | — | 1 yrs | £140,000 † ≈ £140k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 36 of 39 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Interim Finance Accountant | HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED | 30 Oct 2026 | £33,000 |
| Financial Accounting review | GRANT THORNTON UK LLP | 30 Oct 2026 | £30,000 |
| Major Water Infrastructure Programme (MWIP) - Programmatic Delivery and Opportunity Assessment | Allora Infrastructure Limited | 31 Oct 2026 | £100,000 |
| Interim Accountant Assistant | Michael Page International Recruitment Limited | 17 Nov 2026 | £38,960 |
| Interim Finance Leadership Support | HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED | 27 Nov 2026 | £138,924 |
| Accounting Support | GRANT THORNTON UK ADVISORY & TAX LLP | 30 Nov 2026 | £17,500 |
| Insight Report Pilot Studies | Diem Analytics Limited | 31 Jan 2027 | £16,474 |
| Meeting Room and Personal Space Booking Solution | Eptura International Limited | 28 Feb 2027 | £97,357 |
| Learning and Development Licenses | 15 May 2027 | £42,900 | |
| Website Maintenance | JAMES BLAKE SOLUTIONS LTD | 31 Jul 2027 | £140,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 45 of 39 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Ofwat Innovation Fund delivery partner 2025-30Public utilities | Awarded / complete | 15 May 2025 | — |
| Price Review 2024 Professional services – Prior Information NoticePublic utilities | Planned | 1 Jul 2022 | £1,000,000 |
| Resource Booking System (Hosted)Information technology services | Awarded / complete | 15 Feb 2022 | — |
| Ofwat Consultancy FrameworkConsulting services for water-supply and waste consultancy | Awarded / complete | 29 Jun 2021 | — |
| Delivery Partner Support for in-period Outcome Delivery Incentive assessments (ODI’s)Consulting services for water-supply and waste consultancy | Open | 24 Mar 2021 | £1,560,000 |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£18m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 39 award records on 37 procedures (39 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 36 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 36 of 39 published contracts carry a period end; 10 end within 18 months, 8 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (2 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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