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# 2025 ERA External Regulatory Assurance (2025 0191- WS3202969892)

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-era-external-regulatory-assurance-2025-0191-ws3202969892-ocds-h6vhtk-06ce51). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Anglian Water Services: "2025 ERA External Regulatory Assurance (2025 0191- WS3202969892)". Published status: active. Framework Ceiling: £3,850,000. 3 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 21 Aug 2026, 23:00 BST. Published submission portal: eu.mu.ariba.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Anglian Water Services](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/anglian-water-services-coh-02366656)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** £3,850,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 21 August 2026 at 23:00 BST
- **Lots:** 3
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive flexible procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Business and management consultancy services
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 4 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-era-external-regulatory-assurance-2025-0191-ws3202969892-ocds-h6vhtk-06ce51#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-06ce51`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-era-external-regulatory-assurance-2025-0191-ws3202969892-ocds-h6vhtk-06ce51#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [eu.mu.ariba.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Feu.mu.ariba.com%2Fuav%2Fproject%2F%3Ftoken%3D08aea1d7-9c23-4f4a-b634-9408ee7780e1)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-era-external-regulatory-assurance-2025-0191-ws3202969892-ocds-h6vhtk-06ce51#participate

## Description
Lot 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

## Lots (3)
### Lot LOT-0001: Technical Assurance
- **Lot id:** `LOT-0001`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 79410000

- **Estimated Value:** £3,850,000
- **Description:** Technical - as described in the tender documents
- **Contract Period:** 04/01/2027 to 31/03/2036

### Lot LOT-0002: Cost & Efficiency
- **Lot id:** `LOT-0002`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 79410000

- **Estimated Value:** £3,850,000
- **Description:** Cost & Efficiency - as described in the tender documents
- **Contract Period:** 04/01/2027 to 31/03/2036

### Lot LOT-0003: Financial
- **Lot id:** `LOT-0003`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 79410000

- **Estimated Value:** £3,850,000
- **Description:** Financial - as described in the tender documents
- **Contract Period:** 04/01/2027 to 31/03/2036

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F068010-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-07-17T17:27:08.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T05:05:24.542Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-06ce51