Official UK procurement notice
Bankable Wind Date · UK public procurement notice
Authority: YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionYorkshire Water (YW) and Kelda are seeking to engage the market to discuss their planned deployment of new on-shore wind turbines - specifically regarding bankable wind data without the requirement for 12 month Met Mast or LiDAR campaigns. Work done to date indicates deployments of 1-3 turbines at each location, with 7 sites under consideration initially plus 2 repowering sites. As YW and Kelda look to expand this programme, they anticipate a small scale wind development programme in addition.
The deployments would be on YW operational land and would directly power the adjacent operational site, offsetting grid purchased power.
The purpose of this notice is to open discussion with wind data analysts, modellers and providers. We would like to work with wind data specialists with a proven track record of securing wind turbine project finance having used modelled wind data, processed into a bankable format, without a 12 month LiDAR or Met Mast campaign. Data must include:
- Annual Average(mean) wind speed (at hub height)
- Once in 50 years 3 seconds maximum wind gust
- Weibull Shape factor k
- Wind shear index IEC alpha
- Characteristic turbulence at 15m/s, or the full turbulence graph
- Wind farm output at P50/P90 levels (gross and net yield)
The following can be provided:
- Wind turbine locations
- Wind turbines hub heights
- Wind turbine makes and models
- Any other relevant data
YW and Kelda are looking to partner with a single data provider who can provide bankable wind data which will be used for accurate financial modelling and securing project finance.
CPV: Weather-forecasting services · Wind surface observing apparatus
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED buys Meteorological instruments (CPV 3812), and who usually turns up
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Lot #1CPV 3812Estimate not published
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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
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 31 Mar 2026, 20:58 BST
- Last source update
- 31 Mar 2026, 20:58 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-030057- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067a1cFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
31 Mar 2026 → 1 Jul 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published203 days ago31 Mar 2026, 20:58 BST
- Market engagement165 days ago8 May 2026, 23:59 BST
If you are interested in taking part in this pre-market engagement please email [email protected] with the subject line "Bankable Wind Data PME"
In the email please include your company details and if possible examples of your data being used to securing project finance in the UK.
We may look to advance the PME by hold meetings to discuss what is available to us and the mechanics for delivery. This will update our market intelligence prior to any tendering activity however this is not guaranteed nor is there any guarantee of tendering activity post closure of this engagement period.
- Contract starts112 days ago1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published31 Mar 2026, 20:58 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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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