Official UK procurement notice
2025 ERA External Regulatory Assurance (2025 0191- WS3202969892)
Authority: Anglian Water Services (Public body)
What is being bought3 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionLot 1 – Technical Assurance
. Engineering design and technical scope
. Optioneering and option-selection processes
. Alignment between need, scope, solution and outcomes
. Deliverability and programme milestones
. Asset-management evidence and decision-making
. Risk registers and technical risk assessments
. Scope changes and change-control processes
. Data lineage, data quality and evidence trails
. Consistency with PR24 submissions, previous regulatory submissions and agreed assumptions
. Environmental, statutory and regulatory drivers
. Dependencies between schemes, programmes and strategic plans
. The completeness, accuracy and robustness of technical evidence used to support Board and regulatory submissions
Lot 2 – Cost & Efficiency Assurance
. Cost-estimating methodologies
. Unit rates and cost build-up assumptions
. Comparative cost assessment and benchmarking including a range of econometric techniques
. Cost drivers and explanatory factors
. Risk, uncertainty and optimism-bias allowances
. Scope-cost alignment
. Allocation between base and enhancement expenditure
. Cost escalation and inflation assumptions
. Change control and change-control processes
. Including, but not limited to checking Stata code and excel packages
. Material movements from PR24 assumptions or other established benchmarks
. Evidence quality and auditability
. Consistency between costs, identified needs, benefits and expected outcomes
Lot 3 – Financial Assurance
. PR29 financial data tables and associated working papers
. Anglian’s use of Ofwat’s financial model
. Feeder models used to populate Ofwat’s financial model
. Financial model controls, including version control, formula integrity, change control, access control, input checks and output reconciliations
. Documented processes for preparing, reviewing, approving and submitting financial information
. Data lineage from source systems, working papers and feeder models through to final submission tables
. Consistency between financial data tables, the financial model, business plan narrative, Board papers and assurance statements
. Financial assumptions, including inflation, interest rates, dividend assumptions, gearing, PAYG, RCV run-off and other relevant financial parameters
. Financeability assessments using both actual and notional capital structures
. Calculation and presentation of relevant financial ratios
. Economic and company-specific scenarios, including the treatment of the CPI/RPI wedge where relevant
. Sensitivity testing and downside scenarios
. Evidence supporting key assumptions and judgements
. The adequacy of commentary explaining material movements, uncertainty, judgement and links to the wider plan
- How the procedure runs: Anglian Water Services is undertaking a Procurement Exercise to assess Bids for External Regulatory Assurance providers, as more fully described in the tender documents. Requirement is in lots as per ; Lot 1 - Technical Lot 2 - Cost & Efficiency Lot 3 - Financial Current Timeline - RFI : 10th July 2026 - 21st August 2026 RFP : 15th September 2026 - 7th October 2026 Award : December 2026 Stages - Stage 1a: Request For Information (RFI) 1b: Supplier Risk Event Stage 2: Request For Proposal (RFP): Stage 3: Contract Award RFI Shortlisting - Responses will be evaluated by Anglian Water and only Bidders notified that they have been short-listed to progress to the next stage should complete the RFP. Bidder RFI responses will be evaluated by Anglian Water against pre-defined scoring criteria detailed below and the three highest scoring bidders will be shortlisted to RFP. The information in this notice is accurate at the time of publication. Any changes will be notified to participants at the relevant time.
CPV: Business and management consultancy services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Closed framework
- Call-offs
- call-offs may be awarded directly or by further competition
- Framework period
- 9 yrs 3 mo from 4 Jan 2027
Published description of the framework
Any requirement for lot 1 and 2 will be awarded on a mini-comp basis.
As and when there is a requirement for either lot, Anglian Water will follow the below process;
. The Regulation team will email all the dedicated contacts (as provided by each successful bidder) detailing the requirement, the required output and the deadline for completion of work – as well as highlighting when the response is required by. We aim to give no less than 5 working days for a mini-comp response.
. The interested parties will then email back a formal quote providing a fixed cost, based on the agreed rates in the contract Anglian Water will assess each quote and award to the appropriate supplier, based on;
. Team expertise and knowledge
. Mobilisation
. Cost
Lot 3 has a framework agreement but is single supplier and work will be directly award to the successful bidder.
Lots and requirements (3)Procurement structure
3 lots · all with a published valueEvery one of these 3 lots carries the same published figure, £3,850,000: it is the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each lot's own budget, and no share per lot is published. The cards below say ceiling above rather than repeat it.
Lot #1Technical Assuranceceiling above
Technical - as described in the tender documents
Lot #2Cost & Efficiencyceiling above
Cost & Efficiency - as described in the tender documents
Lot #3Financialceiling above
Financial - as described in the tender documents
What it takes to wini
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).
- “2025 ERA External Regulatory Assurance (2025 0191- WS3202969892)” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract: call-offs may be direct or by further competition.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 17 Jul 2026, 18:27 BST
- Last source update
- 17 Jul 2026, 18:27 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 3 Dec 2026
- Authority reference
2025 0191 - WS3202969892- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-068010- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ce51Find a Tender
- How it runs
Anglian Water Services is undertaking a Procurement Exercise to assess Bids for External Regulatory Assurance providers, as more fully described in the tender documents.
Requirement is in lots as per ;
Lot 1 - Technical
Lot 2 - Cost & Efficiency
Lot 3 - Financial
Current Timeline -
RFI : 10th July 2026 - 21st August 2026
RFP : 15th September 2026 - 7th October 2026
Award : December 2026
Stages -
Stage 1a: Request For Information (RFI)
1b: Supplier Risk Event
Stage 2: Request For Proposal (RFP):
Stage 3: Contract Award
RFI Shortlisting -
Responses will be evaluated by Anglian Water and only Bidders notified that they have
been short-listed to progress to the next stage should complete the RFP. Bidder RFI
responses will be evaluated by Anglian Water against pre-defined scoring criteria detailed
below and the three highest scoring bidders will be shortlisted to RFP.
The information in this notice is accurate at the time of publication. Any changes will be
notified to participants at the relevant time.
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 21 Aug 2026, 23:00 BST
- Appointment period ends
- 21 Aug 2026, 23:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 31 Jul 2026, 23:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
17 Jul 2026 → 4 Jan 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published99 days ago17 Jul 2026, 18:27 BST
- Clarification questions by85 days ago31 Jul 2026, 23:00 BST
- Admission / appointment period ends64 days ago · period end, not a bid countdown21 Aug 2026, 23:00 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Award decision expected byin 40 days3 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 71 days4 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published17 Jul 2026, 18:27 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications
- Bidding documents and specificationsAccess: Through the RFI & RFP Ariba event platform
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender